Pre-Conference Competitions

We invite everyone with a flair for regional anaesthesia to put their best needle forward. Send us a 30-40 second video clip of your block and show of those fine needling skills.

Rules:

• 1. Video length - 30 - 40 seconds
• 2. No screen recordings; must be downloaded from the ultrasound machine
• 3. The video should not have any music, title, patient identifiers, or arrows/markings.
• 4. NO NAMES TO BE DISPLAYED ON VIDEO OR THE FILE NAME. This conception will be blinded to avoid bias. Any names/institute identifiers will be disqualified.
• 5. The video is to be submitted to aora2025amritsar@gmail.com as an attachment of size less than 25 mb
• 6. The body of the email should contain the following details:
  • Patient age, weight, height
  • Surgery and procedure details
  • Block and approach
  • Needle used
  • Orient the video (eg. left is medial, right is caudal, needle direction is caudal to cephalad)
  • Name, designation, and institute of the performer
• 7. The email subject title should include the competition name and month only. For eg: Block Master video - May - Dr. ____________
• 8. Only one entry from person. Multiple entries via different email IDs will not be entertained
• 9. Entries via email submission only
• 10. Deadline for the First month entry is May 31st
• Judging Criteria
• Does the block being performed align with the surgery?
• How apparent is the block being performed, without any context, purely from the video?
• Needling skills
• Target site coverage by local anaesthetic
• We will be running this competition for 3 months, and we will have 3 grand winners.
• Kindly send in your entries to aora2025amritsar@gmail.com
• For Queries
• Dr. Vedhika Shanker - +91-9791016897
• Dr. Shilpa Bhat - +91 95913 29916
• Submission for the first month deadline - May 31st
• Click here for step-by-step guide on how to save your block videos
• One winner will be selected each month and will be awarded a 50% rebate on registration fees for the BIGGEST Regional Anesthesia conclave of the year – AORA 2025.
• Winners will also receive a certificate at the main conference.
• The first 40 participants’ entries will be accepted
• So? What are you waiting for? Put your local anaesthetic where you Nerve is!