Pre-Conference Competitions

The Quarter Hour Enigma Returns

We are re-launching the pre-conference quiz for AORA 2025. Three quizzes, three Sundays across three months, and three grand prize winners!

The stakes? A 50% discount on the registration fee for the BIGGEST regional anaesthesia conference of the year - AORA 2025. Held in the beautiful city of Amritsar, it's the place to be to meet the WHO's who in regional anaesthesia and pain medicine, learn the latest techniques, and so much more.

Give us your 15 minutes and stand a chance to win!

Rules:

Block-Master

📌 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the best blocker, of them all

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!