Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧

@lotusgav

Generalist anaesthetist. Fingers in many pies. Stoic/humanist Memento mori/carpe diem. 2000 years old and still true… Livinginthepause on instagram

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· 25d

On my into work for the evening. Never gets old watching the heli’s lift. #anaky

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Jun 6

So Mark Rober of YouTube fame lobbed a satellite into orbit and you send crunchlabs a selfie and they’ll transmit it to the satellite and take a piccie so you can have an orbital selfie. So. Frickin. Cool. (Girl14)

A selfie in orbit over earth of my daughter via a crunchlabs satellite.

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· May 12

En vacance. La ville de Montpellier- largely pedestrianised throughout - bloody marvellous!

A glass of French beer backdropped by the centre of the city of Montpellier.

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· May 7

I mean look at this!

Ultrasound image of axillary artery and structures with great imaging and clarity

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· May 5

🤣 #ansky

Anaesthetist slumped in a chair apparently asleep with a warming device across their lap

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Apr 28

Pulled my finger out and stated doing some gastric #POCUS this one looks like the books! (Internet) the first one did not… (on someone else’s phone unfortunately) #ansky

Gastric ultrasound showing classic bullseye image of an empty stomach

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Apr 12

800km drive today. Oof. Radar cruise FTW… woolgoolga pretty stop

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Mar 20

How I feel in the middle of a long day…

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Feb 21

You know when someone says their dog has died and you commiserate, even as a dog owner, but it’s not your dog so you’re not that sad. Well that’s a different when it’s your dog eh. Gosh I’m sad 😔 and yes this is a sympathy seeking post. Flipping dogs don’t live long enough.

Middle aged greying human with greying terrier under his arm - otherwise known as Rocket his fuzzy little pillock

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Feb 6

N+1 this evening #dogs

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Feb 3

Can you see the difference seven hours post block?

Picture of my forearms showing the vasodilator/sympathetic effects of regional Anaesthesia because one arm is warm, red and has fat veins

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Feb 3

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Feb 2

Nervous now…

Hospital blanket, holding bay, window with yellow flowers on a tree

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Feb 1

Arse…

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Jan 29

How was your anaesthetic? HR hit 21 😵‍💫 #Ansky #cardiology

Atria flutter ECG with poor AV conduction leading to a 10 second delayed beat…

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Dec 25

@mooseallain.bsky.social I think this is number 7 for Girl14 😊🎄

Christmas advent colouring sheet. Bigfoot in the forest from worldofmoose.com

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Dec 7

Should be a good day #imagecrafting

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Nov 12

#Movember coming along nicely what-o! au.movember.com

50 year old anaesthetist cultivating a nice moustache for Movember

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Oct 31

Heath Robinson ophthalmic anaesthesia! Subtenon FTW

Eye weight for ocular anaesthesia bolted into a flexible LMA to replace the original device that is no longer available

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 25

#RCoAUpdates worrying signs of CHF

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 25

#RCoAUpdates new NICE guidelines came out a few weeks ago for CHF.

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 25

#RCoAUpdates echo guidelines 2025 - interesting.

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 25

Wow!

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 24

#RCoAUpdates the commercial space era - right up my alley!! Anaesthesia plan in microgravity?! TIVA only! Shelf life of drugs (thio would last a long time 😊) but bubbles in the solution can’t be “tapped” out! But TIVA ketamine is the choice…

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 24

Out last week - surgical techniques affect post op pain

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 24

#RCoAUpdates resource for learning gastric USS c/o @rosiehogg.bsky.social

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 24

#RCoAUpdates airway ultrasound for prediction and planning. We are awful at identifying the cricothhroid membrane… USS is much more accurate

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 24

#RCoAUpdates Lung USS - can answer useful questions

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 24

#RcoAUpdates @rosiehogg.bsky.social next. POCUS and clinical decision making. Gastric USS hot topic - how can it help me?

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧@lotusgav· Sep 23

Hypertension before surgery due for publish soon - continue the ACE and the AT2 DofS. This is a big change in our neck of the woods. Going to be some inertia getting this change thru… #RCoAUpdates