The Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) scheme has the concept of continuous quality improvement at its heart, and departments who engage with the scheme have to demonstrate this in order to gain and retain accreditation.
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Read the latest letters submitted by members in the January 2023 Bulletin.
Dr John Francis Nunn died after an acute episode of respiratory failure. He had spent the last four years of his life in residential care due to progressive vascular dementia.
Member service is the focus of the first year of our Five-Year Commitment. We want to provide the right services to you at all stages of your career and deliver a programme of improvement so that your experience of the College is the best it can be.
Dennis has an anaesthetic is an online Beano comic strip, developed by the RCoA in partnership with the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Having surgery can be a worrying time for both children and parents and the comic strip aims to add an element of fun and play, while helping children understand what it’s like to have a general anaesthetic and how they can prepare for an operation.
Dr Fiona Donald wishes you all a very Happy New Year and hopes you were able to find some time to rest and recharge with friends and family over the the holidays.
A new year signals a new Editor for the Bulletin, and it gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to the January 2023 edition. As I write this, the UK’s NHS is experiencing winter pressures, nurse strike action seems imminent, purple seems the new black in terms of hospital bed status, and elective surgical recovery targets seem an insurmountable challenge.
Mrs Shivalkar was a 78-year-old patient with debilitating co-morbidities scheduled for elective revision hip surgery at a stand-alone surgical unit without Level 2 or 3 care facilities. The surgical procedure was prolonged, and intraoperatively there was prolonged significant hypotension. In recovery this hypotension continued, but despite this the patient was discharged to the ward, where she sustained cardiac arrest.
This anonymous author gives their perspective on working with neurodiversity and the importance of building knowledge and raising awareness about neurodiversity in anaesthesia.
The FICM’s Careers, Recruitment and Workforce Committee has been seeking as much data as possible regarding the staffing of ICUs in the UK.