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Introduction
Cardiac anaesthesia services are provided for patients undergoing cardiac procedures. To reflect current practice, these guidelines have been more clearly divided to identify areas of differing requirement. Anaesthetists in cardiac surgical services are now more frequently required to provide anaesthesia for invasive cardiology procedures in the catheter laboratory. Intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiography is a specialist skill that cardiac anaesthetists are...
Introduction
Thoracic anaesthesia services are provided for patients undergoing thoracic procedures. To reflect current practice, these guidelines have been more clearly divided to identify areas of differing requirement.
Thoracic surgery may include surgery on the lungs (including lung transplantation), pleura, thymus, oesophagus and other thoracic structures, as well as the chest wall. Less invasive video assisted surgery is now mainstream...
Introduction
‘Emergency’ within this chapter applies to anaesthesia that is given in immediate (within minutes of a decision to operate) or urgent (within hours of a decision to operate) procedures as classified by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD).
The provision of emergency anaesthesia differs from elective anaesthesia in that it is required 24/7. The demands...