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All anaesthetic equipment should be checked before use in accordance with the Association of Anaesthetists published guidelines.¹² Anaesthetic machine checks should be recorded in a log and on the anaesthetic chart.

The anaesthetist accompanying transferred patients from the ED should be suitably skilled and experienced to manage all eventualities in an isolated environment and should be accompanied by a dedicated trained assistant.³⁹

General anaesthesia for dentistry should be administered only by anaesthetists in a hospital setting as defined by the Department of Health report reviewing general anaesthesia and conscious sedation in primary dental care.⁵⁴

In an emergency situation involving a child requiring anaesthesia for an airway or head and neck procedure, the most experienced available anaesthetist and surgeon would be expected to provide life-saving care when transfer to a specialist facility is not feasible.

General anaesthesia for dental procedures should be administered only by anaesthetists in a hospital setting as defined by the Department of Health report reviewing general anaesthesia and conscious sedation in primary dental care.³

The anaesthetist plays a key role in the multidisciplinary team who apart from being involved in airway management in major trauma patients, should provide input into the recognition and management of acute physiological derangement, haemorrhage, and shock.

All patients undergoing anaesthesia should be under the care of an autonomously practising anaesthetist whose name is recorded as part of the anaesthetic record.^4,95

Anaesthetists providing anaesthesia for trauma and orthopaedic surgery should learn and maintain expertise in a wide range of regional anaesthetic techniques, including central and peripheral neural blockade.⁹⁶

Anaesthetists who do not have regular children’s lists but who do have both daytime and out of hours responsibility for providing care for children requiring emergency surgery should maintain appropriate clinical knowledge and skills.

All anaesthetic equipment should be checked prior to use in accordance with the Association of Anaesthetists published guidelines.²⁵ Anaesthetic machine checks should be recorded in a logbook and on the anaesthetic chart.