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Chapter 18: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Cardiac and Thoracic Procedures 2021
Fellowship posts should be identified to allow additional training for those who wish to follow a career in cardiac or thoracic anaesthesia to help ensure there are adequate numbers of skilled anaesthetists in the specialty. These should be suitable for trainees who wish to take time out of training programmes, or for those who are post certificate of completion of...
Chapter 6: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Day Surgery 2021
Each DSU should have a clinical director or specialty lead. This will often, but not always, be an anaesthetist with some management experience. The role of the clinical director is to champion the cause of day surgery and ensure that best practice is followed. This role may involve the development of local policies, guidelines and clinical governance and should be...
Anaesthetists with a job plan that includes obstetric anaesthesia must demonstrate ongoing continuing education in obstetric anaesthesia, and continuing professional development as needed for this aspect of their work.104 Hospitals have a responsi...
Anaesthetists with a job plan that includes obstetric anaesthesia must demonstrate ongoing continuing education in obstetric anaesthesia, and continuing professional development as needed for this aspect of their work.104 Hospitals have a responsibility to enable this with local teaching where appropriate, and by facilitating access to other education and training.96,105,106
Elderly patients presenting for elective surgery frequently have pre-existing comorbidities that require careful review and perioperative planning. As such, the preassessment service for elective patients should be consultant led, ideally by anaestheti...
Elderly patients presenting for elective surgery frequently have pre-existing comorbidities that require careful review and perioperative planning. As such, the preassessment service for elective patients should be consultant led, ideally by anaesthetists with an interest in, and appropriate experience in, delivering anaesthetic care to orthopaedic patients.12, 14
All anaesthetists should be fully familiarised with all remote areas of anaesthetic provision, e.g. as part of their induction process, prior to undertaking anaesthetic procedures in that location.56 This should include familiarisation with the layout ...
All anaesthetists should be fully familiarised with all remote areas of anaesthetic provision, e.g. as part of their induction process, prior to undertaking anaesthetic procedures in that location.56 This should include familiarisation with the layout of the hospital and the location of emergency equipment and drugs, access to guidelines and protocols, information on how to summon support/assistance, and assurance...
Chapter 12: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for ENT, Oral Maxillofacial and Dental surgery 2022
In order to maintain the necessary repertoire of skills, consultant anaesthetists and SAS doctors providing a head and neck service should have a regular commitment to the specialty, and adequate time should be made available for them to participate in a range of relevant continuing medical education activities, including simulation, human factors and team training.7,43,44
Chapter 16: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery 2023
There should be multidisciplinary input for the preoperative assessment of high risk patients such as patients with cognitive disorders, chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease.50,65 The anaesthetist should be involved in preoperative optimisation and prehabilitation plans.60,62
Chapter 10: Guidelines for the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services 2024
All anaesthetists who provide elective or emergency care for infants, children or young adults should have training in advanced life support that covers their expected range of clinical practice and responsibilities.51,52 These competencies should be maintained by annual training that are ideally multidisciplinary and scenario based.53
Chapter 10: Guidelines for the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services 2024
All anaesthetists must undertake at least level 2 training in safeguarding/child protection, and must maintain this level of competence by annual updates of current policy and practice and case discussion.59,60 Safeguarding resources to support learning can be found on the RCoA website (www.rcoa.ac.uk/safeguardingplus).