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A recovery or equivalent should be available for each patient at the end of the procedure.

Facilities to allow access to online information, such as electronic patient records, local guidelines and clinical decision aids, should be available.

All patient trolleys should be capable of being tipped into the head-down position and be easily transferrable to the rest of the hospital.¹⁹

Equipment for monitoring should be available at all sites where patients receive anaesthesia or sedation.¹⁰ For patients receiving conscious sedation, this should include pulse oximetry.

Continuous waveform capnography should be available for all patients undergoing general anaesthesia and moderate or deep sedation.^10,11

The anaesthetist should ensure that an adequate supply of oxygen is available before starting any procedure. Many of the sites where anaesthesia is provided outside the main operating theatres do not have piped oxygen; if anaesthesia is provided frequently in such a location, the use of the location should be reviewed or piped oxygen provided. 

Where piped oxygen is available, back-up cylinders should always be available and appropriately stored.

All anaesthetic equipment should be standardised where possible in all areas providing anaesthetic services, including equipment for resuscitation and life support, and such equipment subject to a standardised programme of maintenance.

All staff should be provided with opportunities to familiarise themselves with all equipment by the attendance at documented formal training sessions.

Equipment standards where anaesthesia is planned, including with controlled ventilation, should replicate the facilities available in the main theatre suites as outlined in Chapter 2: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for the Perioperative Care of Elective and Urgent Care Patients and commensurate with local hospital anaesthetic facilities.¹⁹