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Equipment necessary for the formation of a surgical airway, including cricothyroidotomy, should be available.²⁰

Ventilators with advanced ventilatory mode functions should be available.²¹

Equipment to comply with the Association of Anaesthetists standards for anaesthetic monitoring should be available.²³

Pulse-oximetry ear probes should be available.²²

It may be difficult to make the electrocardiogram (ECG) gel electrodes adhere to damaged skin. ECG electrodes could be sited away from the chest22 or could be attached to crocodile clips, surgical staples or steel sutures placed in burned areas.^15,19,24

Invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring should be available for extensive burn debridement and major plastic surgery, to allow the benefits of continuous pressure monitoring, pulse-contour analysis and ease of blood sampling.^15,18,19,24

An arterial blood-gas machine should be immediately available.

Equipment for central venous pressure, core and peripheral temperature, and urinary output monitoring should be available.^25,26

Anaesthetic machines should never be able to supply a hypoxic gas mixture.²⁶

Equipment to measure carbon monoxide levels in blood should be available.¹⁵