Hospitals should have systems in place to facilitate multidisciplinary Morbidity and Mortality meetings. ...
Hospitals should have systems in place to facilitate multidisciplinary Morbidity and Mortality meetings.
Hospitals should have systems in place to facilitate multidisciplinary Morbidity and Mortality meetings.
There should be a multidisciplinary programme for auditing intraoperative care.
There should be a system in place to allow reporting and regular audit of critical incidents and near misses.
Anaesthetists should be involved in audit and quality improvement cycles, preferably using a ‘rapid cycle’ quality improvement approach. This approach benchmarks standards of care, and may be an effective change driver. It is also an excellent way of providing evidence of good practice as defined by the GMC, and mapping the contribution that individuals make to any service within their...
Policies for the management of children in accordance with chapter 10 should be held wherever children are anaesthetised or sedated.80
Access to paperless guidelines through a readily available hospital intranet repository is encouraged.
Information to patients should include what to expect in the anaesthetic room and operating theatre.86
Patients from non-English speaking groups may need interpreters. Hospitals should have arrangements in place to provide language support, including interpretation and translation (including sign language and Braille).This information should comply with the NHS England ‘Accessible information Standard’.87 Patients with learning and other difficulties may need special assistance and consideration.
Hospitals admitting emergency surgical patients should provide, at all times, a dedicated, fully staffed, operating theatre appropriate to the clinical workload that they accept. There should be provision to increase resources if necessary to manage fluctuating work load demands and still provide an acceptable standard of care.13,33,42