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Chapter 9: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for an Obstetric Population 2025
The lead obstetric anaesthetist should audit and monitor the duty anaesthetist’s workload to ensure that there is sufficient provision within the unit. Senior management should be made aware of any deficiencies found.
Chapter 2: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for the Perioperative Care of Elective and Urgent Care Patients 2025
The patients anaesthetist should retain overall responsibility for the patient during the recovery period and should be readily available for consultation until the patient is able to maintain their own airway, has regained respiratory and cardiovascular stability and is able to communicate, unless this care has been handed over to another named anaesthetist. Where the patient’s anaesthetist is not the...
Chapter 5: Guidelines for the Provision of Emergency Anaesthesia Services 2025
There should be a formalised integrated pathway for non-elective adult general surgical care, which should be patient centred and include:2,5,19,29,40
- a clear diagnostic and management plan made on admission41
- early identification of comorbidities (including diabetes, dementia, cardiac pacemakers and internal defibrillators) and their management according to hospital guidelines
- medicine...