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The recommended Association of Anaesthetist standards of anaesthetic monitoring should be met for every patient.39

Equipment to comply with the Association of Anaesthetists standards for anaesthetic monitoring should be available.¹¹

Equipment that complies with Association of Anaesthetists standards for anaesthetic monitoring should be available.¹³

All anaesthetists in training should be appropriately clinically supervised at all times.⁵²

Wherever possible, anaesthesia in remote ophthalmic surgical sites should be delivered by appropriately experienced consultant anaesthetists. Where a trainee or non-consultant grade is required to provide anaesthetic services at a remote site, the recommendations of the Royal College of Anaesthetists should be followed.¹⁰

The anaesthetist should be with the patient at all times while the patient is under anaesthesia. In hospitals employing AAs, this responsibility may be delegated to a AAs, supervised by a consultant anaesthetist in accordance with the scope of practice for AAs.^3,4