Children should always be managed in accordance with RCoA and Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland recommendations.
The duty anaesthetist should be informed as soon as a woman with a BMI above a locally agreed threshold is admitted.
There should be a nominated anaesthetist responsible for training in regional anaesthesia, with adequate programmed activities allocated for these responsibilities.
Departments of anaesthesia must ensure that a named supervisory consultant is available to all non-consultant anaesthetists, except those non-consultant non-trainee anaesthetists that local governance arrangements have agreed in advance are able to work in those circumstances without consultant supervision, based on the training and experience of the individual doctor and the range and scope of their clinical practice.158 Where...
Whether in a dedicated paediatric neurosurgical unit or not, every child requiring elective neurosurgery should have care delivered by an anaesthetist or anaesthetists who possess the relevant competencies as demanded by the patient’s age, disease and comorbidities.
Anaesthetists with a specific interest in orthopaedics and trauma should deliver regular theatre sessions to ensure the maintenance of their skills and experience.
Patients undergoing sedation or general anaesthesia by an anaesthetist should have appropriate preoperative assessment with appropriate risk stratification.
