For Professionals
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
These questions have been received from patients, healthcare workers and others.
| Question 1 Does the College have any guidance on the use of sedation by non-anaesthetists? |
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| Question 2 How would an anaesthetist make the choice between using total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) and inhalational anaesthesia? How is the propensity to use each method changing over time? |
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| Question 3 What is the risk to health from exposure to anaesthetics? What advice would the College give when pregnant nursing or theatre staff refuse to work because they are worried about the risk of exposure to anaesthetics? |
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| Question 4 Is there a lower age limit for administering a general anaesthetic to children in district hospitals? |
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| Question 5 What grades of staff should assist the anaesthetist and what specific qualifications do they require? |
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| Question 6 Does the RCoA consider that the CCT in anaesthesia and specialist register status indicate that a consultant anaesthetist has undertaken appropriate ALS training, or does this have to be supplemented by a commercial (UK Resuscitation Council) ALS course? |
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| Question 7 I am due to have two anaesthetics within a very short time. Is there an increased risk in having two anaesthetics close together? |
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| Question 8 A relative recently developed a problem with breathing after an operation and was told that she had suxamethonium apnoea. What is this condition, is it inherited, and should we be tested for it? |
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This page last updated on 24/05/2010