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Winter can be hard for many of us, with the combination of longer nights, shorter days and the rounds of respiratory infections that come our way.
It can help to think of wellbeing as a balance between restorative and protective activities and those activities that are draining or reinvigorating. These are, of course, different for each of us and so the best person to advise you on what works for you is yourself. That said, there are some simple steps that are likely to pay real dividends and help you thrive through the long dark winter months.
Chapter 10: Guidelines for the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services 2025
Hospitals should engage with networks to develop agreed standard patient care pathways based on age, comorbidity and complexity of procedure, as well as clinical urgency. There should be multidirectional flow of patients within the care pathways as part of the ODN determined by patient needs to local service provision, staffing and geography.
Chapter 17: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Burn and Plastics Surgery 2025
A dedicated burns theatre should be adequately stocked and resourced. Theatre anaesthetic equipment and transport monitoring should be compatible with that used in the critical care rooms. Single use patient items are preferred, and protocol based cleaning is needed between cases.19
Planning and implementing one of the new special interest areas (SIAs) available from the 2021 curriculum: a trainee’s and trainer’s perspective.