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An update from the patient information team on new resources to help you meet the challenges of preoperative assessment.
Authors:
- Dr Samantha Black, RCoA Patient Information Lead
- Dr Lucy Connolly, Clinical Trust Fellow, Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Elena Fabbrani, RCoA Patient and Public Involvement Manager
Over the past months, the patient information team has been busy creating new resources and collaborating with a wide range of partners to create innovative content to help you meet the challenges of preoperative assessment.
Helping you ‘make every contact count’
A child presenting for surgery provides an excellent occasion for health promotion, with the results of the PErioperAtive CHildhood obesitY (PEACHY) study showing that 24% of children presenting for surgery are overweight or obese. It has never been more important to address the physical health of children at every opportunity, ‘making every contact count’, especially in light of the surgical backlog and our ever-growing waiting lists that we are all too aware of.
Chapter 10: Guidelines for the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services 2025
All anaesthetists who provide elective or emergency care for infants, children or young adults should have training in advanced life support that covers their expected range of clinical practice and responsibilities.52,53 These competencies should be maintained by annual training that are ideally multidisciplinary and scenario based.54
NHS England (formerly HEE) has published its report of a review into two errors that affected anaesthetics CT1 recruitment in February 2023.
Chapter 17: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Burn and Plastics Surgery 2025
There is a high incidence of ‘awareness’ under sedation and subsequent post-traumatic stress. The anaesthetist should obtain informed consent from the patent before any sedation is administered. This includes using descriptions of levels of sedation from the patient’s perspective.88
After the loss of 100,000 patients to Covid-19, the College and FICM look at how we can re-build the NHS.
This article tells us why increasing support for SAS anaesthetists will cultivate a more resilient and skilled workforce, fostering enhanced patient care and organisational success.
SAS doctors play a pivotal role within the anaesthetic workforce, and it is imperative for organisations to establish robust support structures to nurture their professional development. Unlocking the full potential of each SAS doctor not only benefits them personally, but also augments the services they provide and ultimately enhances patient care.
SAS doctors are crucial in anaesthesia, necessitating robust support structures for their growth. Unleashing their potential both benefits them personally and enhances patient care. Vital support includes that of an SAS tutor, a trust local negotiating committee representative, and an SAS advocate. The Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services (GPAS) define exemplary departments and highlight non-clinical attributes vital for success. Notably, roles like ‘SAS clinical lead’ and ‘SAS mentor’ empower SAS doctors for self-determined career paths.