Dr Jenny Parsons, Consultant Anaesthetist and College Tutor at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, attended the RCoA’s virtual Regional Leads Day on 26 February. Here she explains why the 2021 Curriculum will improve both the trainer and trainee experience.
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Chapter 2: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for the Perioperative Care of Elective and Urgent Care Patients 2025
The patients anaesthetist should retain overall responsibility for the patient during the recovery period and should be readily available for consultation until the patient is able to maintain their own airway, has regained respiratory and cardiovascular stability and is able to communicate, unless this care has been handed over to another named anaesthetist. Where the patient’s anaesthetist is not the...
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The RCoA is committed to ensuring the highest standards of safety for all patients.
Jamie Strachan talks about bullying in the medical workplace and how a culture shift towards kindness could make all the difference.
Chapter 5: Guidelines for the Provision of Emergency Anaesthesia Services 2025
There should be a formalised integrated pathway for non-elective adult general surgical care, which should be patient centred and include:2,5,19,29,40
- a clear diagnostic and management plan made on admission41
- early identification of comorbidities (including diabetes, dementia, cardiac pacemakers and internal defibrillators) and their management according to hospital guidelines
- medicine...
In this second article from his design series, Dr Greig explores how to use colour. Whether you're producing a report or even revising your anaesthetic charts, colour matters.
Whether you are producing a report, a poster, or even revising your hospital’s anaesthetic charts, colour choice is important.
Choosing colours
A colour wheel is a simple tool to help choose colours and shades (Figure 1). Analogous colours are adjacent to one another, and generally combine well. Likewise, complementary colours (those opposite one another) work. Triadic schemes are based on three equally spaced colours, while quadratic schemes use four. Colour combinations found in nature are also considered pleasing.
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A podcast about Neuromuscular blockade.
Dr James Prentis recounts how his pre-assessment work supporting patients in the process of stopping smoking had to adjust due to COVID-19.
The BMA’s ballot of junior doctors in England shows an overwhelming majority in favour of industrial action, beginning with a 72-hour walkout in March. We are not surprised at the strength of feeling expressed by junior doctors through the ballot. We understand only too well the frustration of our members regarding workforce shortages and other factors causing a steady erosion of morale and wellbeing.