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Chapter 16: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery 2025
In pregnant orthopaedic trauma patients, diversion to a centre with obstetric and trauma expertise directly from the scene of an injury should be considered, to avoid delay of appropriate specialist care.91
Chapter 10: Guidelines for the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services 2025
Children should be separated from, and not managed directly alongside adults throughout the patient pathway, including reception and recovery areas. Where complete physical separation is not possible, the use of screens or curtains, whilst not ideal, may provide a solution.
Chapter 18: Guidelines on the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Cardiac Procedures 2025
Continuity of care should be a priority in prolonged procedures and when this is not possible, a formal documented process with some overlap should be in place for handover of clinical care from one anaesthetist to another.3
Chapter 18: Guidelines on the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Cardiac Procedures 2025
A subgroup of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) will benefit from surgery and thise condition should be managed in designated national centres. Currently only one UK centre provides specialist surgical intervention for patients with CTEPH.