This article looks at the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme's new postoperative morbidity variable life adjusted display charts (pomVLAD) for all sites recruiting patients undergoing colorectal surgery and launching in 2023.
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A report on the lessons learnt during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Emira Kursumovic is an ST7 anaesthetist in Bath and HSRC-NAP7 clinical research fellow. She leads work on anaesthesia and critical care COVID activity tracking surveys called ACCC-track.
Chapter 9: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for an Obstetric Population 2025
The lead obstetric anaesthetist should be made aware of all complaints.
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Presented by Nick Margerrison with his guest Dr Hilary Swales, lead for Patient Information at The Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Chapter 18: Guidelines on the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Cardiac Procedures 2025
An appropriately trained consultant or autonomously practising cardiac anaesthetist should be wholly and exclusively available at all times, through a formal on-call rota.4 The out of hours duties of the on-call consultant or autonomously practising cardiac theatre anaesthetist should cover only cardiac emergencies, as they can arise and escalate very rapidly, particularly in tertiary referral units. On-call cardiac intensive...
Dr Jason Walker is a consultant anaesthetist working in the district general hospital Ysbyty Gwynedd in Wales - here he discusses what led him to want to become a FRCA examiner.
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In this episode of Anaesthesia on Air, Professor Iain Moppett, Director of the Health Services Research Centre of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia talks to Colleagues Professor Scarlet McNally, Dr Annie Hunningher, Susannah Stamford and Fran Watts about the new safety standards (NatSSIPs2) The Centre for Perioperative Care has published
Chapter 1: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services: The Good Department 2025
Arrangements to handover duties easily and swiftly should be made promptly and sympathetically to enable the anaesthetist or staff member to have time away from the workplace following a major adverse event. Additional support should be provided on return to work and also when the anaesthetist is presented with similar clinical scenarios.97
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Vice-Chair, PatientsVoices@RCoA