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All patients who have undergone anaesthesia are at risk of postoperative complications including compromise to the airway, breathing and circulation. Therefore, management and transport of patients...

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All patients who undergo anaesthesia or sedation are at risk of intraoperative complications during induction, maintenance, and emergence from anaesthesia, including compromise to the airway, ...

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The recommendations within this document describe the features of a high quality emergency anaesthetic service. There are many different types of hospitals and for this reason the implementation of...

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The range of procedures requiring anaesthesia for burn and plastic surgery is wide and includes patients of all ages. These range from those with common minor injuries (dog bites, nail bed injuries), ...

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Cardiothoracic anaesthesia services are provided for patients undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures. To reflect current practice, these guidelines have been more clearly divided to identify...

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Neuroanaesthesia encompasses a wide range of emergency and elective work. Anaesthesia for intracranial oncology, vascular and functional surgery, complex spinal surgery, as well as anaesthesia for...

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Vascular  services are recognised as having a high priority in the UK. Publication of evidence that the outcome from abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery was significantly worse in the UK...

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Trauma remains the most common cause of loss of life in the under 40s age group1  in the UK, and as such major trauma centres (MTCs) and trauma units (TUs) have been established to receive...

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Infants, children and young people have different requirements. There are marked developmental changes within the paediatric age range, and neonates, infants, and prepubertal children under the age...

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Inpatient pain services (IPS) consist of a multidisciplinary team including appropriately trained acute pain physicians and anaesthetists along with nurses specialised in pain management. Other...

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