General principles
Premixed morning insulin: Halve morning dose and omit lunchtime dose; check blood glucose on admissionGive usual morning insulin dose(s); omit lunchtime dose; check blood glucose on admissionStop until eating and…
Paediatric physiology and equipment
Examples of sizing for paediatric airway equipment are given in Table 28.1. All these sizes are estimations and should not be seen as absolute. We have calculated the weights according…
Analgesic ladders
Figure 32.1 WHO analgesic ladder – 3-step approach. The WHO ladder was updated in 1996 and the five main recommendations were [2,3]: 1) ‘By mouth’ – administer analgesics orally whenever…
WHO Safer Surgery Checklist
The key to safe surgical care is effective team work and communication in combination with the use of evidence-based interventions. The WHO checklist combines all of these. The implementation of…
Subspecialty anaesthesia
Figure 20.1 Oxford Help pillow. What will be your anaesthetic technique? Thorough preoperative assessment is required. A cardiorespiratory referral and investigations or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for obstructive sleep…
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 35 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance Laura Fulton Returning to Work in Anaesthesia, ed. Emma Plunkett, Emily Johnson and Anna Pierson….
National Audit Project (NAP) summaries
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Drug doses
15 mg/kg IV (>3/12 old, max 60 mg/kg/day)Max. 500 mg if <50kgMax daily dose if <3/12 old, 60 mg/kg/dayFor term neonates (>38/40 – 3/12 old), IV dose 10 mg/kg TDSIbuprofen400…
Consent and documentation
Figure 24.1 Scale to help describe the frequency of risks. Reproduced with permission from the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Quoting risks can be difficult as the exact numbers will vary…
Ethical and legal issues
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