General principles

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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…

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Paediatric physiology and equipment

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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…

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Analgesic ladders

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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…

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WHO Safer Surgery Checklist

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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…

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Subspecialty anaesthesia

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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…

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance

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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….

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National Audit Project (NAP) summaries

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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 34 National Audit Project (NAP) summaries Fran Haigh and Anna Pierson Returning to Work in Anaesthesia, ed. Emma Plunkett, Emily Johnson and Anna Pierson. Published…

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Drug doses

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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…

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Consent and documentation

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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…

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Ethical and legal issues

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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 22 Ethical and legal issues Returning to Work in Anaesthesia, ed. Emma Plunkett, Emily Johnson and Anna Pierson. Published by Cambridge University Press. © Cambridge…

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