Anaesthetics

Anaesthetic Drugs

Pre-operative

• Patient experience before to sleep, on waking up
• Assess medical fitness
  • relevance of pre-op medication
  • routine screening tests
  • special investigations
• Assess need for IV fluids, blood transfusion
• Prophylactic antibiotics
• DVT
• Predict analgesic needs
• Need for additional perioperative treatment
• Pre-operative fasting
• Pre-operative optimisation of acutely ill patient

Intra-operative care

• Principles of intra-operative monitoring
• Needs of an unconscious patient
• Cardiorespiratory physiology
  • fluid rescusitation
  • ventilation
  • blood transfusion
• Regional/local anaesthetic techniques (complications)

Post-operative care

• Analgesic drug regimes
• Post-operative monitoring
• Role of HDU/ITU
• Detect & Treat
  • respiratory failure
  • cardiac failure
  • renal failure
  • sepsis
• Nausea and vomiting
• O2 therapy