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Review outlines modern anesthetic practices for surgeons covering preoperative assessment, intraoperative management, and safety.
Provides an educational update on modern anaesthetic practice for surgeons to facilitate high-quality collaborative patient care.
May enhance collaborative perioperative care via updated anaesthetic knowledge for surgeons; extends educational resources but leaves open outcome validation.
Surgeons and anaesthetists work closely together, sometimes in challenging circumstances. To help surgeons cooperate with anaesthetists to deliver high quality care for patients, a working knowledge of modern anaesthetic practice is useful. The specialty of anaesthetics is developing rapidly, and periodic updating of this knowledge is likely to be required. This article provides an update of anaesthetic practice for surgeons, covering the varied roles of anaesthetists, preoperative assessment, management on the day of surgery (induction, maintenance and reversal of anaesthetic), general anaesthesia, the role of regional blocks and sedation. It also discusses safety issues, the management of frail patients and future challenges.
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Valsamis et al. (2018) conducted a review in Anaesthetic practice. This review provides an update on modern anaesthetic practice for surgeons, covering preoperative assessment, intraoperative management, regional blocks, sedation, and safety issues.
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