Anaesthetists Handbook - MEDICAL EDUCATION at University ...

Introduction and scope of guidelinesrelevant arrangements with the staff in the anaesthesia office(see page 62).What this handbook containsThis handbook started in 1999 as a compilation of the folder ofmemos that each incoming registrar was required to read and initial. Iclaimed that the entire folder could be reproduced on one piece ofpaper. That turned out to be true – but the handbook then grew…Some of those memos still remain as some of the short segments inthe ‘miscellaneous issues’ section; others have been expanded andchanged over the years. I also wrote sections on how the on callduties are structured, and solicited sections on how departmentssuch as critical care are interfaced with anaesthetists.Clinical sections have often been devised originally following auditreports, or guidelines brought to department meetings have beenadopted into the handbook.The largest section of clinical guidelines in the book is that dealingwith management of pain and associated issues; this is becausemany of these policies are written so as to coordinate anaesthetists,pain management clinicians and other doctors working on thehospitals.If you feel that you would like to write a chapter, a section or aguideline, something that would have been useful to you when youstarted here or something about which you feel strongly, just get intouch with me.Anaesthetists Handbook January 2010 15