Anaesthetists Handbook - MEDICAL EDUCATION at University ...

Getting senior help• Prolonged severe hypoxia.• Anaphylaxis.• Malignant hyperpyrexia.• Cardiac arrest in theatre.• Sudden massive haemorrhage.• Air embolism.• Severe hypotension or hypertension in theatre.All calls received over this system will be audited regularly.Contacting clinical staff in anaesthesia orelsewhereThere is an urgent clinician-to-clinician number. You should call thisnumber if you need to speak urgently to another clinician (forexample, your consultant) urgently and you find that the switchboardis delayed in answering.Call 27027 (DDI 024 7696 7027).This is for urgent calls only; non-urgent calls will not be connected.Mobile communicationsMobile phones do not work reliably in the University Hospital. Atpresent, UHCW does not intend to make mobile phone functionpossible. This has been raised repeatedly as a clinical risk.You may not be able to call consultants on their mobile phones.All consultant anaesthetists have bleep numbers (listed on the ‘stafflist’ page on the intranet). Either bleep them directly or phoneswitchboard, state your needs and ask them to find the consultantyou need. You should state the degree of urgency associated withthis call.44 Anaesthetists Handbook January 2010