Getting Started - Preparing Your Theatre
Ensure you arrive at the hospital in plenty of time to start the list.
You will need time to see your patients and prepare both the anaesthetic room and theatre before your first patient arrives.
In your first few months as a novice, you should try and formulate an anaesthetic plan for each patient you have seen and discuss this with your supervising consultant. This should also be communicated to your anaesthetic assistant.
As you gain experience with different specialties and procedures you will be given increasing responsibility and autonomy to formulate and put into practice your own anaesthetic plan.
You should always consider specific patient, anaesthetic and surgical factors that could influence your chosen anaesthetic plan.