Description
Anaesthesia is said to be 90% boredom and 10% panic. But for the new recruit it can be the other way round! This webinar looks at the very basics of anaesthesia: the pre-anaesthetic check, the importance of pre-medication, ensuring your equipment is good to go, calculating fresh gas flows, knowing if you will have enough oxygen, what and how to monitor, and recovery.
Learning Objectives
- Recognise the importance of pre-medication
- Gain knowledge in what happens during induction and the importance of correct intubation
- Understand how to calculate fresh gas flows and know which anaesthetic circuit to choose
- Understand how to monitor depth and the difference between light anaesthesia and pain
- Know when to take action
- Recognise when and how to extubate and how to recover your patient
