Maintainence

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1. Depth of Anaesthesia – Stages of and Monitoring of ;
2. Monitoring of spinal cord function under general anaesthesia
3. Transferring the patient
4. Corrrect intraoperative positioning on theatre table, care of pressure points, avoidance of nerve injury: complications of
   1. supine and prone positions
   2. Lateral Position
   3. Trendelenberg/Lithotomy
5. Risk of Peripheral Nerve damage
6. Techniques of maintenance of general anaesthesia involving both spontaneous and controlled ventilation (except sub-specialty and highly specialised practice)
7. Effects and hazards of the pneumoperitoneum induced for laparoscopic surgery
8. Choice of spontaneous and controlled ventilation and methods of monitoring them
9. Principles of fluid balance intraoperatively
10. Content of the anaesthetic record
11. Temperature control and patient rewarming methods
12. Maintenance of appropriate levels of anaesthesia with inhalational and intravenous agents in patients with elective and urgent conditions requiring gynaecological, abdominal, orthopaedic, ENT, dental, urological and body surface surgery (Knowledge of sub-specialty practice and specialised techniques is not required unless specified elsewhere.)
13. Detection and correction of airway obstruction
14. Management of appropriate intermittent positive pressure ventilation
15. Methods of pain relief during maintenance

CEACCP 2006: FEBRUARY
Mark Luscombe and John C Andrzejowski
Clinical applications of induced hypothermia