- Depth of Anaesthesia – Stages of and Monitoring of ;
- Monitoring of spinal cord function under general anaesthesia
- Transferring the patient
- Corrrect intraoperative positioning on theatre table, care of pressure points, avoidance of nerve injury: complications of
- supine and prone positions
- Lateral Position
- Trendelenberg/Lithotomy
- Risk of Peripheral Nerve damage
- Techniques of maintenance of general anaesthesia involving both spontaneous and controlled ventilation (except sub-specialty and highly specialised practice)
- Effects and hazards of the pneumoperitoneum induced for laparoscopic surgery
- Choice of spontaneous and controlled ventilation and methods of monitoring them
- Principles of fluid balance intraoperatively
- Content of the anaesthetic record
- Temperature control and patient rewarming methods
- 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.)
- Detection and correction of airway obstruction
- Management of appropriate intermittent positive pressure ventilation
- Methods of pain relief during maintenance
CEACCP 2003: AUGUST
Simon David Whyte and Peter Driscoll Booker
Monitoring depth of anaesthesia by EEG
CEACCP 2004: OCTOBER
David JW Knight and Ravi P Mahajan
Patient positioning in anaesthesia
CEACCP 2004: AUGUST
Mandy Perrin and Anthony Fletcher
Laparoscopic abdominal surgery
CEACCP 2005: OCTOBER
Sahir S Rassam and David J Counsell
Perioperative electrolyte and fluid balance
CEACCP 2005: OCTOBER
Sahir S Rassam and David J Counsell
Perioperative fluid therapy
CEACCP 2003: FEBRUARY
David A Kirkbride and Donal J Buggy
Thermoregulation and mild peri-operative hypothermia
CEACCP 2006: FEBRUARY
Mark Luscombe and John C Andrzejowski
Clinical applications of induced hypothermia