Session Summary
Learning Objectives
Having completed this session you will be able to:
- Explain why the patient in recovery is the anaesthetist’s responsibility
- List the essential information which forms the basis of a safe handover (e.g. patient details, surgery, physiological status, analgesia, antiemesis)
- Hand over your patient to the recovery team, competently and effectively communicating the patient’s history and post-operative requirements
- List and describe situations where there may be special adaptations for recovery: co-morbidity, children, obstetrics, regional anaesthesia, critically ill and the dying patient
- State patient discharge criteria from the recovery unit
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