public anaesthesia lecture

Re: public anaesthesia lecture

JaneRVN — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:51:40 GMT

I imagine what you classed as "high risk" would be have been considered NOT fit for GA at most places!

Re: public anaesthesia lecture

Nick Shackleton — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:18:48 GMT

I used to work in a multidisciplinary referral centre and we had both. Anaesthetist over saw things whilst nurses monitored the majority of anaesthesia. However, for the higher risk patients he was heavily involved, if not monitoring patient completely. He however was keen to get the nurses doing the majority of the work. He was an excellent teacher.

Re: public anaesthesia lecture

tw1 — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:12:40 GMT

hi, i guess it was good to promote the fact that there are specialist vet anaethetists. i wonder if it would make the public worry more when their pet is at a "normal" vets. i'm sure there are vet referral practices that don't have them and have their nurses do the anaesthetics.

Re: public anaesthesia lecture

emvn80 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:09:18 GMT

Hi,

Here is the link for the public lecture you are refferring to http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/lectures/?action=details&id=5838

The title was 'Anaesthesia for Pet - facts, myths and misconceptions'

I would imagine they were raising awareness of veterinary anaesthetists rather than actually saying that all anaesthesia should be carried out by a specialist veterinary anaesthetist as apart from the cost implications, there simply aren't enough around! The public are more aware of specilaist orthopaedic surgeons and soft tissue surgeons etc but (in my opinion) less aware of that there is such a thing as a specialist veterinary anaesthetist (As are many nurses I guess)...I think there are certain specialist anaesthetic techniques and procedures that should only be carried out by specially trained anaesthetists etc but that is the same for any specialist area...not all soft tissue surgery is carried out by specialist surgeons, general practicioners are capable of carrying out routine soft tissue surgery, as much as well trained nurses are capable of carrying out certain anaesthetic techniques and procedures.

There are plenty of veterinary referral centres where specialist veterinary anaesthetists do all the anaesthetics rather than the nurses, providing an extremely high standard of care which suits the level of specialist procedures occurring and allows many tecniques to be performed which otherwise could not happen. In some referral centres the nurses are supervised by one or 2 specialist anaesthetists who are available for help, advice, specialist techniques which nurses are unable to do (epidurals) and they may do the extremely critical cases with help from the nurses.

Re: public anaesthesia lecture

Sal the 1st — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:13:08 GMT

havnt heard about the public lecture but have heard this suggested before which I found really interesting. I dont know how it would work out to be honest in a lot of places. I suppose if the public start to demand it then it will come in - but will the public want to pay the increased costs?