Personnel | · Minimum 2 Senior Anaesthetists, 2 Anaesthesia Nurses, 2 Surgeons, 2 Scrub nurses (Team) · PPE required: · Anaesthesia personnel: PAPR + N95 masks + disposable gowns + Double gloves · All other personnel: in OT—PAPR + N95 masks + disposable gowns in OT. Outside OT—N95 + goggles + gowns + Double gloves · Standby personnel in DSOT bank: 1 Anaesthesia, 1 AU nurse, 1 Scrub nurse all gowned up as appropriate · All to be in appropriate PPE attire prior to the patient’s arrival. · Team Huddle between Nursing, Surgeons and Anaesthesia personnel is required before patient’s arrival: · Surgical and Anaesthesia plan · Equipment required · Environment planning |
Equipment | · Anaesthesia Equipment · Inside OT: ² Draeger Advance Anaesthesia Machine with HME filters at both patient and machine ends of circuit ² Transparent plastic wrapped-Philips Monitor ² Complete Airway Cart with suctioning ² Airway adjuncts and masks ² Video laryngoscope ² Fully stocked Anaesthetic drug trolley as per EOT including muscle relaxants, emergency drugs, syringes, IV and IA cannulae ² 1 litre Plasmalyte and Normal Saline fluid bags X 5 each ² Plastic Wrapped Ultrasound Machine ² Bair Hugger ² Stethoscope · Outside OT: ² fully-equipped Emergency Trolley with Defibrillator ² Level 1 fluid infusor TM ² Fluid warmers ² Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) kit ² Intralipid · Surgical Equipment · Instruments (Laparoscopic and Open) · Diathermy · Fluids · Suctioning · Miscellaneous · 2 plastic wrapped portable computers · Spare Pens, Paper and Anaesthetic Charts · Spare N95, surgical masks with face shields, PAPR and filters · Phone number of corridor phone to be clearly pasted on the phone in the OT · Signage specifying route of transport, decontaminating OT area · Visual posters on PPE donning/doffing procedures |