Organization | Continuous presence of | Descriptor | Patient monitors |
ASA | Qualified anesthesia personnel | Minimum | - Inspired O2 with low O2 limit alarm
- Pulse oximeter, with audible pulse tone and low threshold alarm
- Expired CO2 continuous, with audible alarm, during general anesthesia or moderate/deep sedation
- Disconnect alarm during mechanical ventilation
- Continuous ECG
- Blood pressure and heart rate at least every five minutes
- During GA, pulse plethysmography or oximetry, or continuous palpation of pulse, or auscultation of heart sounds, or monitored intraarterial pressure trace, or ultrasound peripheral pulse
- Temperature when clinically significant changes in body temperature are anticipated or suspected
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AAGBI | Anaesthetist of appropriate experience, or fully trained Physician Assistant (Anaesthesia) under the supervision of a Consultant Anesthetist | Minimum | - Pulse oximeter
- NIBP
- ECG
- Capnography during GA and during regional anesthesia or sedation whenever there is loss of patient response to verbal contact
- Temperature before general anesthesia and every 30 minutes during surgery
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Should use | - Inspired volatile anesthetic agent if used
- Inspired N2O if used
- During GA:
- Inspired and expired oxygen, waveform capnography
- During mechanical ventilation, airway pressure, TV, and RR
- If NMBAs used, quantitative neuromuscular monitoring throughout anesthesia
- During TIVA with neuromuscular blockade, processed EEG
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Available | - Capillary blood glucose monitoring, blood gas analysis, hemoglobin measurement, flexible bronchoscopy
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Additional | - Invasive blood pressure, cardiac output at discretion of anaesthetist
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EBA | Appropriately trained and experienced anaesthesiologist | Essential | - Pulse oximeter
- NIBP
- ECG
- Airway gases: O2 with audible alarm, CO2, vapour when volatile anesthetics used
- Airway pressure
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Available | - Peripheral nerve stimulator with NMBAs
- Temperature
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WHO-WFSA | Vigilant anesthesia professional | Highly recommended (mandatory) | - Audible signals and alarms
- Pulse oximeter, including heart rate
- CO2 detector for intubated patients
- NIBP
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Recommended | - Continuous monitoring with stethoscope (precordial, pretracheal, or oesophageal)
- Continuous capnography during GA or deep sedation
- Continuous ECG
- Peripheral nerve stimulator with muscle relaxants
- Oxygen concentration monitoring, including inspired concentration and device to prevent delivery of hypoxic gas mixture
- Disconnect alarm during mechanical ventilation
- Intermittent temperature monitoring
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Suggested | - Inspiratory and/or expired gas volumes, and concentration of volatile agents
- Invasive blood pressure in appropriate cases
- Continuous electronic temperature monitoring in appropriate cases
- Processed EEG in appropriate cases
- Urine output in appropriate cases
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CAS | Physician or an anesthesia assistant (with appropriate training and experience) under the immediate supervision of an anesthesiologist | Required | - Pulse oximeter
- BP (either invasive or non-invasive)
- ECG
- Capnography for GA and sedation
- Agent-specific anesthetic gas analyser with inhalation agents
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Exclusively available for each patient | - Temperature
- Peripheral nerve stimulator when NMBAs used
- Stethoscope (precordial, esophageal, or paratracheal)
- Lighting appropriate to visualize an exposed portion of the patient
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Immediately available | - Spirometer
- Manometer to measure ETT cuff pressure
- Equipment for invasive hemodynamic monitoring (ie, intra-arterial, CVP)
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Available | - Depth of anesthesia monitoring equipment to be considered for use in patients at increased risk for intraoperative awareness
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ANZCA | Vigilant anaesthetist, practitioner, medical practitioner | Mandatory | - Pulse oximeter
- CO2 monitor during GA
- ECG
- NIBP
- Inspired and end tidal concentration of inhaled anesthetics when used
- Temperature when warming devices used
- Neuromuscular function monitor (quantitative preferred) when considering extubation after use of nondepolarizing NMBAs
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Available | - CO2 monitor during sedation
- Continuous invasive blood pressure
- Temperature
- Neuromuscular function monitor when NMBAs used
- Temperature
- Other (EEG, CVP, CO, TEE, respiratory mechanics) when clinically indicated
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