Anaes Vivas · Electricity, diathermy & theatre safety
Clinical viva — reducing the surgical-fire risk
A clinical viva on the fire-risk reduction — the fire triangle, the high-risk head-and-neck zone, the alcohol-prep drying, the lowest FiO2, the bipolar, the draping, and the team communication.
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Prompt
A junior colleague asks how you minimise the surgical-fire risk for a head-and-neck case under general anaesthesia. Walk them through the assessment and the precautions.
Stimulus
A junior colleague asks how you minimise the surgical-fire risk for a thyroidectomy under the general anaesthesia (the head and the neck, the alcohol skin prep, the surgeon using the monopolar diathermy). Walk them through the assessment and the precautions.
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