Anaesthesia Perioperative Care Network resources

Perioperative tools

Use this set of resources as a framework for continuous quality improvement of perioperative care.

Managing fasting times for patients awaiting surgery or sedation.

Provide safe preoperative fasting and fluid diets in operating theatres in NSW hospitals.

Use the surgery-related diet specifications in this list.

Perform only clinically appropriate procedures.

Promote healthy behaviours by prescribing preparatory interventions.

Create an action plan for colorectal surgery using these principles, implementation enablers and interventions.

Implement surgery that enables the patient to be discharged the same day.

Understand the initiatives driving improvement in planned surgery.

Promotes conservative-first pathways to improve outcomes, reduce waiting times and ensures surgery is only used when needed.

Key components of safe procedural sedation for adults to support NSW public health services to provide high-quality patient care.