Core Topics in Preoperative Anaesthetic Assessment and Management

A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert is a Consultant Cardiac Anaesthetist, Intensivist, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George's Medical School. She has first-hand experience and understanding of the needs of clinicians in pre-operative anaesthetic clinic and is an educator and examiner for the European Diploma of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. She has a LL.M in Medical Law and Ethics and has an interest in end of life decisions in intensive care. Dr Crerar-Gilbert has a number of scientific publications in Anaesthesia, British Journal of Anaesthesia and chapters in the Oxford Desk Reference of Critical Care Book (2008) and in the Critical Care Handbook. Mark MacGregor is a Consultant Vascular Anaesthetist. Specialist training at St George's Hospital, and a fellowship at the Alfred Hospital in Australia in 2012 and 2013 triggered his interest in pre-operative assessment. He has since been leading the peri-operative pathway for vascular patients at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital NHS foundation Trust in Surrey where he currently works.

• 1. Ischaemic Heart Disease Abhiram Prasad; 2. Hypertension Tarek Francis Antonios; 3. Cardiac Arrhythmias Mark M. Gallagher and Hanney Gonna; 4. Heart failure Kristopher Knott and Nesan Shanmugan; 5A. Cardiac investigations: echocardiography Sohaib Nazir and Rajan Sharma; 5B. Cardiac investigations: myocardial perfusion imaging Vineet Prakash; 5C. Cardiac investigations: cardiac magnetic resonance Robin Ray and Bashar Ibrahim; 5D. Cardiac investigations: computed tomography angiography Vineet Prakash; 5E. Cardiac investigations: comparison of cardiac functional tests and imaging Tarun Mittal and Aigul Baltabaeva; 6. Respiratory Disease Shruti Konda, Michele Ramsay and Brendan P. Madden; 7. Difficult airway prediction Fauzia Mir and A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert; 8. Renal Disease Iain A. M. MacPhee; 9. Neurological disease Doris Doberenz, Marcela Vizcaychipi, Nives Dorronsoro and Anthony Perreira; 10. Hepatobiliary disease Anish Gupta and Charl Jooste; 11. Neuromuscular disease Enjarn Lin and Stuart Hastings; 12. Connective tissue Disease Enjarn Lin and Stuart Hastings; 13. Immunocompromised patients Enjarn Lin and Stuart Hastings; 14. Frailty David J. H. Shipway and Lucy A. Nolan; 15. Haematology Ying Ying Peng and James Uprichard; 16. Biochemistry Laura Tooth and Paul Collinson; 17. Endocrine Disease Grainne Nicholson and George M. Hall; 18. Bariatric patients Justin A. Burke; 19. Chronic pain and addiction Fernando Salazar; 20. Obstetric Patients Roisin Monteiro, Richard George and Steve Yentis; 21. Herbal medications A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert; 22. Anaphylaxis A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert; 23. Legal considerations A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert; 24. Predicting operative risk Jignasa Modha, Ramai Santhirapala and S. Ramani Moonesinghe; 25. Challenges of setting up preoperative service Robert Hill and Jane Jackson.