Objectives

Role:   

• To coordinate clinical activity in Main Theatre Suite at SJH: Where possible, patients requiring resuscitation/stabilisation should go to theatres before transfer to Red ICU/other NHSL site
• Support and communicate with CCC1 in theatre control room

Initial Actions:

• Allocate appropriate anaesthetic cover to obstetric theatres
• Work with theatre control team to facilitate safe and rapid cessation of ongoing surgery as appropriate
• Coordinate preparation of theatres and anaesthetic rooms for patients from the Emergency Department (ED)
• Coordinate new admissions from ED into empty theatres with appropriate medical/nursing staff per patient
• Support nursing staff/ODPs
• Ensure that Belmonts/CVVH being primed
• If VIP involved, facilitate isolation of theatres 1 and 2 for VIP and security/administrative team. Allocate consultant to VIP area
• Communicate with CCC1

Continuous Actions

• Follow task requests from Critical Care Consultant (CCC) 1
• Ensure your bleep/phone number is distributed via Whatapp MI groups and recorded by Theatre Control Team
• Attend your clinical area, coordinate you team and report regularly to CCC1 in theatre control team.
• Communicate likely requirements of patients coming to theatres or ICU to the Theatre Control Team
• Ensure all patient documentation is complete
• On completion of task report back to CCC1 and proceed to coffee room if not immediately required
• Do not leave hospital without reporting to CCC1 and signing out
• Be prepared to be sent away to return at a later time if staffing requires
• Refer all external requests for information about incident to the control room
• Support and look after your colleagues