The monitoring of patients within the perioperative environment has become increasingly sophisticated as technological advances are made within anaesthesia and anaesthetic technique. The contemporary anaesthetic practitioner (AP) is required to prepare an ever mounting array of complex monitoring equipment within their daily routine. For clarification, in this article the abbreviation AP will refer to a nurse or operating department practitioner who is performing the anaesthetic assistant role, not to a physicians' assistant (anaesthesia) (AAGBI 2008).
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