#6-10: Private Practice Anesthesia- Do’s and Dont’s

6. Ask the patient about dentures, special drugs and medications, and valuables he may be carrying.
   
7. Check that the consent form is signed and witnessed. Make sure there is a separate consent form per operation when the patient visits regularly.
   
8. Do not impose your choice of anaesthesia. If there is disagreement discuss and convince the surgeon or the patient. Do not use spinal for investigative procedures and procedures that likely to be repeated very often.
   
9. Do not insist on the procedures you are taught in teaching hospital. For example, spinal, general or cannulating a vein in an infant for EUA or IV infusion when not necessary.
   
10. Carry your own tourniquet do not expect any help.
    

#11-15: Private Practice Anesthesia- Do’s and Dont’s