Patient / Anaesthesiologist Information

• Please do not eat any food and drink any liquid for 8 hours before your procedure/operation. You must have an empty stomach for anaesthetic safety.

• You must arrange for a responsible adult to collect you at the hospital/day clinic when you’re discharged. You are not permitted to go home unaccompanied.

Fee Structure

Fees for procedures are linked to time in theatre.

This includes: 

• Pre-operative assessment. The anaesthesiologist will see you prior to the procedure (if possible) or otherwise in theatre

• The procedure. This is calculated according the difficulty of the surgical procedure

• Anaesthetic time

• Some procedures are linked to a modifier

Additional fees

• Here are some of the additional modifiers that will have an impact on the standard fee:  

• Unscheduled emergency consultation fee

• All hours emergency fee

• Epidurals, nerve blocks and/or PCA for pain relief

• Invasive monitoring lines

• Any procedure performed in any position other than lithotomy or supine

• Head, neck and shoulder girdle procedures

• BMI — Body Mass Index of more than 35

• Control of blood pressure

• Age — Younger than 1 year or older than 70 years

  
  

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