Recent issues with safety of cosmetic surgery in Australia ...this from @ergopropterdoc 4 years ago discusses anaesthesia safety...
We need to close legal loopholes to ensure everyone is safe when going under anaesthesia theconversation.com/we-need-to-clo… via @ConversationEDU
We need to close legal loopholes to ensure everyone is safe when going under anaesthesia theconversation.com/we-need-to-clo… via @ConversationEDU
Just like it can be surprising for patients to realise that their 'surgeon' has a medical degree but no surgical qualifications; their 'anaesthetist' currently is not required by law to have specialty training either.
Grateful to the Medical Board who will review cosmetic surgery, submissions open now:
medicalboard.gov.au/News/Newslette…
medicalboard.gov.au/News/Newslette…
Also review coming around the title ‘surgeon’. Feedback from public requested. 
Well said here in @ergopropterdoc’s article from 2017: specialist anaesthetists, GP’s who have received additional training; and emergency and intensive care physicians can all administer anaesthesia safely.
Scope of practice is key.
Scope of practice is key.
Even within anaes, there are subspecialties. For example; I could theoretically do cardiac anaesthesia, I however would not because apart from exposure during training, it is not within my scope. (Also, the hospitals wouldn’t go for it). There is however no law preventing it.
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