AAGBI: Consent for anaesthesia 2017: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

S M Yentis; A J Hartle; I R Barker; P Barker; D G Bogod; T H Clutton-Brock; A Ruck Keene; S Leifer; A Naughton; E Plunkett

doi:10.1111/anae.13762

AAGBI: Consent for anaesthesia 2017: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

Anaesthesia. 2017 Jan;72(1):93-105. doi: 10.1111/anae.13762.

Authors

S M Yentis¹, A J Hartle², I R Barker³, P Barker⁴, D G Bogod⁵, T H Clutton-Brock⁶, A Ruck Keene⁷, S Leifer⁸, A Naughton⁹, E Plunkett¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Chelsea and Westminster Hospital/Imperial College London, AAGBI Board of Directors (Working Party Chair from July 2015), London, UK.
² Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, AAGBI (to Sept 2016; Working Party Chair to July 2015), London, UK.
³ Imperial Rotation, London, UK.
⁴ AAGBI Board of Directors, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norwich, UK.
⁵ Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
⁶ University of Birmingham, Royal College of Anaesthetists (to Feb. 2016), Birmingham, UK.
⁷ University of Manchester, King's College London, 39 Essex Chambers, London, UK.
⁸ AAGBI Group of Anaesthetists in Training (GAT) Committee, Manchester Rotation, Manchester, UK.
⁹ AAGBI Board of Directors.
¹⁰ AAGBI GAT Committee, Birmingham School of Anaesthesia, Birmingham, UK.

Abstract

Previous guidelines on consent for anaesthesia were issued by the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland in 1999 and revised in 2006. The following guidelines have been produced in response to the changing ethical and legal background against which anaesthetists, and also intensivists and pain specialists, currently work, while retaining the key principles of respect for patients' autonomy and the need to provide adequate information. The main points of difference between the relevant legal frameworks in England and Wales and Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are also highlighted.

Keywords: anaesthesia; assessment; consent; medicolegal; pre-operative.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Advance Directives / ethics
Advance Directives / legislation & jurisprudence
Anesthesia / adverse effects
Anesthesia / ethics
Anesthesia / standards*
Clinical Competence
Disclosure / ethics
Disclosure / standards
Documentation / standards
Ethics, Medical
Humans
Informed Consent / ethics
Informed Consent / legislation & jurisprudence
Informed Consent / standards*
Ireland
Mental Competency
Patient Participation
United Kingdom