The Royal College of Anaesthetists provides a range of helpful patient information leaflets, including:
- Common events and risks in anaesthesia
- Preparing for surgery: Fitter Better Sooner
- Anaesthesia explained
- You and your anaesthetic
- Your spinal anaesthetic
- Epidural pain relief after surgery
- Your anaesthetic for major surgery
- Your anaesthetic for a broken hip
- Nerve blocks for surgery on the shoulder, arm or hand
- Local anaesthesia for your eye operation
- Sedation explained
- Caring for someone who has had a general anaesthetic or sedation
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: feeling sick
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: sore throat
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: shivering
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: damage to teeth, lips and tongue
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: damage to the eye during general anaesthesia
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: postoperative chest infection
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: becoming confused after an operation
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: accidental awareness during general anaesthesia
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: serious allergy (anaphylaxis)
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: headache after a spinal or epidural injection
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: nerve damage associated with an operation under general anaesthetic
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: nerve damage associated with a spinal or epidural injection
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: nerve damage associated with peripheral nerve block
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: equipment failure
- Risks associated with your anaesthetic: death or brain damage
- Caring for someone who has had a general anaesthetic or sedation
- General anaesthesia: a brief guide for young people
- Davy the Detective: finding out about anaesthetics
- You and your anaesthetic: a young person’s web guide
- You and your anaesthetic: a young person’s web guide
- Your child’s general anaesthetic
- Rees Bear has an anaesthetic