Services We Provide - Surgical & Ambulatory Care Services

Surgical Services - Anaesthetics

The Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) Anaesthetic Department is the largest department within Surgical Services. It is also the largest training facility for both Anaesthetists and Anaesthetic Technicians within the northern region.

The Department provides a 24 hour, 7 days per week service to all environs of CMDHB. The role of the Department is essentially as a support service and because of the range of provision the requirements and resources vary more than in any other service.

As an ANZCA Training Institution, adherence to ANZCA standards is reviewed by ANZCA on a regular basis. Guidelines cover all aspects of anaesthesia care, both clinical and non-clinical i.e. equipment, support staff, teaching and training.

The core business of the Anaesthetic Department is the provision of elective and acute anaesthesia services across the Middlemore and Manukau campuses. However the scope of the service extends beyond this to the provision of acute and chronic pain services, pre-anaesthetic assessment clinics, and anaesthesia for obstetrics, medicine and other procedures, for example, emergency care and recovery room procedures.