Physician associates in anaesthesia: when does a patient become differentiated?

Abstract

One key recommendation of the Leng review is that physician assistants (formerly physician associates) and physician assistants in anaesthesia (formerly anaesthesia associates) should not see undifferentiated patients.12 In anaesthesia, this creates the question of when a patient becomes differentiated. Anaesthetic medical training is structured in such a way that, from an early stage, doctors are taught and …