Sharing and adapting the QRH - licensing terms

The Association of Anaesthetists' QRH material is controlled by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Before you download, share or modify any QRH material, please check you understand what this means.

Please be aware that by modifying any part of any guideline, you become responsible for that guideline in its entirety and for verifying its content. Please be aware that modifying the document may have unforseen effects on the original content and formatting.

Once you have modified any of these Word documents, we recommend you save them as PDFs before distribution or printing as this gives them more predicable results.

QRH Word pages

Print the pages in the following order to create a complete QRH:

0-1 Cover page (UPDATED June 2023)

0-2 Contents (UPDATED June 2023)

0-3 Instructions for use (UPDATED January 2021)

0-4 Location of emergency equipment

1-1 Key basic plan

2-1 Cardiac Arrest

2-2 Hypoxia desaturation cyanosis

2-3 Increased Airway Pressure

2-4 Hypotension

2-5 Hypertension

2-6 Bradycardia

2-7 Tachycardia

2-8 Perioperative hyperthermia

3-1 Anaphylaxis (UPDATED April 2022)

3-2 Massive blood loss (UPDATED May 2018)

3-3 Can't intubate can't oxygenate (CICO)

3-4 Bronchospasm (UPDATED June 2023)

3-5 Circulatory embolus

3-6 Laryngospasm and stridor

3-7 Patient fire

3-8 Malignant hyperthermia crisis (UPDATED January 2021)

3-9 Cardiac tamponade

3-10 Local anaesthetic toxicity (UPDATED June 2023)

3-11 High central neuraxial block

3-12 Cardiac ischaemia (UPDATED August 2019)

3-13 Neuroprotection following cardiac arrest

3-14 Sepsis

4-1 Mains oxygen failure

4-2 Mains electricity failure

4-3 Emergency evacuation

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