After reviewing your medical chart, the anaesthetist will ask you a few questions to get details of any problems, and to check on your past experience with anaesthetics. The anaesthetist may also want to perform a brief examination. For example, he may want to have a look at your mouth and teeth to ensure that it would be easy to insert a tube into your windpipe, if this is needed. Monitoring Next, the anaesthetist and operating room nurses will ensure that you are properly monitored throughout the anaesthetic. In Canada, this means following the Canadian Anaesthetic Society Guidelines.
Most countries have similar recommendations.
This shows how fast your heart is beating, and allows the anaesthetist to pick up problems such as an irregular heartbeat or signs that the heart is not getting enough oxygen. This cuff goes round your upper arm. From time to time it will squeeze your arm tight, to find out the pressure of the blood in your arteries. It is important that this is neither too high or too low. An automatic blood pressure machine usually shows four numbers, the high, average, and low pressures with each heartbeat, and the heart rate.