Sprint National Anaesthesia Project 3: A Survey of the Workload Generated by Older Surgical Patients Referred to On-Call Medical Registrars in Australia

Thomas E Poulton^{1

2

3}, Claire Swarbrick^{4

5}, Adeel Aftab⁶, Gayle Claxton², Jacqueline C T Close⁷, Amanda Dawson⁸, Jai N Darvall^{2

9}, David Highton¹⁰, Allison L Kearney¹¹, Jennifer R Reilly², Guy Stanley¹², Janani Thillainadesan^{13

14}, Judith S L Partridge^{15

16}, Iain K Moppett^{4

17}; SNAP 3 (Australia) Collaborators

Collaborators, Affiliations

Collaborators

SNAP 3 (Australia) Collaborators:
Stephanie Athan, Tim Coulson, Brendan Creely, Mathew Jackman, David Shan, Greg Henderson, Cathy King, Aria Nasteka, Kwan Yun Lee, Zain Al-Tanan, Mark Engelbrecht, Adam Fambiatos, Nathan Fifer, Lachlan Frawley, Claire Furyk, Adam Guilfoyle, Zunayed Kabir, Yasmean Kalam, Andrew Marriott, Harry Pearce, Oliver Swallow, Sloane Birrell, Kate Booth, Nevin Chen, Jason Cox, Angus Lee, Teagan Omston, Sarah Aitken, Gabriella Charlton, Nadine Elias, Nima Iranpour, Amy Laurence, John Quoyle, Michael Suen, Janani Thillainadesan, Husein Al Talib, Suellyn Centauri, Chris Ee, Elliot Gin, Wan Wan Hassan, Kumail Jaffry, Brian Koo, Yigeng Li, Jack Menzie, Phi Nguyen, Jasprit Singh, Evie Yeap, David Zula, Megan Banks, Ines Clement, Chathumi Hettiarachchi, Elizabeth Hines, Subham Kulshrestha, Rohan Kumar, Katherine Magpily, Kelly Nam, Henry Nguyen, Toby Richards, Louise de Prinse, Conor Keely, Linda Partridge, Vanessa Scotland, Charlotte Wade, Mitchell Baker, Matt Brown, Shirley Cai, Janae Chew, Amanda Dawson, Yannick De Silva, Isabella Dong, Hugh Elbourne, Shubhang Hariharan, Robert Kibuuka, Matthew Kwon, Hui Ying Lee, Jacky Lin, Vivian Lin, Elizabeth Lun, Andrew Middleton, Shawn Ng, Sylvia Ng, Vanessa Ng, Tin Ngan, Ramanathan Palaniappan, Madison Roussos, Aasim Shakoor, Jenny Siu, Cyril Tang, Joyce Wang, Daniel Wong, Douglas Young, Felix Ziergielbel, Harvey Chong, Natasha Pearson, Nicholas Quirk, Helen Roberts, Jeanene Douglas, Paul Healey, Monique Magnusson, Samuel Fell, Tracy Hess, Jack Petersen, Brynley Russell, Suresh Singaravelu, Suet Ling Goh, Yuxi Ren, Amy Skiller, Ryan Ammendolea, Dhiraj Bhatia, Aun Chian, Amy Dai, Tom Darling, Patrick Galloway, Travis Holmes, Alex Kwong, Eugene Lai, Sitong Li, Nicholas Lui, James Moshinsky, Josh Nguyen, Brenda Phillips, Joshua Wibowo, Rona Zhao, Annetta Zheng, Nicole Humphreys, Jacqueline Lake, Jade Radnor, Stephen Surace, Hengkang Yan, Shahad AlBadri, Chun Chan, Mitch Collins, Stefan Genat, Rose Hadden, Manon Jenkins, Jackson Ji, Harry LeMass, Julian Soh, Jaqueline Close, Ghalia Feddah, Sonya Jung, Priscilla Marneros, Bridie Peters, Vishal Shah, Casey Allen, Kieran Armstrong, Roxanne Bain, Raghav Balakrishnan, Danielle Crimmins, Jaya Gounder, Alex Hickey, David Highton, Allison Kearney, Alexis Kenny, Ben King-Koi, Samuel Lawler, Agnes Leung, Renee Shaw, Joy Turner, Sara Ali, Lachlan Clarke, Ashfaq Hussain, Jimin Kang, Nadine Mahgoub, Beena Parker, Alanna Platz, Raqeeb Rasul, Edward Ricketts, Mathew Bolland, Kerry Chen, Elaine Chilcott, Jai Darvall, Harsch Kothari, Neeraj Limaye, Nur Lubis, Ashley St John, Andrew Tan, Kelsey Turner, Hannah Van Eeekelen, Anurag Vijay, Brian Yip, Sophie Connolly, Ben-Menachem Erez, Lucinda Swan, Cheuk Shan Choi, Tang Howard, Luojia Li, Cindy Lin, Joanne Liu, Ningyi Lu, Peter Williams, Jason Wong, Justin Yeung, Zhonghao Zhang, Victor Zhao, Divya Barathy Sugumaran, Dani Brewster-O'brien, Denise Chia, Liam Clifford, Charlotte Cornwell, Mahli Kumarasinhe, Richard McGee, Aditya Patil, Rhys Rodrigues, Edward Zhang

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthetics, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Research Department of Targeted Intervention, University College London, London, UK.
⁴ Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Academic Unit of Injury, Recovery and Inflammation Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.
⁶ Queensland Anaesthetic Registrars' Research Collaborative, Brisbane, Australia.
⁷ Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
⁹ Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁰ Princess Alexandra Southside Clinical Unit, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
¹¹ Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia.
¹² University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
¹³ Department of Geriatric Medicine and Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁴ Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁵ Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London, London, UK.
¹⁶ Department of Ageing and Health, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁷ Anaesthesia, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.

PMID: 41039967
DOI: 10.1111/ans.70335

Sprint National Anaesthesia Project 3: A Survey of the Workload Generated by Older Surgical Patients Referred to On-Call Medical Registrars in Australia

Thomas E Poulton et al. ANZ J Surg. 2025.

. 2025 Oct 3.

doi: 10.1111/ans.70335. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Collaborators

SNAP 3 (Australia) Collaborators:
Stephanie Athan, Tim Coulson, Brendan Creely, Mathew Jackman, David Shan, Greg Henderson, Cathy King, Aria Nasteka, Kwan Yun Lee, Zain Al-Tanan, Mark Engelbrecht, Adam Fambiatos, Nathan Fifer, Lachlan Frawley, Claire Furyk, Adam Guilfoyle, Zunayed Kabir, Yasmean Kalam, Andrew Marriott, Harry Pearce, Oliver Swallow, Sloane Birrell, Kate Booth, Nevin Chen, Jason Cox, Angus Lee, Teagan Omston, Sarah Aitken, Gabriella Charlton, Nadine Elias, Nima Iranpour, Amy Laurence, John Quoyle, Michael Suen, Janani Thillainadesan, Husein Al Talib, Suellyn Centauri, Chris Ee, Elliot Gin, Wan Wan Hassan, Kumail Jaffry, Brian Koo, Yigeng Li, Jack Menzie, Phi Nguyen, Jasprit Singh, Evie Yeap, David Zula, Megan Banks, Ines Clement, Chathumi Hettiarachchi, Elizabeth Hines, Subham Kulshrestha, Rohan Kumar, Katherine Magpily, Kelly Nam, Henry Nguyen, Toby Richards, Louise de Prinse, Conor Keely, Linda Partridge, Vanessa Scotland, Charlotte Wade, Mitchell Baker, Matt Brown, Shirley Cai, Janae Chew, Amanda Dawson, Yannick De Silva, Isabella Dong, Hugh Elbourne, Shubhang Hariharan, Robert Kibuuka, Matthew Kwon, Hui Ying Lee, Jacky Lin, Vivian Lin, Elizabeth Lun, Andrew Middleton, Shawn Ng, Sylvia Ng, Vanessa Ng, Tin Ngan, Ramanathan Palaniappan, Madison Roussos, Aasim Shakoor, Jenny Siu, Cyril Tang, Joyce Wang, Daniel Wong, Douglas Young, Felix Ziergielbel, Harvey Chong, Natasha Pearson, Nicholas Quirk, Helen Roberts, Jeanene Douglas, Paul Healey, Monique Magnusson, Samuel Fell, Tracy Hess, Jack Petersen, Brynley Russell, Suresh Singaravelu, Suet Ling Goh, Yuxi Ren, Amy Skiller, Ryan Ammendolea, Dhiraj Bhatia, Aun Chian, Amy Dai, Tom Darling, Patrick Galloway, Travis Holmes, Alex Kwong, Eugene Lai, Sitong Li, Nicholas Lui, James Moshinsky, Josh Nguyen, Brenda Phillips, Joshua Wibowo, Rona Zhao, Annetta Zheng, Nicole Humphreys, Jacqueline Lake, Jade Radnor, Stephen Surace, Hengkang Yan, Shahad AlBadri, Chun Chan, Mitch Collins, Stefan Genat, Rose Hadden, Manon Jenkins, Jackson Ji, Harry LeMass, Julian Soh, Jaqueline Close, Ghalia Feddah, Sonya Jung, Priscilla Marneros, Bridie Peters, Vishal Shah, Casey Allen, Kieran Armstrong, Roxanne Bain, Raghav Balakrishnan, Danielle Crimmins, Jaya Gounder, Alex Hickey, David Highton, Allison Kearney, Alexis Kenny, Ben King-Koi, Samuel Lawler, Agnes Leung, Renee Shaw, Joy Turner, Sara Ali, Lachlan Clarke, Ashfaq Hussain, Jimin Kang, Nadine Mahgoub, Beena Parker, Alanna Platz, Raqeeb Rasul, Edward Ricketts, Mathew Bolland, Kerry Chen, Elaine Chilcott, Jai Darvall, Harsch Kothari, Neeraj Limaye, Nur Lubis, Ashley St John, Andrew Tan, Kelsey Turner, Hannah Van Eeekelen, Anurag Vijay, Brian Yip, Sophie Connolly, Ben-Menachem Erez, Lucinda Swan, Cheuk Shan Choi, Tang Howard, Luojia Li, Cindy Lin, Joanne Liu, Ningyi Lu, Peter Williams, Jason Wong, Justin Yeung, Zhonghao Zhang, Victor Zhao, Divya Barathy Sugumaran, Dani Brewster-O'brien, Denise Chia, Liam Clifford, Charlotte Cornwell, Mahli Kumarasinhe, Richard McGee, Aditya Patil, Rhys Rodrigues, Edward Zhang

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthetics, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Research Department of Targeted Intervention, University College London, London, UK.
⁴ Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Academic Unit of Injury, Recovery and Inflammation Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.
⁶ Queensland Anaesthetic Registrars' Research Collaborative, Brisbane, Australia.
⁷ Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
⁹ Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁰ Princess Alexandra Southside Clinical Unit, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
¹¹ Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia.
¹² University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
¹³ Department of Geriatric Medicine and Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁴ Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁵ Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London, London, UK.
¹⁶ Department of Ageing and Health, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁷ Anaesthesia, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.

PMID: 41039967
DOI: 10.1111/ans.70335

No abstract available

Keywords: delirium; frailty syndrome; health services research; multimorbidity; perioperative care.

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Sprint National Anaesthesia Project 3: A Survey of the Workload Generated by Older Surgical Patients Referred to On-Call Medical Registrars in Australia

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