The Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care is based at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH), a 1,637 bed tertiary referral teaching hospital managed by the Hospital Authority (HA) and affiliated with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The hospital provides a wide range of acute specialist services, including both a cardiac and trauma centre. Each year we deliver anaesthetic services for 14,000 operations in the main operating theatre, with one third being emergency cases. An additional 2000 anaesthetics are administered in the labour ward and other areas outside the operating theatre suite. The Intensive Care Unit provides adult medical and surgical critical care for approximately 1700 patients per year.