International anesthesia standards updated with WHO in global effort to improve surgical care
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The standards are recommended for anaesthesia professionals throughout the world and are intended to provide guidance and assistance to anaesthesia professionals, their professional societies, hospital and facility administrators, and governments for improving and maintaining the quality and safety of anaesthesia care. They were first adopted by the WFSA on
The launch of the International Standards marks the increasing importance of surgery and anaesthesia within global health policy. Recent seminal papers have highlighted major discrepancies in the provision of safe anaesthesia and surgery worldwide [1, 2].
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"It is the hope of both organizations that ministries of health and hospital administrators will strive to implement them, if they are not already achieving the described level," he added.
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"Worldwide, enormous disparities exist between high-income and low-income countries regarding risk of patient death from anaesthesia care. This international standard sets a reasonable, high standard to prevent unnecessary deaths due to unsafe practices, such as lack of monitoring, lack of essential medicines and lack of trained personnel,"
The International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anaesthesia will be discussed at an unofficial side event during the
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