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The Bare Minimum: the reality of global anaesthesia and patient safety
Citation
McQueen, K and Coonan, T and Ottaway, A and Hendel, S and Bagutifils, PR and Froese, A and Neighbor, R and Perndt, H, The Bare Minimum: the reality of global anaesthesia and patient safety, World Journal of Surgery, 39, (9) pp. 2153-60. ISSN 0364-2313 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/s00268-015-3101-x
Abstract
Introduction: Current guidelines for the provision of safe anaesthesia from the World Health Organization and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) are unachievable in a majority of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) worldwide.
Methods: Current guidelines for anaesthesia and patient safety provisions from the WHO and WFSA are compared with local ability to achieve these recommendations in LMICs.
Conclusions: Influential international organizations have historically published anaesthesia guidelines, but for the most part, without impacting substantial documentable changes or outcomes in low-income environments. This analysis, and subsequent recommendations, reviews the effectiveness of existing strategies for international guidelines, and proposes practical, step-wise implementation of patient safety approaches for LMICs.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
Research Group: | Clinical sciences |
Research Field: | Surgery |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Clinical health |
Objective Field: | Treatment of human diseases and conditions |
UTAS Author: | Perndt, H (Dr Haydn Perndt) |
ID Code: | 106713 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 25 |
Deposited By: | Medicine |
Deposited On: | 2016-02-18 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-01 |
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