Resources

Standards and Guidelines

• International Standards for the Safe Practice of Anaesthesia - produced by WFSA in 2010 to provide guidance to anaesthesia professionals, professional societies, hospital and facility administrators, and governments for improving and maintaining the quality and safety of anaesthesia care. The latest 2018 version can be found here.
• SAFE-T Campaign. See here.
• WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery: Safe Surgery Saves Lives. See here.

Partnerships and Programs

• RCoA Global Partnerships Strategy
• World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists: Uniting anaesthesiologists to improve patient care and access to safe anaesthesia.
• WFSA Anaesthesia Workforce Map: An ongoing project to map the anaesthesia workforce
• Safe Surgery 2020 Programs: Aiming to reduce preventable deaths from surgically treatable conditions though collaboration with ministries of health, academia, NGOs and surgical teams in low-income areas
• Lifebox Foundation: International non-profit working to make surgery and anaesthesia safer on a global scale. Includes projects such as Pulse oximetry, WHO Surgical Safety Checklist & Clean Cut
• The Association of Anaesthetists global partnership: mapping partnerships with the aim to increase collaboration and share knowledge and experience between projects

Educational Resources

• e-SAFE Anaesthesia: An e-learning package on USB developed for anaesthetists working in resource limited areas
• SAFE (Safer Anaesthesia from Education) Courses: Find details on the 3 day courses in Obstetric, Paediatric Anaesthesia, SAFE Operating Room as well as training the trainers on the Association of Anaesthetists website
• Essential Pain Management: Developed by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, EPM has been taught in many countries and translated into several languages. The global success of EPM has led to the development of an EPM sub-committee of ANZCA and development of the UK based EPM Advisory Group, now based at the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the RCoA.
• Health Books International: Formally ‘Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC). Provides books, downloads, teaching aids and equipment on a not-for-profit basis. They offer a wide range of materials spanning many areas of practice and diverse health subjects.