As part of its mandate to promote high-quality research, the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society recognizes the need to ensure appropriate moral and ethical behaviour on the part of investigators who conduct clinical research with human subjects in Canada

With the advent of modern electronic anesthesia delivery systems, it is recognised that a single checkout recommendation is not applicable to all systems. Not only does equipment design differ, but the automated checkout procedures built into these systems may or...

There are more than 200,000 Canadians living with permanent pacemakers or implantable defibrillators, many of whom will require surgery or invasive procedures each year. They face potential hazards when undergoing surgery; however, with appropriate planning and education of operating room...

The world faces a significant climate change, not only resulting in rising temperatures, sea level rise, drought and flooding but also impacting human health, leading to an increased utilization of healthcare resources. Concerningly, the healthcare sector itself contributes substantially to...

Objective: To provide guidelines for reducing the environmental impact of general anaesthesia. Design: A committee of ten experts from SFAR and SF2H and SFPC learned societies was set up. A policy of declaration of competing interests was applied and observed...

This document has been developed to guide health authorities in implementing patient blood management (PBM) as a national standard of care The aim is to improve the blood health status of the population in general as well as to improve...

The study has specified the content of care that should be provided to all critically ill patients. Implementing EECC could be an effective strategy for policy makers to reduce preventable deaths worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes the first global guidelines to prevent the occurrence of bloodstream and other infections caused by use of catheters placed in minor blood vessels during medical procedures.

The Global patient safety report provides a foundational understanding of the current state of patient safety globally.

The World Health Organization (WHO) presents the Patient1 Safety Rights Charter, a key resource intended to support the implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030: Towards eliminating avoidable harm in healthcare.

Overview of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030

reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations have identified the increasing endemic burden of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial-resistant infections, which harm patients every day across health care systems in all countries, regardless of income status....

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This report, developed for the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, emphasizes the necessity of incorporating palliative care into primary health care (PHC) for ethical, public health, and economic reasons. It presents a model for integrating palliative care at various...

This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines. It contains a summary of the Committee’s considerations and justifications for additions and changes to the Model Lists, including its...