Education for anaesthesia providers worldwide
Volume 33
January 2019
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Alan Jay Schwartz
Associate Editor(s): Christina Lundgren and Victoria Howell
ISSN 1253-4882
- The Vital Anaesthesia Simulation Training (VAST) course: immersive simulation designed for low-resource settings
- Global challenge for patient safety
- Global surgery, obstetrics and anaesthesia metamorphosis
- Surgical capacity indicators
- The SAFE-T Summit 2018: implications for the WFSA Safety and Quality of Practice Committee
- Progress and challenges in global surgical and anaesthesia care and safety: proceedings of the SAFE-T Summit 2018
- Transforming surgical and anaesthesia capacity and safety – the path to success: the European Society of Anaesthesiologists’ perspective
- The NGO perspective: SAFE operating theatre
- Safe anaesthesia for everybody – today’s initiative: the anaesthesia patient safety perspective
- The WFSA SAFE-T Summit: overview and commentary
- World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklis
- Patient Safety Update: Infusion safety, preoperative assessment, bone cement implantation syndrome
- Patient Safety Update: Central Neuraxial Blockade, Drug Errors and ‘Never Events’
- Successful management of malignant hyperthermia without dantrolene in paediatric anaesthesia
The Journal of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
NEW UPDATE TEAM
Editor-in-chief
Alan Jay Schwartz (USA)
Associate Editors
Christina Lundgren (SA)
Victoria Howell (UK)
Emeritus Editor-in-chief
Bruce McCormick (UK)
Editorial Board of Update in Anaesthesia
Douglas Bacon (USA)
Gustavo Elena (Argentina)
Martin Chobli (Benin)
Dr Aboudoul-Fataou Ouro-Bang’na Maman (Togo)
Dr David Pescod (Australia)
Dr Jeanette Thirlwell (Australia)
Dr Isabeau Walker (UK)
SS Harsoor (India)
Kazuyoshi Hirota (Japan
)Zhanggang Xue (China)
Jing Zhao (China)
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