Developing a national surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia plan is an important first step for
countries to strengthen their surgical systems and improve surgical care. Barriers to …

Purpose To evaluate if anesthesia training and experience influenced chart completion and
accuracy. Methods One hundred and twenty-four subjects, including medical students …

At this point in time, there is a major discrepancy in the availability of essential surgery and
safe anesthesia between populations in affluent nations and those who live in low-or middle …

Anesthesiologists care for patients of all ages, with all conceivable comorbidities, in every
kind of health care facility. This leads to a significant challenge in the collection of data to …

The gold standard for generating new medical knowledge has historically been the
randomized controlled trial, but not all research questions are amenable to such …

ANESTHESIA and surgery have a prominent role in health care, and during the last decade
major innovations in anesthesia, surgical technology, and perioperative care have occurred …

The last decade has seen an explosion in the growth of digital data. Since 2005, the total
amount of digital data created or replicated on all platforms and devices has been doubling …

BACKGROUND: There is a large global deficit of anesthesia providers. In 2016, the World
Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) conducted a survey to count the …

Objective: We aimed to define a globally applicable list of surgical procedures, or “basket,”
which could represent a health system's capacity to provide surgical care and standardize …

Every year, around 300 million surgical procedures are performed worldwide 1, 2, with an
estimated 4% early postoperative mortality rate. 3, 4 However, little is known about global …