Anaesthetic practitioners in the UK: promise, perils and psychology

Modelling the economic constraints and consequences of anaesthesia associate expansion in the UK National Health Service: a narrative review

“…AAs may help departments comply with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) for trainees and substantive staff, provide continuity within a department, and allow more rapid ‘on-boarding’ of new staff and provide a pathway for theatre staff to progress in their career development. 24 All these activities contribute to productivity, even if the result cannot be quantified in every case. Outside of the operating theatre, AAs could provide service to obstetric anaesthesia and intensive care units.…”

Nonphysician Sedation Providers in Africa: What Counts and What Is Being Counted?

“…Next, one must acknowledge that randomized trials are hard to perform, are resource-intensive, and require specialized infrastructure. The conduct of such a trial would be challenging anywhere in the world, 9 but particularly so in the poorest countries. Ironically, this question is arguably most important in the poorest countries because of an increased frequency of harm directly attributable to anesthesia.…”

Pride and prejudice

“…We have continually refined our practice to ensure that high-risk patients have a better chance of surviving major surgery [5]. We have been open and enquiring to new ways of working in multi-disciplinary partnerships [6,7], and we have gone back to the laboratory to consider the basic building blocks of our science [8,9]. We have fearlessly re-examined the sacred cows taught us by our predecessors, and discarded them where evidence is lacking or outcomes perverse [10][11][12].…”