The Role of the WFSA in Reaching the Goals of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery

Barreiro, Gonzalo; Mellin‐Olsen, Jannicke; Gore-Booth, Julian

doi:10.1213/ane.0000000000002543

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“…5,6 Efforts to address this barrier through training programs for nurses, surgical/anesthesia trainees and attending physicians have been described. [7][8][9] These and other initiatives clearly have laudable aims, but it is unclear to what degree trainees from low-and middleincome countries (LMICs, or "South") and educational exchanges are used strategically to address disparities in surgical care capacity. Although guidelines for short-term surgical missions with educational components have been published, 10 the likeliest key to addressing the considerable burden of unmet surgical need is through the support of embedded training programs and cultivation of the enormous potential of local surgeons-in-waiting.…”

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North–South surgical training partnerships: a systematic review

Greive-Price¹,

Mistry²,

Baird³

2020

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North–South surgical training partnerships: a systematic review

Greive-Price¹,

Mistry²,

Baird³

2020

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“…One of its strategic priorities is to ensure a well‐trained and resilient workforce 11 . The WFSA has long been a leader in supporting the training of anesthesia providers globally through collaborative educational programs such as their fellowship program structure as well as their short educational courses such as the SAFE Program 12–14 …”

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The role of collaboration in educating the global pediatric anesthesia workforce

Nabukenya,

Newton,

Gray

et al. 2024

Pediatric Anesthesia

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An estimated 1.7 billion children and adolescents do not have access to safe and affordable surgical care, and the vast majority of these are located in low‐middle‐income countries (LMICs). Pediatric anesthesia, a specialized field that requires a diverse set of knowledge and skills, has seen various advancements over the years and has become well‐established in upper‐middle and high‐income countries. However, in LMICs, due to a multitude of factors including severe workforce shortages, this has not been the case. Collaborations play a vital role in increasing the capacity of pediatric anesthesiology educators and training the pediatric anesthesia workforce. These efforts directly increase access for children who require surgical intervention. Collaboration models can be operationalized through bidirectional knowledge sharing, training, resource allocation, research and innovation, quality improvement, networking, and advocacy. This article aims to highlight a few of these collaborative efforts. Specifically, the role that the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, the Safer Anesthesia from Education program, the Asian Society of Pediatric Anaesthesiologists, Pediatric Anesthesia Training in Africa, the Paediatric Anaesthesia Network New Zealand, the Safe Pediatric Anesthesia Network and two WhatsApp™ groups (global ped anesthesia and the Pediatric Difficult Intubation Collaborative) have played in improving anesthesiology care for children.

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“…The density of trained anesthesia providers is extraordinarily lower in some low-income countries than in most high-income countries, with anesthesia mortality rates correspondingly as much as 1,000 times higher. 13 Overall, the use of new in silico technologies as illustrated by Irani et al 1 can be efficiently implemented not only to improve our understanding of drug-receptor interactions at a molecular level but also to possibly pave the way for a brighter future for our specialty through cheaper, safer drugs. This could allow increased access to the "miracle of anesthesia" for an even larger and more diverse group of ill patients throughout both developed and underdeveloped countries and should be one of the major research goals within our specialty.…”

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