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Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors, 2e by The full-colour Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors, significantly updated for this second edition, combines patient safety information and evidence-based guidance for over 300 commonly encountered clinical situations. With a format that suggests conversations between an attending and a trainee, the book helps you identify potential problems and develop a treatment plan to minimize the problem.
Stop Before You Block (SB4YB) is an initiative that started at Nottingham University Hospital in 2010 following a series of inadvertent wrong-sided nerve blocks. Below are some resources for anaesthesia departments to use in in the operating theatre and for educational purposes, and to help individual anaesthetists to take part in the “Stop before you block” campaign, supported by ANZCA.
Safety alerts are published in each edition of the monthly ANZCA E-Newsletter and the quarterly ANZCA Bulletin, and information/alerts to keep you up to date are available form the Safety Alerts page on the ANZCA website.
Trying to keep up-to-date? Try our Keeping current guide.
Want to find resources related to CPD? Check out our Professional development hub.
Want to test your knowledge? Check out our Self-assessment tools guide.
Looking for clinical resources and information related to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak? Try the Coronavirus/COVID-19 guide.
ANZCA’s Safety and Quality Committee (SQC) works with fellows and ANZCA Council to support safe clinical practice in anaesthesia and pain medicine. SQC actively monitors and evaluates safety and quality information and develops standards and guidelines, including the college’s professional documents.
More information about the college's safety and advocacy work can be found on the ANZCA Safety and Advocacy webpage.
ANZCA acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present, and emerging.
ANZCA acknowledges and respects Māori as the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa and is committed to upholding the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, fostering the college’s relationship with Māori, supporting Māori fellows and trainees, and striving to improve the health of Māori.
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