This page contains information about accessing e-books and print books via the ANZCA Library, as well as linked list of selected books related to Safety and Quality.
How to access e-books
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For further information about searching and accessing e-books, see the E-books guide
Borrowing books
ANZCA library provides access to a large range of print items, specialising in anaesthesia and pain medicine-related titles.
For further information about requesting books, see the Borrowing books page
Anaesthetic Crisis Handbook
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This resource is for educational purposes as well as improving patient safety. It is aimed at a New Zealand audience and a resource for hospitals and staff local to my region to be able to access the resource.
Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings: Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment, 3e
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This book is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. By elucidating the principles of human behavior and decision-making in critical situations and identifying frequent sources of human error, it will help healthcare professionals provide safer, more effective treatment when dealing with emergencies characterized by uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress.
Medication Safety during Anesthesia and the Perioperative Period
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With medication errors in healthcare an internationally recognised problem, this much-needed book delivers a comprehensive approach to understanding medication safety in the perioperative period. It reviews what medication adverse events are, and how often and where these errors occur, as well as exploring human cognitive psychology and explaining why things can go wrong at any time in a complex system.
Perioperative Mortality in New Zealand: Fifth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (the POMRC). Report to the Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand
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This report presents information on perioperative mortality in New Zealand during 2009–2013 for two new clinical areas: 30-day mortality following operations and procedures under general anaesthesia and day-of-the week mortality. As part of the POMRC’s continued surveillance of perioperative mortality over time, rates for a number of clinical areas and procedures included in previous reports are presented here for 2009–2014.
Quick Reference Handbook: Guidelines for Crisis in Anaesthesia
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The guidelines in this handbook are not intended to be standards of medical care. The ultimate judgement with regard to a particular clinical procedure or treatment plan must be made by the clinician in the light of the clinical data presented and the diagnostic and treatment options available.
Safety of Anaesthesia: A Review of Anaesthesia-related Mortality Reporting in Australia and New Zealand 2018-2020
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The 12th triennial Safety of Anaesthesia report has been released and confirms that Australia and New Zealand continue to be incredibly safe countries in which to receive an anaesthetic.
Reflecting the college’s high training standards, and the use of modern airway management tools, data shows this triennium there were no reported Category 1 deaths caused by failures of airway management. Most reported Category 1 deaths related to anaphylaxis, and pulmonary aspiration or its sequalae.
Consistent with previous years, most reported anaesthesia-related deaths related to emergency surgery
(75 per cent). The medical condition of the patient also continued to be a major contributor of reported anaesthesia-related mortality.
Safety of Anaesthesia: A Review of Anaesthesia-related Mortality Reporting in Australia and New Zealand 2015-2017
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Safer Surgery for Africa: Challenges and Solutions
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Almost everyone will need surgery in their lifetime, but in Africa nearly 95% of the population do not have affordable surgery and anaesthesia.
More people die after surgery than from HIV, TB, and malaria combined.
In Africa, adults are twice as likely to die after surgery, and for children that number rockets to eleven. Mothers who need caesarean sections face the greatest risk: the mortality rate is fifty times higher than high-income countries. Most of these deaths do not happen in the operating theatre, but on the ward during recovery.
Through extensive research and personal narratives from physicians across the continent, Professor Bruce Biccard provides a history of death and surgery, describes the current state of surgery in Africa, and presents two models for improving surgical care and outcomes.
Fortunately, the solutions are simple and cost-effective, but making them happen has never been easy; even the basic hygiene we now take for granted was once met with resistance. So Bruce presents a manifesto for surgical health, showing us all how to make the world a healthier place.
Standards and Recommendations for Safe Perioperative Practice, 5e
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The fifth edition of AfPP’s benchmark publication has been revised and updated for 2022. Following the launch of the Standards and Recommendations Online in January, the printed version is now also available to buy.
Written by practitioners for practitioners, ‘Standards and Recommendations for Safe Perioperative Practice’ is the essential reference tool for all theatre departments. It provides comprehensive guidance on evidence-based best practice and minimising risk in and around the operating theatre.
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