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The WFSA Global Anesthesia Workforce Survey.

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The authors recommend an interim goal of at least 5 specialist physician anesthesia providers (anesthesiologists) per 100,000 population to have any hope of achieving safe anesthesia for all by 2030.
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BACKGROUND:Safe anesthesia and surgical care are not available when needed for 5 billion of the world’s 7 billion people. There are major deficiencies in the specialist surgical workforce in many parts of the world, and specific data on the anesthesia workforce are lacking.METHODS:The World Federati

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TL;DR: Progress toward the metrics being included in core indicator lists by the World Health Organization and the World Bank are discussed and how they have been, or may be, used to inform National Surgical Plans in low- and middle-income countries to scale-up the delivery of safe, affordable, and timely surgical and anesthesia care to all who need it.
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Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development

TL;DR: The need for surgical services in low- and middleincome countries will continue to rise substantially from now until 2030, with a large projected increase in the incidence of cancer, road traffic injuries, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in LMICs.
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Surgery and global health: a view from beyond the OR

TL;DR: Careful scrutiny of local inequalities of risk and access to care reveals that in poor countries, even minor surgical pathologies are often transformed through time and inattention into lethal conditions.
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The Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology.

TL;DR: The Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology represents a shared European view of that which is worthy, achievable, and needed to improve patient safety in anaesthesiology in 2010.
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International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anesthesia 2010

TL;DR: These standards1 are recommended for anesthesia professionals throughout the world to provide guidance and assistance to anesthesia professionals, their professional societies, hospital and facility administrators, and governments for improving and maintaining the quality and safety of anesthesia care.
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