Regional Sections of the WFSA
- Africa Regional Section (ARS)
- Asian Australasian Regional Section (AARS)
- Confederation of Latin American Societies of Anaesthesiologists (CLASA)
- Pan Arab Federation of Societies of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management (PAFSA)
- European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA)
Organizations officially liaised with the WFSA
These organisations have agreed to the following.
- An exchange of constitutions
- An invitation to attend relevant General Assemblies as an observer
- A linkage of website (where possible) and co-operation in the promotion of each others World congresses
- A willingness to assist in the scientific programs of such meetings
World Health Organisation (WHO)
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 791 2111, Fax: +41 22 791 3111
Email: info@who.int; Website: http://www.who.int
American Association of Clinical Directors (AACD)
c/o Dr Gavin Thoms, Evaluation & Audit Unit, University Dept. of Anaesthesia
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 161 276 4551; Fax: +44 161 273 5685
Email: gavin.thoms@cmmc.nhs.uk; Website: http://www.aacdhq.org
Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
c/o WHO, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Tel: +41 22 791 3406; Fax: +41 22 791 4286
Email: cioms@who.int; Website: http://www.cioms.ch
International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
111 Queen Anne Avenue North, Suite 501, Seattle WA 98105-6020, United States
Tel: +1 206 283 0311; Fax: +1 206 283 9403;
Email: iaspdesk@iasp-pain.org; Website: http://www.iasp-pain.org.
International Federation of Gynaecology & Obstetrics (FIGO)
Waterloo Court, 10 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 20 7928 1166; Fax: +44 20 7928 7099;
Email: figo@figo.org; Website: http://www.figo.org
International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)
1, ch. De la Voie-Creuse, P.O.Box 56, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland.
Tel: +41 22 749 011; Fax: +41 22 733 3430;
Email: central@iso.org , Website: http://www.iso.org
Technical Secretariat: British Standards Institution,
389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 20 8996 9000; Fax: +44 20 8996 7400;
E-mail: standards.international@bsigroup.com; Website: http://www.bsigroup.com
Societá Italiana di Anestesia, Analgesia e Terapia Intensiva Pediatrica (SIAATIP)
Viale Ofanto N. 221, 71121 Foggia, Italy
Email: siaatip@siaatip.it; Website: http://www.siaatip.it/
Society of Paediatric Anaesthesia in New Zealand and Australia (SPANZA)
Website: http://www.spanza.org.au
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
P O Box 55158, 3330, Madison WI 53705-8958, United States
Tel: +1 608 890 8821; Fax: +1 608 265 3037
Email: wadem@medicine.wisc.edu; Website: http://wadem.medicine.wisc.edu
World Federation of Societies of Critical and Intensive Care Medicine (WFSICCM)
Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Box 93, Addenbrooke’s Hospital,
Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 1223 217889, Fax: +44 1223 217887
Website: http://www.world-critical-care.org
World Society of Intravenous Anaesthesia (SIVA)
c/o Prof Quirino Piacevoli
Via Dardanelli, 23, 00195 Rome, Italy
Website: http://www.worldsiva.org
Society for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia (SUA)
c/o Department of Anaesthesia, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP UK Telephone: +44 116 2502315 Societies
Website: http://www.usgain.com/
Other Societies
(These regularly correspond with the WFSA but are not officially liaised with the WFSA)
- International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)
- Obstetric Anaesthesia Association
- Primary Trauma Care Foundation
- Royal Society of Medicine
Safety and Quality of Practice
- Lifebox
- Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
- The Institute for Safe Medication Practices
- Virtual Anaesthesia Machine Simulation
Practice Advisory and guidelines
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
- Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society
- ANZCA Professional Standards
- Singapore Society of Anaesthesiologists
- National Patient Safety Agency
- Survey of WFSA member societies
Crisis links
- The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland guidelines
- The ESA/EBA Patient Safety Task Force Patient Safety Starter Kit
- The Anaesthetic Crisis Manual by Dr David Borshoff
- Stanford School of Medicine Department of Anaesthesia
- AriadneLabs at the Harvard School of Public Health
Regarding Surgical Checklist:
- BBC news – “Surgical checklist saves lives”
- NEJM – “A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population”
- WHO – Starter Kit for Surgical Checklist Implementation
- WHO – Safe Surgery Saves Lives (videos)
Other useful WHO links
- WHO- Emergency and essential surgical care
- WHO – Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMEESC) tool kit
NPSA alerts:
- Guide to the labelling and packaging of injectable medicines
- Problems with infusions and sampling from arterial lines
- Risks with intravenous heparin flush solutions
- Using vinca alkaloid minibags
- Reducing risk of overdose with midazolam injection in adults
Education Websites
- Committee for European Education in Anaesthesiology (CEEA)
- Center for Simulation Advanced Learning and Technology
- European Virtual Anaesthesia, (Euroviane)
- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Webinars
