{"id":1604,"date":"2018-10-10T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T02:39:18","slug":"closing-the-global-anaesthesia-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2018\/10\/10\/closing-the-global-anaesthesia-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the global anaesthesia gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/302000591?app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 10th Oct 2018\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surgery is essential for improving a nation\u2019s health, but it has been under-recognised in global public health initiatives. In 2015, three important events highlighted this: The World Bank cost-effectiveness analysis of surgery and anaesthesia, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, and the World Health Assembly resolution on Safe Surgery and Anaesthesia.\u00a0 A \u201cglobal anaesthesia crisis\u201d \u2013 the gap in access to safe anaesthesia in many low and middle income countries \u2013 is a barrier to advancing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Dr McQueen will discuss the factors that limit access to anaesthesia and patient safety in many countries.\u00a0 Improving anaesthesia education is central to closing the anaesthesia gap and to achieving the related goals of best outcomes and safety.\u00a0 Dr McQueen\u2019s presentation will focus on solutions for the global anaesthesia crisis including appropriate education strategies for advancing anaesthesia education in LMICs, and processes for benchmarking the programs implemented.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Kelly McQueen<\/strong> is a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Vanderbilt University. She is the founder and the Inaugural President of the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence, an integrated society of the International Surgical Society. Kelly is the Founder and President of The Global Surgical Consortium, a public charity committed to improving safe anaesthesia and surgery in low-income countries. She serves on the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesia Publications Committee.\u00a0 Previously Dr McQueen has also served as the President of the Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists, and the Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Global Humanitarian Outreach.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly has volunteered for more than 25 years for a number of humanitarian organizations including the American Society of Anesthesiology\u2019s Overseas Teaching Program, Operation Smile and Doctors without Borders. She currently conducts research in low-income countries assessing anaesthesia and surgical infrastructure, the global burden of pain, perioperative mortality rates and patient safety.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2005 Colorado College honoured Dr McQueen with the Benezet Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian work. In 2010, the International College of Surgeons presented her with the Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Award.\u00a0 In 2011, she received the Arizona Medical Association Humanitarian of the Year Award. In 2016, the University of Vermont, College of Medicine honoured her with a Service to Medicine and Community Award, and in 2017 she was honoured with the American Society of Anesthesiologists Nicholas M Greene Award for Outstanding Humanitarian Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery is essential for improving a nation\u2019s health, but it has been under-recognised in global public health initiatives. In 2015, three important events highlighted this: The World Bank cost-effectiveness analysis of surgery and anaesthesia, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, and the World Health Assembly resolution on Safe Surgery and Anaesthesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7945,12691,12664,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anaesthetic","category-global-health","category-surgery","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}