Protocols for safety aspects

The Helsinki Declaration requires that every department of anaesthesiology in Europe MUST have the following protocols available:

Preoperative assessment and preparation
Checking equipment and drugs
Syringe labelling
Difficult /failed intubation
Malignant hyperpyrexia
Anaphylaxis
Local anaesthetic toxicity
Massive haemorrhage
Infection-control
Post operative care including pain relief

The EBA/ESA Task Force on Patient Safety therefore has contacted the ESA council members as well as the EBA members and has received informations about national ressources that can be found under the following links.

NOTE: neither ESA nor EBA takes responsability for the content of these documents cited. If you have further informations about useful links to ressources on the internet on protocols of the above mentioned aspects, please send this information to the chairman of the EBA/ESA Task Force on Patient Safety.

National protocols

Czech Republik

Airway control

Antibiotic prophilaxys

Postoperative pain

Regional anaesthesia

Latvia

Latvian Association of Anaesthesia

Spain

Labelling of injectable medicines administered in anaesthesia

The Netherlands

Netherlands Society of Anesthesiology

United Kingdom

AAGBI

	Management of a Patient with Suspected Anaphylaxis During Anaesthesia - Safety Drill
	Suspected Anaphylactic Reactions Associated with Anaesthesia
	Checking Anaesthetic Equipment
	Infection Control in Anaesthesia
	Management of Severe Local Anaesthetic Toxicit
	Management of Severe Local Anaesthetic Toxicit - Accompanying Notes
	Guidelines for the management of a Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis
	Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetist Management of Massive Haemorrhage
	Pre-operative Assessment and Patient Preparation - The Role of the Anaesthetist
	Syringe labelling in critical care area
	Syringe labelling in critical care areas - June 2004 Update