About WikiAnesthesia

WikiAnesthesia is an open-access online collaboration among anesthesia practitioners from around the world. The WikiAnesthesia mission is to make up-to-date, relevant, and unbiased anesthesia knowledge freely available to anyone with an internet connection.

WikiAnesthesia is:

• written by anesthesia practitioners, for anesthesia practitioners
• a continual work in progress; content creation began in 2021 (can we have a stats counter here?)
• a place for all clinical anesthesia content; focus for initial development is currently on the Surgical Case Reference, a concise but clinically comprehensive guide aimed to help any practitioner prepare for a case with which they are unfamiliar or do not perform regularly
• a place for discussion and sharing of personal tips and insights
• a platform for sharing private protocols and guidelines within organizations through Practice Groups

Guidance on writing and editing articles, and receiving academic credit for contributions can be found at WikiAnesthesia: Contributor Guide

For consideration: "More information about the WikiAnesthesia Foundation can be found at About the WikiAnesthesia Foundation"

Using WikiAnesthesia

Disclaimers

Please read the full disclaimers prior to using WikiAnesthesia. Importantly:

• WikiAnesthesia is a community collaboration and most pages can be edited by any member; as such, the accuracy and completeness of the work cannot be guaranteed. WikiAnesthesia is provided "as is", for informational purposes only, and is not intended to serve as medical advice or expert medical opinion.

• The WikiAnesthesia Foundation, the site managers, editors, contributing authors, and other people and organizations related to this site make this information available without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We disclaim any liability, loss, or damage caused by the contents. If you do not wish to be bound by the foregoing cautions and conditions, please do not use this site or service.

Articles

WikiAnesthesia contains individual articles within the structure of the Table of Contents, to find out more about the structure of WikiAnesthesia see the Structure section within WikiAnesthesia Contributor Guide.

Types of articles include:

• Surgical Case References
• Anesthesia Drug References
• Anesthesia Comorbidity References
• Airway Management, Procedures, and Regional Anesthesia Techniques
• Anesthesia Anatomy and Physiology
• Anything else you want to write!

The main focus during initial development is the surgical case reference: a concise but clinically comprehensive guide aimed to help any practitioner prepare for a case with which they are unfamiliar or do not perform regularly. The surgical case references contain the following sections:

• Preoperative:
  • Descriptions of the patient population undergoing this procedure, common comorbidities, preoperative patient optimization, operating room preparation, and suitable regional/neuraxial techniques
• Intraoperative:
  • Considerations for induction and maintenance of anesthesia, airway management, monitoring, positioning, and the steps of the surgical procedure of relevance to the anesthesia practitioner
• Postoperative:
  • Considerations for emergence, disposition, and complications in the immediate postoperative period of relevance to the anesthesia practitioner

Use the search box to find the case you're looking for, browse the table of contents, or take a look at these featured pages:

Can we have the featured articles box here?

Saved Pages

If this feature is implemented

Notes

The location of the Notes and Discussion function when viewing articles

Registered users can create their own private notes on any page by clicking My notes within the Page menu. You can use this to make notes on your specific approach to cases, for example.

Any technical info people should know? e.g., backups, space limitation?

Discussion

Registered users are encouraged to discuss articles with the community, click the Discussion button within the Page menu, enter a topic name and begin. The discussion page is visible to non-registered users, and can be used to talk about potential changes to the article, personal tips, and recommendations.

Practice Groups

Practice groups is a feature that allows members of an organization to use the WikiAnesthesia platform to create and curate local anesthesia practices and protocols.

Need some more brief introduction to the PGs

Find out more at the Practice Groups section in the Contributor Guide.

The Future

Any future plans vs. ideas we want here, e.g., journal watch/summaries, the polls, research

- If you have ideas for future development, or would like to contribute to WikiAnesthesia development contact:

Contributing to WikiAnesthesia

There are lots of ways to contribute to WikiAnesthesia, whatever your profession, training level, or location through creating, editing, and discussing articles on the main site or within your Practice Group. For a full guide to contributing, including receiving academic credit for your contributions see the WikiAnesthesia Contribution Guide. In addition, if you would like to contribute to WikiAnesthesia administration please contact the administration team.

FAQ

Need some questions here! Thoughts: who runs WA, who pays/how is it free/is it trustworthy