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.

This page offers a brief introduction to using and contributing to WikiAnesthesia.

• More information about the organization can be found at WikiAnesthesia: Administration
• More information about using the Editor and other site functions can be found at WikiAnesthesia: Using the Site
• Guidance on writing and editing articles can be found at WikiAnesthesia: Editing Guide
• More information on getting credit for contributions can be found at WikiAnesthesia: Getting credit for contributions

Using WikiAnesthesia

The Wiki

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: Editing Guide.

Article pages also have the following features:

• Notes: Save your own private notes on individual pages, for example to remember the preferences of the attendings or surgeons you work with.
• Discussion: Discuss the content of pages with other WikiAnesthesia users

WikiAnesthesia Content

The Surgical Case Reference

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:

• Appendectomy
• Donor nephrectomy
• Craniotomy for extracranial-intracranial revascularization

Everything Else

In addition to the surgical case reference, users are actively developing the following sections to create an even more comprehensive resource:

• Anesthesia Drug Reference
• Anesthesia Considerations for Comorbid Diseases
• Airway Management, Procedures, and Regional Anesthesia Techniques
• Anesthesia Anatomy and Physiology
• Anything else you want to write!

The Future

More features are planned for the future to make WikiAnesthesia even more useful, these include:

• A home for institutional guidelines...
• Translations...
• etc.
• etc.

Contributing to WikiAnesthesia

There are lots of ways to contribute to WikiAnesthesia, whatever your profession, training level, or location.

• To write a brand new page, browse the Table of Contents and select an article in red to create that page, apply a template and begin writing
• To edit any page click 'Edit' next to the title of the page and begin editing
• Discussing pages also contributes by giving feedback and asking questions so that other editors can optimize pages
• Making edits can gain you recognitiion for scholarly activity, see WikiAnesthesia: Getting credit for contributions for more information
• If you'd like to contribute in any other way, get in touch at ____