About WikiAnesthesia

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

WikiAnesthesia is written by and for anesthesia practitioners..., Collate available information from elsewhere.... Discussion....

More information about the organization can be found at: The WikiAnesthesia Foundation/Organization

Using WikiAnesthesia

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

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.

To find out more about the structure of WikiAnesthesia see the Structure section within the Style Guide. (or separate page)

Contributing to WikiAnesthesia

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

- Emphasize that writing is good way of learning, that trainees know what other trainees need to know to encourage them to write

-

- Mention scoring/rewards

WikiAnesthesia also needs coders, illustrators, and...