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.

- Written by users (academic credit possible)

- Continual work in progress (but started content in 2021)

- SCR primarily, but also drug reference, comorbidities, procedures, and anything else

- In addition discussion, and practice groups, and more

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

More information about the WikiAnesthesia Foundation can be found at About the WikiAnesthesia Foundation

Using WikiAnesthesia

Disclaimers

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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
Drug References
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:

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