Safety & Quality Committee
The Safety and Quality Committee promotes the highest standards of safety and quality in anaesthesia globally, providing support across the full range of WFSA programmes.
Key Committee Aims:
- Foster safe and high-quality anaesthesia practice in all WFSA Member Societies.
- Maintain, disseminate, and advocate for WHO-WFSA International Standards for Safe Practice in Anaesthesia
- Ensure effective communication in innovative practices, having considered the financial and social constraints that may prevent their adoption by all Member Societies.
- Develop partnerships with other organisations that share our values regarding safety and quality.
- Seek new methods to implement safe practices throughout the world.
- Seek funding and support for WFSA activities relating to safety and quality, and work to expand those activities.
- Promote, support, and organise activities for World Patient Safety Day (17 September).
2024-2026 Safety and Quality Committee Activities:
- Strengthening collaboration with Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
- Advocacy for Perioperative Patient Blood Management (P-PBM)
Additional Resources:
Members of the Safety and Quality Committee:
| Chair | |
| Erlinda Dela Cruz Oracion | Philippines |
| Deputy Chair | |
| Le Shen | China |
| Africa and the Middle East | |
| Edwin Lugazia | Tanzania |
| Samia Madi-Jebara | Lebanon |
| Naima Yusuf | Tanzania |
| Asia | |
| Apurb Sharma | Nepal |
| Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands | |
| Airton Bagatini | Brazil |
| Jorge H Rubio | Colombia |
| Europe | |
| Hilal Ayoglu | Türkiye |
| Benedikt Preckel | Netherlands |
| Jonas Wrigstad (Co-opted) | Sweden |
| North America | |
| Beverley Orser | Canada |
| Elizabeth Rebello | USA |
| Karen C. Nanji | USA |
