30/04/2022
WFATS: Proposition of a Compulsory Adequate Training Program of Anaesthesia Technologists and Technicians, Before Using Advanced and Modern Anaesthesia Equipment and Devices in the Safe Practices of Anaesthesia Service Delivery.
REVIEW
WFATS are constituting of formal training and appraisal before using modern and advanced anaesthesia equipment and devices in anaesthesia safe service delivery globally.
This article aim to explores the attitudes, evidence, comparisons, and recommendations of training on modern, advanced devices and equipment in anaesthesia services delivery in line with global best practice.
The WFATS recently encounter and considered some number of principles that led to the evolution of “WFATS Vision 2025”, which states, “that anaesthesia technology professionals who practices advanced anaesthesia devices and equipment maintenance, installation, troubleshooting, and testing, which precisely affect patient’s vital functions and enhanced safety, can be certified with level of training antecedent to such clinical utilisation.
Including Factors:
a). The drastic increased of complex modern anaesthesia equipment and devices,
b). The prevalence of human avoidable error base on equipment-related incidents,
c). The inefficiency implicit in conventional in-service training, “On the bench training”
d). The known advantages of intensive training in complex tasks, and
e). The indications reflecting the deficiency of not completing a compulsory training.
The most effective attitude and approach to successfully attain such training is simple and thereby requires a cautious inquiry.
The goals for WFATS visions were to:
1. To define the problems and the deficiencies in conventional training,
2. To establish the limitations and impediments inherent in mandating training,
3. The description new approaches to training that will be more successful and certified.
4. Consider parallel endpoints and successes from other healthcare professionals model,
5. Exploring the medical jurisprudence and regulatory pressures guide such efforts, and
6. To initiate discussion that will promote and targeted efforts at implementation.
WFATS suggested that, it will be of a great ideal to be a collective opinion, on a round table with great minds, which will involve anaesthesia technologists, anaesthesiologists, administrators, regulatory body, manufacturers and safety industries to participate. Approximately 25 persons in attendance. In other to addressed the above stated achievable goals.
This will continue in our next post on anaesthesia technology practices.
