A web-based anaesthesia incidence reporting system (webAIRS) has been developed as a bi-national database of anaesthesia related events. There are more than 5,200 authorised users at over 240 sites. More than 11,200 incidents have been submitted since the webAIRS database was established in 2009.
Committee members
We gratefully acknowledge the members of this committee for volunteering their time and expertise.
| Title | Name | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Chair (ANZCA member) | Dr Anna Steer | Vic |
| ANZCA President (ex officio) | Professor David Story | Vic |
| ANZCA CEO (ex officio) | Dr Lance Emerson | Vic |
| ANZCA Member | TBA | |
| ANZCA Member | Dr Anna Steer | Vic |
| ANZCA Member | Dr Tim Basevi | NSW |
| ASA President (ex officio) | Dr Vida Viliunas | ACT |
| ASA CEO (ex offico) | Dr Matthew Fisher | NSW |
| ASA member | Dr Fergus Davidson | NSW |
| ASA Member | Dr Jina Hanna | Vic |
| ASA Member | Dr Pieter Peach | Vic |
| NZSA President (ex officio) | Dr Jonathan Panckhurst | NZ |
| NZSA CEO (ex officio) | Ms Kylie McQuellin | NZ |
| NZSA Member | Dr Phillip Quinn | NZ |
| Medical Director, ANZTADC | Dr Yasmin Endlich | SA |
| ANZTADC Coordinator | Susan Considine | Vic |
Content related to ANZTADC
Access prof docs; anaesthesia standards; perioperative anaphylaxis management guidelines; professionalism and performance guidelines; airway management resources; and information on reporting anaesthetic incidents.
The Standards for Anaesthesia and its accompanying background paper are intended to apply to all those in clinical practice within the specialty of anaesthesia wherever anaesthesia services are provided. The aim is for these standards to be used as benchmarks to foster quality in patient care as well as to facilitate quality improvement.
We oversee a range of incident reporting activities in Australia and New Zealand, including mortality reporting and webAIRS, to ensure that we continue to be two of the safest countries in the world to undergo anaesthesia.