The history of anaesthetic equipment evaluation in the United Kingdom: lessons for developing future strategy

Wilkes, Antony Robert, Pandit, J. J. and O'Sullivan, E. 2011. The history of anaesthetic equipment evaluation in the United Kingdom: lessons for developing future strategy. Anaesthesia 66 (S2) , pp. 34-39. 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06932.x

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Abstract

Recent guidance published by the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland encourages the purchase of equipment based on evidence of safety and performance. For many years, evidence of the safety and performance of anaesthetic equipment was published by various government departments and agencies. However, these schemes were gradually eroded over time such that many devices entered the market with little or no clinical evidence of their efficacy. This recently led to the Difficult Airway Society’s issuing guidance to its members on how best to select new airway devices; guidance that was based on the available evidence. This article provides a short history of the evaluation of anaesthetic equipment in the United Kingdom.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0003-2409
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/29542

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