Anaesthetics
Current anaesthetic practice is provided using a combination of many different available techniques and drugs, with the primary aim of ensuring patient safety and high-quality care are provided for patients. Anaesthesia today is extremely safe, with mortality less than one death in 250 000 directly related to anaesthetic intervention alone. This is due to a continued focus on the principles of patient safety and quality of care, underpinned by continued innovation in pharmacology, applied physiology, physics, and engineering. These have yielded improved techniques and technologies to enhance airway management, provide ventilatory assistance and haemodynamic support, and monitor physiological parameters. Modern professional practice is continually seeking to improve by emphasizing the importance of individual non-technical skills in educational curricula and the workplace. In addition, anaesthetists are heavily involved in the integration of human factors science into health-care organizations.