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- Recent guidance from the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland emphasizes the importance of purchasing anaesthetic equipment backed by safety and performance evidence.
- Over the years, government oversight on the safety and effectiveness of these devices has diminished, allowing many to enter the market without sufficient clinical evidence.
- In response, the Difficult Airway Society has provided members with guidance on selecting new airway devices based on existing evidence, alongside a brief history of anaesthetic equipment evaluation in the UK.
Article 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.
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