Quality Improvement Protocol to Reduce Excessive Postoperative Recovery Following Cleft Palate Repair.
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed January 2026 by Dr Tom Walker
This Australian single-centre quality improvement (QI) study focussed on the anaesthetic management of children undergoing cleft palate repair with the primary aim of reducing PACU length of stay. ...
Optimizing pediatric tonsillectomy outcomes with an opioid sparing anesthesia protocol
Learning and continuously improving with real-world data
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed March 2025 by Dr David Kinchington
This paper is a perspective piece primarily providing insight into how one ambulatory surgical centre utilised quality improvement processes supported by new generation artificial intelligence (AI)...
Evaluation of quality of care in neonatal anesthesia using a bundle of intraoperative parameters
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed December 2023 by Dr Eamonn Upperton
Inspired by the SAFETOTS ‘10Ns’ of quality in paediatric anaesthesia, this paper sets out to measure how often physiological variables stray outside the target range during and after neonatal...
Possibilities and challenges for artificial intelligence and machine learning in perioperative care
British Journal of Anaesthesia Education
Reviewed September 2023 by Dr Hamish Johnston
Summary: There is growing interest for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine to assist in repetitive tasks, diagnosis, prediction, drug discovery, personalised treatment, and decision support....
Reducing the environmental impact of mask inductions in children
A quality improvement report
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed December 2023 by Dr Tracy Jackson
The environmental impact of anaesthetic gases are of increasing concern. In Australia and New Zealand, children are traditionally induced by gas induction with high flow nitrous/oxygen and...
Parents' perspective on recovery at home following adenotonsillectomy
A prospective single-centre qualitative analysis
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
Reviewed September 2023 by Dr Patrick Cowie
Summary: This article explores parental experiences following paediatric adenotonsillectomy. The authors recruited parents of children having adenotonsillectomy over a year-long period at Montreal’s...
What airway management information do anaesthetic charts prompt for? An audit of charts from 132 hospitals across Australia and New Zealand
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Reviewed July 2023 by Dr Ian Miles
This article presents the results of an audit of blank anaesthetic charts from 132 hospitals accredited for training by ANZCA. The charts were evaluated for 17 data fields describing tracheal...
