Patient Safety & Quality

Patient safety in surgery and anaesthesia now extends well beyond the WHO checklist into human factors engineering, crisis resource management, and the systemic prevention of wrong-site, retained-item, and medication errors. GCSA 2027 will cover sugammadex-driven reduction of residual neuromuscular blockade, quantitative train-of-four monitoring, BIS and processed EEG to limit anaesthetic exposure, and the environmental footprint of inhaled anaesthetics — including the global desflurane phaseout and low-flow practice. Sessions also address surgeon and anaesthetist burnout, second-victim support, and AI-enabled safety event detection from the EHR.