WWW

UEMS EBA Workforce, Working conditions, Welfare Standing Committee

We care about our patients! We care about our workforce!

Chairperson: Ioana Grigoras (Romania)

Co-chair: Nancy Redfern (UK)

WWW standing committee covers aspects of the work of Anaesthesiologists related to:
 - Workforce e.g. staffing and workload
 - Working conditions e.g. working hours, night duties
 - Welfare e.g. stress, bullying, substance abuse etc
 - Assistance to the anaesthesiologist

PROJECTs


  • The fatigue project (2019-ongoing)
  • The ageing anaesthesiologist project (2018-2020)

             Publication of a EBA/ESA joint position paper (Eur J Anaesthesiol 2020; 37:1081–1083) – see below List of publications



                    

FATIGUE PROJECT


  • On the 19th of October 2019 the European Board of Anaesthesiology approved the FATIGUE PROJECT of the EBA Workforce, Working Conditions, Welfare Standing Committee.

 

  • Aims of the project:
    • To collect and publish data about the work-related fatigue of European anaesthesiologists
    • To raise awareness of fatigue-related consequences on patient safety, and on anaesthesiologists wellbeing
    • To promote a change of culture and regulations at all levels – anaesthesiologist, departments, hospital managers, regulatory bodies
    • To promote implementation of a Fatigue Risk Management System within European countries
    • To enhance actions of other specialties
    • To promote a change of regulations in healthcare at the European level

 

  • Collaboration with other organizations:
    • ESAIC Trainee Committee
    • ESAIC NASC Committee
    • European Junior Doctors
    • EBA Patient Safety Committee
    • EBA Professional Development Committee
    • ESAIC Guideline Committee
    • European Patient Safety Foundation

 

  • Surveys (run from September 2021 to March 2022) distributed by National Societies via EBA and NASC and by Trainee network.

Certified anaesthesiologists – 1577 responders

Trainees in Anaesthesiology - 1252 responders

 

  • Publications:
    • How to balance and avoid fatigue during residency Antonia Kustura, Dilara Akcal (Trainees Committee Education Taskforce), ESAIC Newsletter July 2022

https://www.esaic.org/esa-news/newsletter-july-2022-resident-corner-how-to-balance-and-avoid-fatigue-during-residency/

 

  • Fatigue in anaesthesiology. Call for a change of culture and regulations

Nancy Redfern, Federico Bilotta, Igor Abramovich and Ioana Grigoras, Editorial. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2023; 40:78–81. https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/Fulltext/2023/02000/Fatigue_in_anaesthesiology__Call_for_a_change_of.2.aspx

 

Publications:

Getting old

Nancy Redfern, Paul Clyburn, Ioana Grigoras, Paul Calleja, Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, Vesna NovakJankovic, Ilona Bobek, Stefan De Hert, Kai Zacharowski and Edoardo De Robertis, Editorial, Eur J Anaesthesiol 2020; 37:1081–1083.

https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2020&issue=12000&article=00001&type=Fulltext

 

Fatigue in anaesthesiology. Call for a change of culture and regulations

Nancy Redfern, Federico Bilotta, Igor Abramovich and Ioana Grigoras, Editorial. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2023; 40:78–81. https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/Fulltext/2023/02000/Fatigue_in_anaesthesiology__Call_for_a_change_of.2.aspx

 

Fatigue amongst anaesthesiology and intensive care trainees in Europe A matter of concern

Igor Abramovich, Bernardo Matias, Gustavo Norte, Mateusz Zawadka, Federico Bilotta, Iulian Buzincu, Anne Marie Camilleri Podesta, Stefan De Hert, Ioana Grigoras, Georgiana Pintilie, Aidan Smallwood, Alexandra Trinks and Nancy Redfern, Original article, Eur J Anaesthesiol 2023; 40:1–9.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37166259 Online ahead of print.

 


EBA 2023