Improving safety and quality in regional anesthesia: An innovative app for Indian national regional anesthesia audit database, regional anesthesia database App

Abstract

Regular audit of our own practice has shown to improve quality and safety. Practitioners across the world are able to do it at individual levels but are unable to benchmark it due to unavailability of national or international data. Regional anesthesia has seen an exponential growth in the recent years [1]. In the enthusiasm, many are adopting the newer techniques without appropriate training. Do they know, how well they are doing?, Do they know, they are not causing any harm, and do they know, they are up to standards? In the end, we are all accountable for the service we provide to our patients, surgeons, and institutions [2]. Audits are contractual requirement across many institutions and medical boards around the world. Many anesthetists are quite aware of the audit requirements in their practice but rarely have the time and resources. Moreover, there are significant hurdles and difficulty in establishing clinical audits in real-world practice [7, 8].