Mary Ellen Walker, Rashid Mehmood, Justina Koshinsky, Peter Hedlin, Anita Chakravarti, Una Goncin, Darcie Earle, Jennifer M O'Brien
{"title":"Professional fulfillment, burnout, and wellness: a repeated cross-sectional survey in the COVID-19 pandemic era.","authors":"Mary Ellen Walker, Rashid Mehmood, Justina Koshinsky, Peter Hedlin, Anita Chakravarti, Una Goncin, Darcie Earle, Jennifer M O'Brien","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02807-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02807-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1775-1777"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reality check-an urgent call for innovation in Canadian anesthesia care delivery.","authors":"Sylvie Aucoin, Mateen Raazi","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02875-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02875-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1595-1605"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142717919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The anesthesia human resources crisis in Canada.","authors":"Sarah A Leir, Tyler J Law, M Dylan Bould","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02869-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02869-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human resources are essential to the safe and effective functioning of any health care system. Pressure on the health care workforce is of active global concern. There appears to be an anesthesia service delivery crisis in Canada. Recent media headlines have featured vacant physician anesthesiologist positions, closure of maternity units, and postponement of elective surgeries because of a shortage of anesthesiologists. This shortage is most serious in rural and remote communities. This has prompted the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society to publish a position statement on \"Strategies to Address the Surgical Backlog and Health Human Resource Issues in Anesthesia.\"In this article, we discuss the composition and organization of the anesthesia workforce in Canada. We compare the Canadian anesthesia workforce to other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. We contend that the current anesthesia provision model in Canada is not meeting population needs and outline potential solutions to the anesthesia human resources crisis. These include increasing the numbers of anesthesiologists in training, encouraging international medical graduates to migrate to Canada, and various different approaches to task shifting and task sharing.</p>","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1612-1626"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142717951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies to increase access to physician-led anesthesia care in Canada.","authors":"Beverley A Orser, C Ruth Wilson, Naheed K Jivraj","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02874-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02874-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1586-1594"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142803472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of desflurane withdrawal from the hospital: a call for a national ban of desflurane.","authors":"David Bracco, Cristine Bozzer","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02782-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02782-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1778-1779"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141319134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Verret, Manoj M Lalu, Alexandre Assi, Stuart G Nicholls, Alexis F Turgeon, Francois M Carrier, Daniel I McIsaac, Ian Gilron, Fiona Zikovic, Megan Graham, Maxime Lê, Allison Geist, Guillaume Martel, Jason A McVicar, Husein Moloo, Dean Fergusson
{"title":"Use of opioids and opioid alternatives during general anesthesia: a pan-Canadian survey among anesthesiologists.","authors":"Michael Verret, Manoj M Lalu, Alexandre Assi, Stuart G Nicholls, Alexis F Turgeon, Francois M Carrier, Daniel I McIsaac, Ian Gilron, Fiona Zikovic, Megan Graham, Maxime Lê, Allison Geist, Guillaume Martel, Jason A McVicar, Husein Moloo, Dean Fergusson","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02847-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02847-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>While there is limited patient-centred evidence (i.e., evidence that is important for patients and end-users) to inform the use of pharmacologic opioid minimization strategies (i.e., the use of opioid alternatives) for adult surgical patients requiring general anesthesia, such strategies are increasingly being adopted into practice. Our objectives were to describe anesthesiologists' beliefs regarding intraoperative opioid minimizing strategies use and utility, and to explore important clinical decision-making factors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a pan-Canadian web-based survey of anesthesiologists that was distributed using a modified Dillman technique. Our multidisciplinary team, including a patient partners panel, participated in the process of domains and items generation, items reduction, formatting, and composition. Our sampling frames were members of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society and members of the Association des Anesthésiologistes du Québec. We used the newsletters of each organization to distribute our survey, which was available in English and French and housed on the LimeSurvey (LimeSurvey GmbH, Hamburg, Germany) platform.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From our eligible sampling frame, 18% completed the survey (356 respondents out of 2,008 eligible participants). Most of the respondents believed that using opioid minimization strategies during general anesthesia could improve postoperative clinical outcomes, including pain control (84% agree or strongly agree, n = 344/409). Reported use of pharmacologic opioid minimization strategies was variable; however, most respondents believed that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, acetaminophen, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists (ketamine), α<sub>2</sub>-adrenoceptor agonists (dexmedetomidine), corticosteroids, and intravenous lidocaine improve prostoperative clinical outcomes. The primary factors guiding decision-making regarding the use of opioid minimization strategies were postoperative acute pain intensity, the impact of acute pain on functioning, patient well-being (i.e., quality of recovery) and patient satisfaction with care. A lack of evidence was the most important barrier limiting the use of opioid minimization strategies.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In our survey of Canadian anesthesiologists, several opioid minimization strategies were believed to be effective complements to general anesthesia, although there was substantial variation in their reported use. Future randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness of opioid minimization strategies should prioritize patient-centred outcome measures assessment such as the quality of recovery or the impact of acute pain on functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1694-1704"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Micheline Metzner, Kelly Mayson, Geoff Schierbeck, Thomas Wallace
{"title":"The implementation of preoperative optimization in British Columbia: a quality improvement initiative.","authors":"Micheline Metzner, Kelly Mayson, Geoff Schierbeck, Thomas Wallace","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02870-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02870-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Surgical patient optimization is a proactive approach to improve postoperative outcomes. This article reviews the development of the Surgical Patient Optimization Collaborative, an initiative supporting preoperative optimization in British Columbia, Canada.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Collaborative facilitated optimization programs over two cohorts between 2019 and 2024. A \"Change Package\" offered screening, intervention, and measurement tools for the following 13 surgical risk factors: anemia, anxiety, body mass index (cohort 2 only), cardiac status, frailty, glycemic control, nutrition, sleep apnea, pain management, physical activity, smoking, social support, substance use, and venous thromboembolism (cohort 1 only). Monthly data submissions from participating sites included the number of patients undergoing optimization, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-defined 30-day outcomes, length of stay, and patient-reported measures. Run charts were used to analyze the progress of optimization implementation across both cohorts.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fourteen sites participated in each cohort. In total, 9,686 patients were screened for optimization, with 7,100/7,505 (95%) patients receiving at least one optimization intervention. Improvement shifts in the number of patients screened were identified in the run charts across both cohorts. Most patients felt that their optimization improved their surgical experience and outcomes. Data for clinical outcomes were inconsistently reported from sites and precluded analyses. Barriers to implementation included project complexity and structural characteristics, and facilitators were knowledge and beliefs about the intervention, reflection, and evaluation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Preoperative optimization programs were successfully implemented across multiple sites in British Columbia. High-quality clinical outcome analyses are still needed to determine the impact of preoperative optimization on postoperative outcomes. The insight gained from the Collaborative's implementation process may help inform future multicentre preoperative optimization efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1672-1684"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142677907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors' Note: December 2024 Special Issue on anesthesia in Canada-from human resource challenges to a celebration of giants.","authors":"Adrian W Gelb, Stephan K W Schwarz","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02882-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02882-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1575-1579"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142803457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Mellett, Sarah K Andersen, Sadie Deschenes, Sebastian Kilcommons, Matthew J Douma, Carmel L Montgomery, Dawn Opgenorth, Nadia Baig, Kirsten M Fiest, Oleksa G Rewa, Sean M Bagshaw, Vincent I Lau
{"title":"Factors contributing to health care worker turnover in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada: a qualitative descriptive interview study.","authors":"James Mellett, Sarah K Andersen, Sadie Deschenes, Sebastian Kilcommons, Matthew J Douma, Carmel L Montgomery, Dawn Opgenorth, Nadia Baig, Kirsten M Fiest, Oleksa G Rewa, Sean M Bagshaw, Vincent I Lau","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02825-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02825-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased job vacancies in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs). We aimed to identify, explore, and describe factors contributing to the decisions of health care workers to leave, or strongly consider leaving their ICU positions during the peri-COVID-19 pandemic era.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We undertook a qualitative descriptive study between June and August 2022. We conducted semistructured interviews with 19 registered nurses and one respiratory therapist from a single ICU in Alberta, Canada who had left, or had strongly considered leaving their ICU position since the beginning of the pandemic. We used Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis to generate themes from these interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified five themes to describe the factors that contributed to participants' decisions to leave, or strongly consider leaving, their ICU positions. These were: 1) toxic workplace, 2) inadequate staffing, 3) distress from providing nonbeneficial care, 4) caring for patients with COVID-19 and their families, and 5) paradoxical responses to COVID-19 outside of the ICU. Some of these factors existed before the pandemic and were exacerbated by it, while others were novel to COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Participants described as key factors in their decision or desire to leave their ICU positions the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on workplace culture, staffing, and patient interactions, as well as the discourse surrounding COVID-19 outside of work. Strategies that target workplace culture and ensure adequate staffing should be prioritized to promote staff retention following the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1735-1744"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paige Gehrke, Kian Rego, Elaina Orlando, Susan Jack, Madelyn Law, Deborah Cook, Rosa M Marticorena, Alexandra Binnie, Jennifer L Y Tsang
{"title":"Factors influencing community intensive care unit research participation: a qualitative descriptive study.","authors":"Paige Gehrke, Kian Rego, Elaina Orlando, Susan Jack, Madelyn Law, Deborah Cook, Rosa M Marticorena, Alexandra Binnie, Jennifer L Y Tsang","doi":"10.1007/s12630-024-02873-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-024-02873-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Community hospitals account for 90% of hospitals in Canada, but clinical research is mainly conducted in academic hospitals. Increasing community hospital research participation can improve generalizability of study results, while also accelerating study recruitment and increasing staff engagement. We aimed to identify and describe the factors that influence community intensive care unit (ICU) research participation and the development, implementation, and sustainability of a community ICU research program.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews. Between April 2022 and May 2023, we interviewed a purposeful sample of individuals interested or involved in community hospital research in Canadian community ICUs. We analyzed qualitative data using both conventional content analysis and rapid qualitative analysis. Findings were deductively mapped out using the Ecological Model of Health Behavior. Quantitative survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants included 23 health care workers, ten research staff, and five hospital administrators (n = 38) from 20 community hospitals across six provinces in Canada. The main factors associated with community ICU research participation were 1) infrastructure, 2) personnel characteristics, 3) key relationships and connections, and 4) the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this qualitative descriptive study, participants identified the physical resources, skills, and relationships required to start and sustain a clinical research program in a Canadian community ICU. Our findings suggest that all levels of the Canadian health care system need to invest in strengthening community hospital research capacity to increase research participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":56145,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien D Anesthesie","volume":" ","pages":"1755-1768"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11666645/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142803469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}