Encouraging a Bare Minimum While Striving for the Gold Standard: A Response to the Updated WHO-WFSA Guidelines

Dr Simon Hendel¹, Dr Paulin Banguti, Dr Rediet S Workneh+6

• ¹Journalism, Specialist Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Consultant Anesthesiologist, King Faisal Hospital and Program Director, College of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Rwanda Consultant Anesthesiologist, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Consultant Anesthesiologist, Maputo Pain Clinic, Mozambique Anesthesiologist, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Managing Director, Diamedica, United Kingdom Specialist Anaesthetist, Hobart, Tasmania Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics and Physiology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery Division of Ambulatory Surgery, Director, Vanderbilt Anesthesia Global Health & Development, Director, Vanderbilt Global Anesthesia Fellowship Affiliate Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.