Nigerian Anaesthesia Technologists And Technicians Society - NATTS.

13/10/2022

To create awareness of our professional input and to celebrate ourselves in the league of anaesthesia team. decided to celebrate this year "GLOBAL SELFIE ACTION CELEBRATION".

World Federation Anaesthesia Technologists and Technicians Societies would like all Anaesthesia Technologists and Technicians globally to take a group selfie action picture and post it to this link below

https://lnkd.in/dQsJ5hev

It's time to celebrate ourselves globally.

02/05/2022

May Your Life Speaks Peace And Love Among Others And In The Entire World...

Happy Eid el-Fitr

أتمنى أن تتحدث حياتك عن السلام والمحبة من بين الآخرين وفي العالم بأسره

عيد فطر سعيد

30/04/2022

WFATS: Proposition of a Compulsory Adequate Training Program of Anaesthesia Technologists and Technicians, Before Using Advanced and Modern Anaesthesia Equipment and Devices in the Safe Practices of Anaesthesia Service Delivery.

REVIEW
WFATS are constituting of formal training and appraisal before using modern and advanced anaesthesia equipment and devices in anaesthesia safe service delivery globally.

This article aim to explores the attitudes, evidence, comparisons, and recommendations of training on modern, advanced devices and equipment in anaesthesia services delivery in line with global best practice.

The WFATS recently encounter and considered some number of principles that led to the evolution of “WFATS Vision 2025”, which states, “that anaesthesia technology professionals who practices advanced anaesthesia devices and equipment maintenance, installation, troubleshooting, and testing, which precisely affect patient’s vital functions and enhanced safety, can be certified with level of training antecedent to such clinical utilisation.

Including Factors:
a). The drastic increased of complex modern anaesthesia equipment and devices,

b). The prevalence of human avoidable error base on equipment-related incidents,

c). The inefficiency implicit in conventional in-service training, “On the bench training”

d). The known advantages of intensive training in complex tasks, and

e). The indications reflecting the deficiency of not completing a compulsory training.

The most effective attitude and approach to successfully attain such training is simple and thereby requires a cautious inquiry.

The goals for WFATS visions were to:
1. To define the problems and the deficiencies in conventional training,

2. To establish the limitations and impediments inherent in mandating training,

3. The description new approaches to training that will be more successful and certified.

4. Consider parallel endpoints and successes from other healthcare professionals model,

5. Exploring the medical jurisprudence and regulatory pressures guide such efforts, and

6. To initiate discussion that will promote and targeted efforts at implementation.

WFATS suggested that, it will be of a great ideal to be a collective opinion, on a round table with great minds, which will involve anaesthesia technologists, anaesthesiologists, administrators, regulatory body, manufacturers and safety industries to participate. Approximately 25 persons in attendance. In other to addressed the above stated achievable goals.

This will continue in our next post on anaesthesia technology practices.

22/04/2022

WFATS: Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization of Anaesthetic Equipment.

The activity of germicides against microorganisms depends on a number of factors, some of which are intrinsic qualities of an organism and others, which are the chemical and external physical environment. Awareness of these factors, should lead to better use of disinfection and sterilization processes of anaesthetic equipment, devices and instruments.

Amount of Number and Areas of Microorganisms

All other conditions remaining constant, the larger the number of microbes, the more time a germicide needs to destroy all of them.

However, a researcher, Spaulding illustrated this linkage, when he employed identical test conditions and demonstrated that precisely took 30 minutes to kill 10 B. atrophaeus formerly known as (Bacillus subtilis) spores but 3 hours to kill 100,000 Bacillus atrophaeus spores.

This emphasizes the need for meticulous cleaning of all medical equipment, devices and instruments with soap and rinsed it under a running tap before disinfection and sterilization.

Reducing the number of microorganisms that must be inactivated through scrupulous cleaning, increases the margin or space of safety when the germicide is used according to the labeling and shortens the exposure time required to kill the entire microbial load.

Researchers also have shown that a mass or cluster cells are more difficult to inactivate than monodispersed cells.

Note this, that the areas of microorganisms also must be considered when factors affecting the potency of germicides are assessed.

Anaesthetic equipment or instruments with multiple pieces must be disassembled and equipment such as sets of laryngoscopy, endoscopes, etc. that have crevices, joints, and channels are more difficult to disinfect than that of the flat- surface equipment or instruments. Because pe*******on of the disinfectant of all parts of the equipment is more difficult.

Only medical instruments that has a flat surfaces, that has directly contact with the germicide will be disinfected. By this, it is advisable to leave no space, so that there must be no air pockets and the equipment must be completely immersed for the entire exposure period.

However, medical equipment manufacturers should be encouraged to produce equipment that will be engineered for ease cleaning and disinfection.

08/03/2022

We Celebrate All The Women Globally Today And Always. From

25/06/2021

31/05/2021

COVID-19 CHALLENGES: Cleaning Of Anaesthetic Instruments.

Cleaning is the removal of foreign material (e.g., soil, and organic material) from objects and is normally accomplished using water with detergents or enzymatic products.

Thorough cleaning is required before high-level disinfection and sterilization because inorganic and organic materials that remain on the surfaces of instruments interfere with the effectiveness of these processes.

Also, if soiled materials dry or bake onto the instruments, the removal process becomes more difficult and the disinfection or sterilization process less effective or ineffective.

Therefore we recommend that all Anaesthetic instruments should be presoaked and rinsed under a running tap to prevent dried, sticky of blood and to soften or remove blood from the instruments.

09/05/2021

Today we celebrate and appreciate all our Females Anaesthesia Technologist and Technicians Professional Colleagues all over the world. For the love, care, dedication and selfless services you have rendered in healthcare delivery.
Happy Mother's Day.

02/05/2021

Establishment of a patent airway with or without protection from aspiration in order to maintain adequate oxygenation

Definitive Airway = tracheal intubation with inflated cuff connected for ventilation with oxygen source secured in place

Protected Airway = tracehal intubation with inflated cuff preventing aspiration of gastric contents (endotracheal tube (ETT) or surgical airway)

19/04/2021

Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians globally, in every hospitals and in all clinics, are contributing to safe, efficient and cost-effective anesthesia care by giving their professional support and assisting the anesthesiologists in all segments of healthcare practices, administering anaesthesia to patients and also obtaining the supplies and equipment required for aafe anesthesia administration globally.

14/04/2021

Ramadan Kareem.!

To all our muslim faithful members, in this holy month of Ramadan, may the Almighty reward your good deeds and give you strength and peace that transcends human understanding. - WFATS