1. The first fifty years of The Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Warde, Declan, Huckle, Danielle, and Hatch, David
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PEDIATRIC anesthesia , *OPERATING room nursing , *ANESTHESIOLOGISTS , *PEDIATRICS , *PEDIATRIC intensive care , *PEDIATRIC therapy - Abstract
From small beginnings 50 years ago and in addition to serving its current membership of over 1000, the APA is now the primary source of information and guidance on pediatric anesthesia to the royal colleges and other regulatory authorities in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A group of anesthetists who specialized in the care of children created a committee devoted to pediatric anesthesia within the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1965; it soon became the AAP Section of Anesthesiology which was the first organized grouping in the world devoted to the subspecialty.[1] In summer 1972, by which time there was still no forum for meetings of pediatric anesthetists working in Britain and Ireland, Drs. In 1997, the first female APA president, Dr Susan Jones (Birmingham) was elected; she was followed in 2011 by Dr Kathy Wilkinson (Norwich). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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