The SSAI Clinical Practice Committee

Background
The Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive care Medicine (SSAI) has over the years been involved in quality improvement and patient safety work through the "Quality Assurance Committee. In 2003 the Quality Assurance Committee changed name to the Clinical Practice Committee (CPC). One of the main topics of the society are on continuous quality improvement, optimising clinical practice and improving patient safety.

Clinical Practice Committee (CPC)

Chairman
Dr Ann Möller
Department of Anaesthesiology
Herlev Hospital
Herlev Ringvej 76
DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
annmo@herlevhosp.kbhamt.dk

Dr Girish Hirlekar
Head of Dept of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Akureyri 600, Iceland
Tel: +354 463 0100
Fax: +354 46 24 621
girish@fsa.is

Doc Gunilla Islander
Dept of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Lund University Hospital
SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
gunilla.islander@gmail.com

MD, PhD Jon Henrik Laake
Consultant, Cardiovascular Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
&Intensive Care Medicine
Rikshospitalet (Rikshospitalet - Radiumhospitalet HF)
N-0027 OSLO, NORWAY
Tel (work): +47 23070000, mobile: +47 99269446
Tel (home): +47 22694260
j.h.laake@medisin.uio.no (preferred)
e-mail (work) jon.henrik.laake@rikshospitalet.no

TASK FORCES
Anaphylaxis- diagnosis, management and follow-up
Published

Prehospital airway management.
Published

Pre-operative fasting
Published

Acute pain management.
Facilitator:Girish Hirlekar:
Members: To be announced

Anticoagulation and regional anaesthesia.
Facilitator: Seppo Alahuhta
Member of the working party: Ulla Bang (Denmark), Harald Breivik, chair (Norway), , Jouko Jalonen (Finland), Michael Lagerkranser (Sweden), Gísli Vigfússon (Iceland). Professor Breivik was elected as the chairperson.p.

Therapeutic hypothermia.
Facilitator: Minna Niskanen:
Member of the working party: Maaret Castren, chair (Finland), , Tom Silfvast (Finland), Kjetil Sunde (Norway), Michael Wanscher (Denmark), Sten Rubertsson (Sweden)

Upcoming
Sedation outside the operation theater
Chaired by Anders Gaadegard-Jenssen

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