• Lena E Dohlman, Niharika Thakkar, Bridget Jivanelli, Swetha Pakala, Mark A Brouillette, and Global Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management Research Group .
• Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2022 Oct 1; 35 (5): 647653647-653.

Purpose Of ReviewPerioperative anesthesia-related mortality is significantly higher in low-resource compared to high-resource countries. Regional anesthesia techniques can provide safety, cost, and access benefits when compared to general anesthesia in these settings but is underutilized primarily due to a lack of experienced educators and training opportunities. Academic institutions and international organizations are attempting to fill this educational gap through collaborations, but these efforts need examination for best practices going forward.Recent FindingsMost collaborative anesthesia interactions between high and low resource areas have occurred between North America or Europe, and Africa or Asia and a majority have involved an educational intervention. Only 7% of the studies used a recognized framework to evaluate the intervention used in their research, such as the Kirkpatrick, REAIM or CFIR method. All recent studies reviewed reported a positive impact from educational collaborations. Only 7% of interventions have had a primary focus on regional anesthesia and most were reported between 2016 and 2022.SummaryRobust reports on international collaborations providing capacity enhancing educational interventions in regional anesthesia have increased in recent years but are still rare and should be encouraged going forward. Short courses supported by high-resource countries can be effective in low-resource areas when partnerships produce curricula that are well designed.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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