Strategies to increase access to physician-led anesthesia care in Canada

Beverley A Orser^{1

2}, C Ruth Wilson³, Naheed K Jivraj^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, 12th Floor, 123 Edward Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1E2, Canada. beverley.orser@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. beverley.orser@utoronto.ca.
³ Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Editorial

Beverley A Orser et al. Can J Anaesth. 2024 Dec.

. 2024 Dec;71(12):1586-1594.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-024-02874-3. Epub 2024 Dec 10.

Beverley A Orser^{1

2}, C Ruth Wilson³, Naheed K Jivraj^{4

5}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, 12th Floor, 123 Edward Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1E2, Canada. beverley.orser@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. beverley.orser@utoronto.ca.
³ Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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