Patient safety is a core principle of anesthesia care worldwide. The specialty of anesthesiology has been a leader in medicine for the past half century in pursuing patient safety research and implementing standards of care and systematic improvements in processes of care. Together, these efforts have dramatically reduced patient harm associated with anesthesia. However, improved anesthesia patient safety has not been uniformly obtained worldwide. There are unique differences in patient safety outcomes between countries and regions in the world. These differences are often related to factors such as availability, support, and use of health care resources, trained personnel, patient safety outcome data collection efforts, standards of care, and cultures of safety and teamwork in health care facilities. This article provides insights from national anesthesia society leaders from 13 countries around the world. The countries they represent are diverse geographically and in health care resources. The authors share their countries’ current and future initiatives in anesthesia patient safety. Ten major patient safety issues are common to these countries, with several of these focused on the importance of extending initiatives into the full perioperative as well as intraoperative environments. These issues may be used by anesthesia leaders around the globe to direct collaborative efforts to improve the safety of patients undergoing surgery and anesthesia in the coming decade.

患者安全是全球麻醉护理的核心原则。过去半个世纪以来，麻醉学专业在追求患者安全研究、实施护理标准以及护理过程的系统改进方面一直处于医学领域的领先地位。这些努力共同极大地减少了与麻醉相关的患者伤害。然而，麻醉患者安全性的改善尚未在全球范围内得到一致改善。世界各国和地区之间的患者安全结果存在独特的差异。这些差异通常与医疗保健资源的可用性、支持和使用、训练有素的人员、患者安全结果数据收集工作、护理标准以及医疗保健机构的安全文化和团队合作等因素有关。本文提供了来自全球 13 个国家的国家麻醉学会领导人的见解。他们所代表的国家地理位置和医疗保健资源各不相同。作者分享了各自国家当前和未来在麻醉患者安全方面采取的举措。这些国家存在十大常见的患者安全问题，其中几个问题集中于将举措扩展到整个围手术期和术中环境的重要性。全球麻醉领导者可能会利用这些问题来指导合作努力，以提高未来十年接受手术和麻醉的患者的安全性。