Challenges of scientific societies activities: Anesthesia and intensive care medicine. A scoping review

Scientific societies are historically established institutions. Historical duties and future challenges include: Improvement of patient and healthcare providers safety, enhancement of practice sustainability, boost of under-represented-minorities inclusion, promotion of innovation in technology and techniques.

This review is focused on evidence of tasks and roles of anesthesia and intensive care societies.

Google, Medline, Pubmed were utilized to find relevant studies.

The findings from the 39 included studies were categorized into the subsections: Established tasks, expanding roles, methodological hints to promote participation. The analysis of established task enhances the key role of scientific societies in education and research as foundations of high professionality skills. The expanding roles consider a large and heterogeneous list of topics: underrepresented minorities, patient and healthcare providers' safety, sustainability, technology innovation, ethical issues. The methodological hints to promote participation of effective strategies to endorse wider sharing.

Anesthesia and intensive care scientific societies have recognized functions that can be involved in the future expanding clinical and professional challenges. Both technical and non-technical skills are in the realm of the tasks of the scientific societies and the promotion of a broader participation will offer new opportunities for active collaborations.