status with UN-ECOSOC. The WFSA is founding member of the G4 Alliance, and a founder and supporter of Lifebox.

In 2018, the WFSA published the WHO-WFSA International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anesthesia alongside the WHO for the first time, published jointly in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia and Anesthesia & Analgesia. These Standards are applicable to all anaesthesia providers throughout the world. They are