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September 11, 2024
BACKGROUND: Subspecialist training is an important part of developing human resources for health and for some learners, may require taking place in another, higher-resourced country. Despite effective learning of skills and knowledge in a different, more highly resourced context, transfer...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Education and Training in Anaesthesia / Global Health
January 1, 2024
BACKGROUND: Regional anesthesia techniques are increasingly used in high-income countries (HICs) for both surgical anesthesia and postoperative analgesia. However, regional anesthesia has not been utilized to the same degree in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) due to a lack of...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health / Regional Anaesthesia
January 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Mortality rates among surgical patients in Africa are double those of surgical patients in high-income countries. Internationally, there is a call to improve access to and safety of surgical and perioperative care. Perioperative research needs to be coordinated across...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health / Regional Anaesthesia
January 1, 2023
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health / Regional Anaesthesia
January 1, 2023
Well developed, high-income countries enjoy an abundance of resources which enhance patient safety in the perioperative setting. Much of this results from the longstanding progress of clinical research that endeavors to continually improve patient outcomes. A wholly different scenario exists...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health / Regional Anaesthesia
December 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Provision of timely, safe, and affordable surgical care is an essential component of any high-quality health system. Increasingly, it is recognized that poor quality of care in the perioperative period (before, during, and after surgery) may contribute to significant...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health / Regional Anaesthesia
November 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Cardiac arrest (CA) is still associated with high mortality and morbidity across all practice settings despite resuscitation attempts and advancements in its management. Patient outcomes vary and are affected by multiple factors. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of information...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health / Regional Anaesthesia
December 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Provision of timely, safe, and affordable surgical care is an essential component of any high-quality health system. Increasingly, it is recognized that poor quality of care in the perioperative period (before, during, and after surgery) may contribute to significant...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
November 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Cardiac arrest (CA) is still associated with high mortality and morbidity across all practice settings despite resuscitation attempts and advancements in its management. Patient outcomes vary and are affected by multiple factors. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of information...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
May 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: The burden of critical illness in low-income countries is high and expected to rise. This has implications for wider public health measures including maternal mortality, deaths from communicable diseases, and the global burden of disease related to injury. There...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
May 1, 2022
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
June 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Limited data exist concerning how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected surgical care in low-resource settings. We sought to describe associations between the COVID-19 pandemic and surgical care and outcomes at 2 tertiary hospitals in Ethiopia. METHODS:...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Covid-19
June 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Limited data exist concerning how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected surgical care in low-resource settings. We sought to describe associations between the COVID-19 pandemic and surgical care and outcomes at 2 tertiary hospitals in Ethiopia. METHODS:...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Covid-19
August 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: There is an unmet need for essential surgical services in Africa. Limited anesthesia services are a contributing factor. Nonphysician anesthesia providers are utilized to assist with providing anesthesia and procedural sedation to make essential surgeries available. There is a...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Covid-19
August 1, 2022
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
July 1, 2022
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
July 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is common in pediatric surgical patients, but there are little data from low-income countries that estimate the association of malnutrition with surgical outcomes. We aimed to determine the prevalence of malnutrition and its association with length of stay...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Global Health
July 1, 2022
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...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Patient safety
July 1, 2022
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Patient safety
October 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Many studies address anesthesia provider burnout in high-income countries; however, there is a paucity of data on burnout for anesthesia providers in low-income countries (LICs). Our objectives were (1) to evaluate the prevalence of burnout among anesthesia providers in...
Categories: Anesthesia & Analgesia / Patient safety