Paediatric anaesthesia in developing countries

Regional anaesthesia in developing countries.

In modern anaesthesia practice, regional techniques are preferred to general anaesthesia for many types of surgery, particularly in obstetric care. Improved outcomes have been recorded in UK practice, but the techniques remain underutilised in many parts of the world. With encouragement, training and a regular supply of appropriate needles and local anaesthetic agents, the advantages of regiona...

Challenges of anaesthesia research in developing countries.

Update in Paediatric Anaesthesia

Animal studies did not control for physiological variables like blood pressure, oxygenation, acidosis, hypoglycemia; factors that can induce apoptosis in these anaesthetized animals. Also drug doses and duration of exposure in animal studies cannot be transferred to humans. Apoptosis secondary to anaesthetic exposure is only seen at certain stages of brain development and is not uniform. It is ...

Anaesthesia services in developing countries: defining the problems.

We describe the use of a questionnaire to define the difficulties in providing anaesthesia in Uganda. The results show that 23% of anaesthetists have the facilities to deliver safe anaesthesia to an adult, 13% to deliver safe anaesthesia to a child and 6% to deliver safe anaesthesia for a Caesarean section. The questionnaire identified shortages of personnel, drugs, equipment and training that ...

Anaesthesia in developing countries--a risk for patients.