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Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy under Primitive Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Georg Kamm  and
Rudolf Frey
Georg Kamm
Affiliation:
This talk was based on a paper by Georg Kamm (Anesthetist of the Machame Lutheran Hospital in Moshi, Tanzania Africa), entitled “Some Aspects of Anesthesia in Developing Countries,” which was published inTropical Doctor 1982. This paper is re-published here with permission of G. Kamm and R. Frey.
Rudolf Frey
Affiliation:
This talk was based on a paper by Georg Kamm (Anesthetist of the Machame Lutheran Hospital in Moshi, Tanzania Africa), entitled “Some Aspects of Anesthesia in Developing Countries,” which was published inTropical Doctor 1982. This paper is re-published here with permission of G. Kamm and R. Frey.
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Extract

The setting up of anesthesia units and any future planning in this field has to be considered in the context of the social and economic development of the country. The situation requires a different attitude towards the handling of anesthesia, where malnutrition, kwashiorkor and parasites are the dominant diseases. One sixth of the world's population is permanently undernourished, and the figure might even be higher in many “developing countries.” Problems of an esthesia in most areas in Africa include: (1) insufficient supply of drugs; (2) inadequate equipment; (3) lack of anesthetic manpower; and (4) underestimation of the importance of anesthesia.

Type
Part II: Clinical Care Topics
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 282 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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