Intraoperative awareness and experience with a ketamine-based anaesthesia package to support emergency and essential surgery when no anaesthetist is available

S. Villegas, S. Suareza, J. Owuorab, G. Wuykeab, B. Nelson, J. Imbambab, D. Rogob, K. Rogob, T. Burke
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July
2018
Output type
Journal article
Location
Kenya
Focus areas
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Topics
Surgery
Programme
Humanitarian Research
Organisations
Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights

Five of the 7.2 billion people on earth have limited access to emergency and essential surgical procedures. The lack of safe, affordable and timely anaesthesia services are primary barriers to universal surgical coverage. The objective of this study was to assess intraoperative awareness when the ‘Every Second Matters for Emergency and Essential Surgery – Ketamine’ (ESM-Ketamine) package was used to support emergency and essential surgeries and painful procedures in rural Kenya when no anaesthetist was available.

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