Anaesthesia in Remote Hospitals : A Guide for Anaesthesia Providers / by Daniela Kietzmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kietzmann, Daniela, author.

Series:

Sustainable Development Goals Series, 2523-3092

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anesthesiology.

Local Subjects:

Anesthesiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This book provides a concise and practical guide for Non-Physician Anaesthesia Providers (NPAPs) such as nurse anaesthetists and Non-Specialist Physicians working in remote settings. In many hospitals in low and even in some middle-income countries, nurse anaesthetists are working without the presence of a specialist anaesthesiologist at their hospital. During their training on the job or at one of the few schools of anaesthesia they have to act as improvising do-it-yourself-teachers for one another. Later in their professional life, NPAPs are often organising their continuous medical education themselves, trying to provide short presentations on topics between attending to patients. This book fills the need for a quick- to-read guide for the everyday work of NPAPs and Non-specialist physician anaesthesia providers, addressing challenges such as electricity failure, lack of technical support, drugs and materials, equipment and support of specialist anaesthesiologists. Anaesthesia in Remote Hospitals: A Guide for Anaesthesia Providers covers the most important fields of anaesthesia in a typical district or referral hospital in a place where resources are limited. It provides many useful tables with doses of drugs, sizes of airway equipment, infusion rate, examples of observation charts and anaesthesia records. Nurse Anaesthetists, Clinical Officers and Resident Physicians will find this book to be an essential guide to Anaesthesia within low resource and remote settings.

Contents:

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Short Physiology of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in the Body

Anaesthesia Equipment

Other equipment

Preparing for Anaesthesia

Post-anaesthesia Care

Short Pharmacology of Drugs used for Anaesthesia

Airway Management

Inhalation Anaesthesia

Spinal Anaesthesia

Short General anaesthesia IV or IM

Obstetric Anaesthesia

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Circulatory Shock

Anaesthesia record form, preanaesthetia assessment form, ICU observation list

Workshop.

ISBN:

3-031-46610-1