BACKGROUND: Anesthesia in West Africa is associated with high mortality rates. Critical
shortages of adequately trained personnel, unreliable electrical supply, and lack of basic …

BACKGROUND: Quality anesthetic care is lacking in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs). Global health leaders call for perioperative capacity reports in limited-resource …

BACKGROUND: Many surgical interventions worldwide are performed in developing
countries. To improve survival of acutely and critically ill patients in these countries, basic …

Background Anesthesia is mainly needed in surgical services, for diagnostic services in
almost all fields of specialty in medicine. When anesthesia services are inadequate …

BACKGROUND: Only 20% of the surgical burden in eastern sub-Saharan Africa is currently
met, leaving> 17 million surgical cases annually in need of safe surgery and anesthesia …

Background The development of modern anaesthesia practice in many low-income
countries has lagged behind that of high-income countries despite early reports. Detailed …

BACKGROUND: Access to safe surgery and anesthesia care is grossly inadequate in low-
and middle-income countries, with a shortage of anesthesia providers contributing to this …

BACKGROUND: International standards for safe anesthetic care have been developed by
the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the World Health …

SURG-AFRICA AND ANESTHESIA CAPACITY IN MALAWI, TANZANIA, AND ZAMBIA In the
SURG-Africa study by Gajewski et al7 published in this edition of Anesthesia & Analgesia …

BACKGROUND: District-level hospitals (DLHs) are the main providers of surgical services
for rural populations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Skilled teams are essential for surgical …