Anesthesia provider training and practice models: a survey of Africa

TJ Law, F Bulamba, JP Ochieng… - Anesthesia & …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: In Africa, most countries have fewer than 1 physician anesthesiologist (PA)
per 100,000 population. Nonphysician anesthesia providers (NPAPs) play a large role in the …

[HTML][HTML] Perioperative care pathways in low-and lower-middle-income countries: systematic review and narrative synthesis

J Patel, T Tolppa, BM Biccard, B Fazzini… - World Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Safe and effective care for surgical patients requires high-quality perioperative
care. In high-income countries (HICs), care pathways have been shown to be effective in …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the performance of a pan-African intervention to reduce postoperative mortality: a mixed-methods process evaluation of the ASOS-2 trial

N Vickery, T Stephens, L du Toit, D van Straaten… - British journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The African Surgical OutcomeS-2 (ASOS-2) trial tested an enhanced
postoperative surveillance intervention to reduce postoperative mortality in Africa. We …

[HTML][HTML] Cesarean section in Uruguay from 2008 to 2018: country analysis based on the Robson classification. An observational study

M Colomar, V Colistro, C Sosa, LA de Francisco… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2022 - Springer
Background The use of caesarean section has steadily increased, with Latin America being
the region with the highest rates. Multiple factors account for that increase and the Robson …

Priorities for peri‐operative research in Africa

BM Biccard… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Deaths following surgery are the third largest contributor to deaths globally, and in Africa are
twice the global average. There is a need for a peri‐operative research agenda to ensure co …

Caesarean section rates analysed using Robson's 10-Group Classification System: a cross-sectional study at a tertiary hospital in Ethiopia

AA Abdo, SG Hinderaker, AG Tekle, B Lindtjørn - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the caesarean section (CS) rates using
Robson's 10-Group Classification System among women who gave birth at Hawassa …

[HTML][HTML] Cesarean delivery rates, hospital readiness and quality of clinical management in Ethiopia: national results from two cross-sectional emergency obstetric and …

MG Beyene, TG Zemedu, AH Gebregiorgis… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Cesarean delivery (CD) rates have reached epidemic levels in many high and
middle income countries while increasingly, low income countries are challenged both by …

[HTML][HTML] General anaesthesia related mortality in a limited resource settings region: a retrospective study in two teaching hospitals of Butembo

FN Blaise Pascal, A Malisawa, A Barratt-Due… - BMC …, 2021 - Springer
Background General anaesthesia (GA) in developing countries is still a high-risk practice,
especially in Africa, accompanied with high morbidity and mortality. No study has yet been …

[HTML][HTML] Surgery after a previous SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: data, answers and questions

DN Wijeysundera, RG Khadaroo - Anaesthesia, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since its emergence in December 2019, the global impact of the SARS-CoV-2 corona virus
has been profound. By March 2021, more than 121 million people worldwide had been …

[HTML][HTML] Ending neglected surgical diseases (NSDs): definitions, strategies, and goals for the next decade

JA Henry, AS Volk, SK Kariuki, K Murungi… - … Journal of Health …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While there has been overall progress in addressing the lack of access to surgical care
worldwide, untreated surgical conditions in developing countries remain an underprioritized …