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A Safe-Anesthesia Innovation for Emergency and Life-Improving Surgeries When no Anesthetist is Available: A Descriptive Review of 193 Consecutive Surgeries.
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World Journal of Surgery . Sep2015, Vol. 39 Issue 9, p2147-2152. 6p. 2 Charts, 1 Graph. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background: The worldwide human resource gap in anesthesia services often presents a barrier to accessing life-saving and life-improving surgeries. This paper assessed the impact of a ketamine anesthesia package, Every Second Matters-Ketamine (ESM-Ketamine)™, for use in emergency and life-improving surgeries by non-anesthetist clinicians in a resource-limited setting when no anesthetist was available. Methods: We analyzed prospectively collected data from 193 surgeries constituting a pilot implementation of the ESM-Ketamine package, among three sub-district hospitals in Western Kenya. The study population comprises patients who required emergency or life-improving surgery when no anesthetist was available. Non-anesthetist clinicians in three sub-district hospitals underwent a 5-day training course in ESM-Ketamine complemented by checklists and an ESM-Ketamine Kit. Data were collected prospectively every time the ESM-Ketamine pathway was invoked. The training cases, although primarily tubal ligations, were included. The primary outcome measures centered on capturing the ability to safely support emergency and life-improving surgeries, when no anesthetist was available, through invoking the ESM-Ketamine pathway. The registry was critically examined using standard descriptive and frequency analysis. Results: 193 surgical procedures were supported using the ESM-Ketamine package by five ESM-Ketamine trained providers. Brief (<30 s) patient desaturation below 92 % and hallucinations occurred in 16 out of 186 (8.6 %) and 23 out of 190 patients (12.1 %), respectively. There were no reported major adverse events such as death, prolonged desaturations (over 30 s), or injury resulting from ketamine use. Conclusion: This study provides promising initial evidence that the ESM-Ketamine package can support emergency and life-improving surgeries in resource-limited settings when no anesthetist is available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ANESTHESIA research
*SURGERY
*KETAMINE
*ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03642313
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- World Journal of Surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108813820
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-015-3118-1