Open AccessAnaesthesia in underdeveloped world: Present scenario and future challenges
Author(s) -
Sachidanand Jee Bharati,
Tumul Chowdhury,
Nishkarsh Gupta,
Bernhard Schaller,
Ronald B. Cappellani,
Doug Maguire
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.128146
Subject(s) - safer , improvisation , medicine , developing country , developed country , health care , intensive care medicine , environmental health , economic growth , economics , computer science , population , art , computer security , visual arts
The overall mortality and morbidity in underdeveloped countries are still unchanged and preventable risks factors constitute the main burden. Among these, anaesthesia-related mortality is largely preventable. Various contributory factors related to human resources, technical resources, education/teaching system and other utilities needs further attention in poor income group countries. Therefore, we have made an attempt to address all these issues in this educational article and have given special reference to those factors that might gain importance in (near) future. Proper understanding of anaesthesia-related resources, their overall impact on health care system and their improvisation methods should be thoroughly evaluated for providing safer anaesthesia care in these countries which would certainly direct better outcome and consequently influence mortality.