Global Anaesthesia

Edited by Rachael Craven, Hilary Edgcombe, and Ben Gupta

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia

Provides practical, concise advice on providing consistently safe anaesthesia with minimal resources
Written by international experts with a wealth of experience administering anaesthesia in elective and emergency settings across the globe
Intuitively laid out, with comprehensive instructions on preoperative and perioperative instructions across a swathe of specialties
The first handbook dedicated to the provision of anaesthesia in challenging environments
Covers obstetrics, paediatrics, burns, pain, trauma, and critical care

Global Anaesthesia

Edited by Rachael Craven, Hilary Edgcombe, and Ben Gupta

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia

Description

The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Global Anaesthesia is a key reference for anaesthetists working in environments with scarce resources. Whether due to rural locations, poverty, natural disasters, the outbreak of epidemics, or war and conflict, this handbook supports anaesthetists to practice to a high standard in challenging situations and to problem solve when faced with unusual circumstances.

Practical and concise, this resource outlines how to make the most of minimal resources, from finding alternatives to typical forms of anaesthesia, to the minimum standards for the safe and effective use of equipment. Intuitively laid out, with preoperative and perioperative instructions across a swathe of sub-specialties, including obstetrics, paediatrics, burns, pain, trauma, and critical care.

Written by international experts with a wealth of experience administering anaesthesia in elective and emergency settings across the globe, this essential handbook provides the definitive guide to the provision of consistently safe anaesthesia in unfavourable environments, in a portable and easy-to-read format.

Global Anaesthesia

Edited by Rachael Craven, Hilary Edgcombe, and Ben Gupta

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia

Global Anaesthesia

Edited by Rachael Craven, Hilary Edgcombe, and Ben Gupta

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia

Author Information

Edited by Rachael Craven, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Volunteer anaesthetist Medecins sans Frontieres, Hilary Edgcombe, Consultant Anaesthetist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, and Ben Gupta, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Volunteer anaesthetist Medecins sans Frontieres

Dr Rachael Craven is a consultant anaesthetist in Bristol with special interests in anaesthesia for maxillofacial and thoracic surgery and in education. She has been a volunteer anaesthetist with Medecins sans Frontieres for more than a decade. As a result of this work she has helped set up and work in emergency surgical projects in a variety of disaster and conflict settings and has developed an interest in training anaesthetists to work in low resource settings. She is a member of the joint World Federation of Anaesthetists / International Committee of the Red Cross advisory committee, was the ex-anaesthesia lead for the UK Emergency Medical Team setting up the Anaesthesia in Austere Environments Course and is a regular faculty member for the Oxford/Uganda Anaesthesia in Developing Countries course, the Royal College of Anaesthetists Developing World Anaesthesia Course, and the International Committee of the Red Cross War Surgery course.

Dr Hilary Edgcombe is a practising consultant anaesthetist in Oxford. Her interest in anaesthesia in the low-resource setting has led her to projects and hospitals in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an advocate for context-relevant training of both local anaesthesia providers and overseas visitors in all settings, in order to promote global safe, effective perioperative care. She has directed the internationally-recognised "Anaesthesia in Developing Countries" course since 2011, holds a Master's degree in Global Health, and is medical adviser to the LIFE project, a Kenya-Oxford collaboration building mobile training tools for remote locations.

Dr Ben Gupta is a consultant anaesthetist in Bristol, UK, with special interests in anaesthesia for obstetrics and trauma surgery and in specialist vascular access procedures. He has been a volunteer anaesthetist with Medecins sans Frontieres, spending a year in the field on clinical missions on 4 different occasions. As a result of this work he set up and directed the Royal College of Anaesthetists Developing World Anaesthesia course in 2011, which has gone on to train hundreds of anaesthetists to work in low resource settings. He is a regular faculty member for the Oxford/Uganda Anaesthesia in Developing Countries course.

Contributors:

Dr. Christine Bartulec (Organizing your Environment)
Senior Anaesthesiologist
International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Dr. Tom Bashford (Context, Perioperative Care)
Academic Fellow in Anaesthesia
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
UK
Dr. Phil Blum (Drugs and Transfusion)
Senior Staff Anaesthetist
Royal Darwin Hospital
Darwin
Australia
Dr. Chris Bowden (Drugs and Transfusion)
Clinical Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Frankston Hospital
Melbourne
Australia
Dr. Adrian Bosenberg (Regional Anaesthesia)
Professor of Anesthesiology and Consultant Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington
Seattle, WA
USA
Dr. Nick Boyd (Paediatrics)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Kings Sierra Leone Partnership
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Dr. Rachel Collins (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
Consultant Anaesthetist
University Hospital of Wales
Cardiff
UK
Dr. Tom Coonan (Drugs and Transfusion)
Professor
Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery
Dalhousie University
Halifax NS
Canada
Dr. Ibironke Desalu (Paediatrics)
Professor of Anaesthesia, College of Medicine, University of Lagos Consultant Anaesthetist, Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Lagos
Nigeria
Dr. Michael Dobson (Anaesthesia Equipment and Utilities)
Consultant Anaesthetist
University of Oxford
Oxford
UK
Dr. Faye Evans (Chapter lead Paediatrics)
Senior Associate in Perioperative Anaesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
USA
Dr. Paul Firth (Paediatrics)
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Head of the Division of Community and Global Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
USA
Dr. Rachel Freedman (Organizing your Environment)
Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia
Imperial School of Anaesthesia
London
UK
Julian Gore-Booth (Context)
Chief executive Officer
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthetists
London
UK
Dr. Lara Herbert (General and Urological Surgery)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Truro
UK
Dr. Sarah Hodges (Paediatrics, Trauma)
Head of Department of Anaesthesia
CoRSU Rehabilitation Hospital
Kampala
Uganda

Dr. Victoria Howell (Tropical Medicine)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
King's Lynn
UK
Dr. Amy Hughes (Organizing your Environment)
Lecturer in Emergency and Humanitarian response
Humanitarian and Conflict Response Unit
University of Manchester
Manchester
UK
Dr. Jo James (Context)
Bernard Johnson Advisor - Global Partnerships
Royal College of Anaesthetists
London
UK
Dr. Sanja Janjanin (Organizing your Environment, Trauma)
Lead Anaesthetist
International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Dr. Jey Jeyanathen (Chapter lead Regional Anaesthesia)
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Humanitarian Lead for Defence Anaesthesia
Defence Lecturer, Academic Department of Military Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;
London
UK
Dr. Rebecca Jones (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
Locum Consultant Anaesthetist
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol
UK
Dr. Judith Kendell (Trauma)
Anaesthesia referent
Medecins sans Frontieres (Operational Centre Brussels)
Brussels
Belgium
Dr. Nur Lubis (Chapter lead Trauma)
Consultant Anaesthetist, Whipps Cross Hospital
Volunteer Anaesthetist Medecins san Frontieres
London
UK
Dr. Polly Marshall-Brown (Critical Care)
Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia
Peninsular School of Anaesthesia
Southwest England
UK
Dr. Francesca Mazzola (Critical Care)
Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia
Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust
London
UK
Dr. Bruce McCormick (Chapter lead Critical Care, Organizing your Environment)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Exeter
UK
Dr. Rachel McKendry (The Difficult Airway)
Consultant Anaesthetist
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol
UK
Dr. Wayne Morriss (Organizing your Environment, Perioperative Care)
Director of Programmes - World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
Consultant Anaesthetist
Christchurch Hospital
New Zealand
Dr. Mary Nabukenya (Paediatrics)
Lecturer and Registrar in paediatric Anaesthesia
Makerere University,
Mulago Hospital
Kampala
Uganda
Dr. Susane Nabulindo (Paediatrics)
Consultant Paediatric Anaesthesiologist
University of Nairobi
Nairobi
Kenya
Robert Neighbour (Anaesthesia Equipment and Utilities)
Managing Director
Diamedica (UK) Ltd
Barnstaple
UK
Mr. David Nott (Trauma)
Consultant Surgeon, Imperial College London
Volunteer Surgeon: International Committee of the Red Cross, Medecins san Frontieres and Syria Relief
London
UK
Dr. Nelson Olim (Trauma)
Regional Advisor for Emergency Medical Teams Initiative
WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office
World Health Organisation
Geneva
Switzerland
Dr. Sarah O'Neill (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Volunteer Anaesthetist, Medecins sans Frontieres
Manchester
UK
Dr. Steve Pickering (Context)
Consultant Anaesthetist
United Mission Hospital
Tansen
Nepal
Dr. Becky Paris (Context)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Hereford County Hospital
Hereford
UK
Dr. Andrea Reis (Organizing your Environment)
Senior Anaesthesiologist
International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Dr. Oliver Ross (Context)
Consultant Anaesthetist
University Hospital Southampton
Southampton
UK
Dr. Clare Roques (Perioperative Care)
Consultant Anaesthetist and inpatient pain lead
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals
Windsor
UK
Dr. Naomi Shamambo (Context, Perioperative Care)
Senior registrar in anaesthesia and lead for primary trauma
University Teaching Hospital
Lusaka
Zambia
Dr. Kate Stephens (Chapter lead, Critical Care)
Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia
Nevill Hall Hospital
Abergavenny
UK
Dr. Ruth Tighe (General and Urological Surgery)
Specialist registrar in anaesthesia
Brighton and Sussex Universities Hospital NHS Trust
Brighton
UK
Dr Isabeau Walker (Chapter lead, Paediatrics)
Consultant Anaesthetist
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
UK
Dr. Matt Wilkes (Anaesthesia Equipment and Utilities, Perioperative Care)
Research Fellow
Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine
University College London
London
UK