Anaesthesia for acute abdomen in developing countries

Yvonne O. Buowari

doi:10.4081/hls.2014.727

Anaesthesia for acute abdomen in developing countries

https://doi.org/10.4081/hls.2014.727

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014)

Submitted: 13 December 2012
Accepted: 1 September 2013

Published: 22 August 2014

acute abdomen, anaesthesia, ketamine, developing countries

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Yvonne O. Buowari
yvonnebuowari@yahoo.com
Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.

Acute abdomen is an emergency that requires immediate surgical intervention. In developing and low-income countries, there is limited modern drugs and medical equipment and personnel. General anaesthesia is administered for emergency abdominal surgeries. Ketamine is used in hospitals without trained personnel in the administration of anaesthesia. In other hospitals in developing countries with anaesthetist, ketamine is used for induction of anaesthesia and muscle relaxant administered to facilitate endotracheal intubation and maintain anaesthesia with inhalational agents to avoid awareness under anaesthesia.

Buowari, Y. O. (2014). Anaesthesia for acute abdomen in developing countries. Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/hls.2014.727