%0 Journal Article
%T Intraoperative awareness and experience with a ketamine-based anaesthesia package to support emergency and essential surgery when no anaesthetist is available
%A Brett D. Nelson
%A Debora Rogo
%A Gabriella M. Wuyke
%A Javan Imbamba
%A Joseph Owuor
%A Khama Rogo
%A Sarah Villegas
%A Thomas F. Burke
%J Archive of "African Journal of Emergency Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.1016/j.afjem.2018.07.003
%X Five of the 7.2 billion people on earth have limited access to emergency and essential surgical procedures. The lack of safe, affordable and timely anaesthesia services are primary barriers to universal surgical coverage. The objective of this study was to assess intraoperative awareness when the ¡®Every Second Matters for Emergency and Essential Surgery ¨C Ketamine¡¯ (ESM-Ketamine) package was used to support emergency and essential surgeries and painful procedures in rural Kenya when no anaesthetist was available
%K Ketamine
%K Anesthesia
%K Low-resource settings
%K Emergency operative procedures
%K Intraoperative awareness
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440926/