Global Anaesthesia

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.

Table of Contents

1: Context
2: Organising your environment
3: Anaesthesia Equipment and utilities
4: Drugs
5: Perioperative Care
6: The Difficult airway
7: Paediatrics
8: Obstetrics and gynaecology
9: Trauma
10: General and urological surgery
11: Regional Anaesthesia
12: Critical Care
13: Tropical medicine for anaesthetists

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