RT Book, Section
A1 Iserson, Kenneth V.
SR Print(0)
ID 1124427876
T1 Anesthesia—Local and Regional
T2 Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847629
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124427876
RD 2024/04/24
AB Use  local  and  regional  anesthetic  techniques  when  the  equipment,  supplies,  and  experienced  personnel  to  give  deep  sedation  or  general  anesthesia  are  unavailable.  This  is  frequently  the  case  during  initial  disaster  responses  and  in  limited-resource  settings.  As  one  experienced  anesthesiologist  wrote,  “We  must  assume  that  supplies  of  compressed  gases  will  soon  run  out  and  replacements  will  be  unobtainable.  This  leaves  us  with  local  techniques,  spinal  and  epidural  analgesia,  all  of  which  can  be  given  by  the  surgeon  in  the  absence  of  a  trained  anesthetist.”1