Matching the design of anesthesia life-support equipment with environmental challenges

Onyebuchi Ogbuagu; Adaora Chima; Rahul Koka; Benjamin Lee; Eric Jackson; Michael Rosen; Michael Koroma; John Sampson

Matching the design of anesthesia life-support equipment with environmental challenges

Onyebuchi Ogbuagu, Adaora Chima, Rahul Koka, Benjamin Lee, Eric Jackson, Michael Rosen, Michael Koroma, John Sampson

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Surgery is an essential component of health systems. Anesthesia is a necessity for the delivery of safe and effective surgical care. In emerging healthcare systems, anesthesia providers are often the only providers of life support, with the anesthesia machine being the tool most often used for this purpose. The use of anesthesia machines that are not designed to match existing constraints in low-resource environment places patients in these locations at risk of suffering cardiac or brain damage from anoxia and hypercapnia, awakening during surgery, or acquiring infectious diseases. These risks can be mitigated with appropriately designed equipment.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - Jan 1 2014
Event	Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Low Resource Settings, AHT 2014 - London, United Kingdom Duration: Sep 17 2014 → Sep 18 2014

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Other	Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Low Resource Settings, AHT 2014
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	9/17/14 → 9/18/14

Keywords

Africa
Anesthesia
Life-support
Safety
Sierra Leone

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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