https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/07c2b8ba41ce47852c8ed46d435f7afb.pdf 2bd9827ec32181fe2e4246e2dee8fa57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Benefits and Barriers to Increasing Regional Anesthesia in Resource-Limited Settings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dohlman LE, Kwikiriza A, Ehie O Description An account of the resource Lena Ebba Dohlman,1 Andrew Kwikiriza,2 Odinakachukwu Ehie3 1Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 2Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; 3Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Services, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USACorrespondence: Odinakachukwu EhieDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Services, University of California San Francisco, 1975 4th Street, Suite C2823, San Francisco, CA 94158-3217, USATel +1 415-476-4392Fax +1 415 476 4926Email odi.ehie@ucsf.eduAbstract: Safe and accessible surgical and anesthetic care is critically limited for over half of the world’s population, particularly in Sub-Saharan African and Southeast Asian countries. Increasing the use of regional anesthesia in these areas has potential benefits regarding access, safety, and cost-effectiveness. Perioperative anesthesia-related mortality is significantly higher in resource-limited countries and every effort should be made to encourage the use of anesthetic techniques in these countries that are safest under the present conditions. Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa, although limited in number, have shown a lower risk of death with regional compared to general anesthesia. Regional anesthesia has the further benefit of decreasing the risk of COVID-19 spread to healthcare providers by avoiding the aerosol-generating procedures that occur during general anesthesia. Neuraxial regional anesthesia is relatively easy to teach and perform and is considered the anesthetic of choice for surgeries below the umbilicus in resource-limited settings due to its safety, efficacy, and low cost. Although regional anesthesia has multiple potential advantages, education and training of anesthetic providers in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) are a significant barrier to growth. Anesthesia professionals, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, are often poorly supported and undervalued, and recruitment and retention of adequate numbers of trained practitioners are a continuing problem. Greater use of regional anesthesia could be one way to safely increase anesthesia access and simultaneously create value and enthusiasm for the field. Deficits in anesthesia infrastructure, equipment, and drugs also limit anesthesia capacity in low-and middle-income countries. Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia may be helpful in improving access to safe and reliable anesthesia in low-resource countries as it continues to become more user-friendly, durable, and affordable.Keywords: low-resource countries, developing countries, regional anesthesia, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, anesthesia safety Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Developing Countries, low-resource countries, Regional anesthesia, Anesthesia safety, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Biotemas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Anesthesiology