The role of ketamine in addressing the anesthesia gap in low-resource settings

In recent decades, preventable intraoperative mortality in developed countries has decreased by a factor-of-ten to fewer than 1 in 100,000 cases [1, 2]. Postoperative mortality is higher, but less than 1% nationwide in the United States [3]. In contrast, intraoperative and postoperative mortality remain high in developing countries. For example, in low Human Development Index countries, perioperative mortality is more than twice as high, and deaths attributed solely to anesthesia are almost 6 times greater [4].
Source: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research