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Improving Anesthesia Safety in Low-Resource Settings

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2018
The safety of anesthesia characteristic of high-income countries today is not matched in low-resource settings with poor infrastructure, shortages of anesthesia providers, essential drugs, equipment, and supplies. Health care is delivered through complex systems. Achieving sustainable widespread improvement globally will require an understanding of how
Khan, Fauzia, Merry, Alan
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Abdominal Pregnancy in a Low-Resource Setting

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2015
Abdominal pregnancies are rare types of ectopic pregnancies with high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity when encountered anywhere in the world. Combining such high-risk pregnancy with the limitations found in a low-resource setting can lead to increased complications, which can be more difficult to manage.A 21-year-old woman, gravida 2 para ...
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Informatics Education in Low-Resource Settings

2013
Developing countries have the burden of acute and chronic diseases with the greatest health disparities. There is also a shortfall of more than four million healthcare workers worldwide, and the proportion is higher in less economically viable countries where the lack of proper trained healthcare workers is also compromised by the migration and ...
Otero, Paula D., Perrin Franck, Caroline, Geissbuhler, Antoine, Cheung, Ngai-Tseung, Theera-Ampornpunt, Nawanan, Lun, Kwok Chan   +5 more
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Telemedicine in Low Resource Settings

2017
Telemedicine is a means to support health-care provision utilizing information and communication technology (ICT) tools and telecommunication services. This chapter focuses on telemedicine practices in low resource settings, referencing key telemedicine initiatives in Botswana. Telemedicine is highly practiced in the developed world, and recently there
Kagiso Ndlovu, Kabelo Leonard Mauco, Ryan Littman-Quinn   +2 more
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Midwives in low-resource settings

British Journal of Midwifery, 2020
Pakistan is a low-resource country where midwives are often not supported in their role as skilled birth attendants. Changes are needed to support midwives in providing safe and effective care.
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Preventing postpartum hemorrhage in low-resource settings

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2002
To review the literature to determine the most effective methods for preventing postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), the single most important cause of maternal death worldwide.Systematic review of published randomized controlled trials and relevant reviews.Review of the literature confirms that active management of the third stage of labor, especially the ...
McCormick, M L, Sanghvi, H C, Kinzie, B, McIntosh, N   +3 more
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Disabilities in Low Resources Settings

2022
People with disabilities globally represent an extraordinarily diverse group of people with varied unique needs and multifaceted challenges. Expanding understanding about prevention, diagnoses, and management of disabilities is an important step toward improving the quality of life and healthcare equity for families impacted by disabilities.
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Pain: A Neglected Problem in the Low-Resource Setting

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2018
Approximately 80% of the world’s population lives in countries with little or no access to pain management. These countries also have 74% of the world’s deaths from cancer and human immunodeficiency virus. Appropriate use of oral opioids can control 80%–90% of cancer pain.
C Roger, Goucke, Pongparadee, Chaudakshetrin   +1 more
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An endoscopic Ear Trainer for the low-resource setting

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2019
AbstractBackgroundEndoscopic ear surgery is a technique that is growing in popularity. It has potential advantages in the low-resource setting for teaching and training, for the relative ease of transporting and storing the surgical equipment and for telemedicine roles.
M P A, Clark, D, Nakku, B D, Westerberg
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Quality Improvement in Rural and Low-Resource Settings

The American Surgeon™
Access to surgical care is a critical determinate of health outcomes yet disparities persist across various populations, particularly in low-resource settings (LRS). Quality improvement (QI) has become an integral component of health care optimization in such areas.
Samantha Eco, Nicole L. Petcka, Kevin Li, Elizabeth M. Hechenbleikner   +3 more
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