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The Role of Regional Anesthesia under Field Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Thomas Klöss ,
Gunther Lenz ,
Heidi Schwandt-Boden ,
Johannes Bauer  and
Raimund Stehle
Thomas Klöss*
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, D-7400 Tübingen, Federal Republic ofGermany
Gunther Lenz
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, D-7400 Tübingen, Federal Republic ofGermany
Heidi Schwandt-Boden
Affiliation:
German Red Cross, P.O. Box, D-5300 Bonn, Federal Republic ofGermany
Johannes Bauer
Affiliation:
German Red Cross, P.O. Box, D-5300 Bonn, Federal Republic ofGermany
Raimund Stehle
Affiliation:
German Red Cross, P.O. Box, D-5300 Bonn, Federal Republic ofGermany
*
Dr. Thomas Klöss, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, D-7400 Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany
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Abstract

The authors, who served as anesthesiologists for 15 months at an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) surgical field hospital in a Cambodian refugee camp, report their anesthesiologic experience with 2,906 patients. In spite of preferential use of regional anesthetic techniques, general anesthesia was required in 68% of the cases. Local infiltration anesthesia was applied in 21% of the cases, conduction anesthesia in 3%, and spinal anesthesia in 8%.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 349 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1990

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