The State of Critical Care Provision in Low-Resource Environments

Bruce M Biccard¹, Tim Baker^{2

3}, Delia Mabedi⁴, Wangari Waweru-Siika⁵

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa.
² Department of Emergency Medicine. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.
³ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.

Editorial

Bruce M Biccard et al. Anesth Analg. 2022.

. 2022 May 1;134(5):926-929.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005885.

Bruce M Biccard¹, Tim Baker^{2

3}, Delia Mabedi⁴, Wangari Waweru-Siika⁵

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa.
² Department of Emergency Medicine. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.
³ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: See Disclosures at the end of the article.

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