CASE STUDY: Anaethesia in Challenging Environments

In many less resourced areas of the world the basic elements such as electricity and water are not always or never available. If you relate that to a hospital environment and add the lack of medical gases, trained personnel and equipment, limited technical support, extremes of temperature and humidity it is easy to see why mortality and morbidity is alarmingly high in these areas. Unfortunately it is often these very areas that have the greatest need for emergency surgical intervention due to maternal complications, trauma, disease and other factors.

Sophisticated medical equipment donated or purchased for these areas is simply not designed to cope with the environment and often quickly fails if it ever works at all.

Safe anaesthesia is fundamental to successful surgical intervention and often unavailable due to the lack of appropriately designed equipment.

Diamedica specialises in the development and supply of specially designed anaesthetic equipment for these most challenging environments.