Post Author: Berend Mets, MD

Berend Mets is chair, ASA Global Humanitarian Outreach Committee, and author of Waking Up Safer? An Anesthesiologist’s Record. He can be reached at his self-titled site, Berand Mets, and on Twitter @Dr_B_Mets.

Berend Mets is chair, ASA Global Humanitarian Outreach Committee, and author of Waking Up Safer? An Anesthesiologist's Record. He can be reached at his self-titled site, Berand Mets, and on Twitter @Dr_B_Mets.

There is a global anesthesia crisis

Berend Mets, MD

Physician

December 29, 2019

A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.

There is a global anesthesia crisis: too few people trained to give anesthetics for surgery and obstetrics worldwide. The Lancet launched a commission to look at the needs for global surgery, which identified the issues starkly. While international disease control efforts have …

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