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The needs of anaesthesia in primitive conditions are: (1) emphasis on simple apparatus, agents, and techniques; (2) a corps of teachers-either expatriate aid or indigenous; (3) anaesthetic instruction for undergraduates (basic instruction plus extensive experience with simple techniques), postgraduates (in their home countries, and as teachers, not purely clinicians ), and nurses in vast number, trained by the anaesthetist.
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Webb, E. Anaesthesia in primitive conditions. Canad. Anaesth. Soc. J. 15, 37–41 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03005867
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