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Safety and Feasibility of a Ketamine Package to Support Emergency and Essential Surgery in Kenya When No Anesthetist is Available: Reply

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  1. Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 125 Nashua St, Suite 910, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Thomas F. Burke, Sebastian Suarez, Ayla Senay, Charles Masaki, Moytrayee Guha & Brett D. Nelson

  2. Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Thomas F. Burke & Brett D. Nelson

  3. Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Thomas F. Burke & Charles Masaki

  4. African Institute for Health Transformation at Sagam Community Hospital, P.O. Box 905-50307, Luanda, Kenya

    Thomas F. Burke, Charles Masaki, Khama Rogo, Taha Yusufali, Debora Rogo, Moytrayee Guha & Brett D. Nelson

  5. Kenya Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society, P.O. Box 19459-00202, Nairobi, Kenya

    Khama Rogo

  6. Department of Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave. — P77, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Daniel I. Sessler

  7. College of Surgery for East, Central, and Southern Africa, 157 Olorien, Njiro Road, Arusha, Tanzania

    Taha Yusufali & Pankaj Jani

  8. Department of Surgery, University of Nairobi School of Medicine, P.O. Box 19676, Nairobi, Kenya

    Pankaj Jani

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Burke, T.F., Suarez, S., Senay, A. et al. Safety and Feasibility of a Ketamine Package to Support Emergency and Essential Surgery in Kenya When No Anesthetist is Available: Reply. World J Surg 42, 3046–3048 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-018-4521-1

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