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Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery in Austere Environments

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Safe anesthesia is an essential part of surgical care. In austere environments the orthopedic surgeon needs to be more involved with aspects of anesthesia that are usually taken care of by others in high resource settings.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt Anesthesia Global Health and Development, Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1301 Medical Center Drive, #4648 TVC, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA

    K. A. Kelly McQueen MD, MPH

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa, Fatih, Istanbul, 34097, Turkey

    Ercan Türeci

  3. Perioperative Services, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Errol Peter Lobo MD, PhD

  4. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Moffit-Long Hospital, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M175, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    Errol Peter Lobo MD, PhD

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Correspondence to K. A. Kelly McQueen MD, MPH .

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Richard A. Gosselin

  2. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    David A. Spiegel

  3. Columbus, Montana, USA

    Michelle Foltz

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McQueen, K.A.K., Türeci, E., Lobo, E.P. (2014). Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery in Austere Environments. In: Gosselin, R., Spiegel, D., Foltz, M. (eds) Global Orthopedics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1578-7_16

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