Machame Anaesthesia Notebook for Medical Auxiliaries

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. A Short Review of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory System

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 1-9

3. Pharmacology of General Anaesthesia

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 10-29

4. Pre-operative Examination

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 30-37

5. Premedication

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 38-41

6. Maintenance of the Airway

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 42-54

7. Anaesthesia Techniques and Equipment

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 55-67

8. General Anaesthesia, Techniques

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 68-78

9. Anaesthesia in Obstetrics

   • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

   Pages 79-82

10. Paediatric Anaesthesia

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 83-87

11. Ketalar-Mono Anaesthesia

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 88-92

12. Anaesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 93-102

13. Anaesthesia and Associated Medical Problems

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 103-105

14. Local Anaesthesia

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 106-121

15. Management of Emergency Situations

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 122-133

16. Fluids and Electrolytes

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 134-139

17. Intensive Care Unit (I.C.U.)

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 140-146

18. Fear and Confidence

    • Georg Kamm, Toni Graf-Baumann

    Pages 147-151

19. Back Matter

    Pages 152-154

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The advances in the field of anaesthesiology and reanimation have contributed in all developed countries to the decrease in deaths occurring on the operating table (exitus in tabula), from the ratio 1: 100 (in the nineteenth century) down to approximately 1: 1000 (in the first half of the twentieth century) and finally to approxi­ mately 1: 10 000 (nowadays). Numerous human lives were saved not only through the intro­ duction of new medicine and methods but even more so by better training for the doctors and nurses who apply these new techni­ ques. I am happy about the splendid initiative of my student and friend Georg Kamm, which has now made these advances acces­ sible to the developing countries. He knows very well how to make his colleagues understand the theory and the practical side of modern anaesthesiology, under the most difficult conditions and in a completely different world, to such an extent that to­ day in his country all of his patients are given the benefit of the advances of medicine. There is nothing more rewarding for an academic teacher than to see how his students continue developing his ideas and spread them far and wide. I am therefore happy and proud to write this foreword for Georg Kamm, one of the pioneers of anaesthesiology in Africa.

• Anaesthesia
• Anästhesie
• complications
• intensive care unit
• intubation
• obstetrics
• physiology
• prevention
• respiration
• resuscitation
• shock

• Machame Hospital, Moshi, Tanzania

  Georg Kamm

• SIFKU-Institut, Kiel, Germany

  Toni Graf-Baumann

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