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Availability of critical care resources to treat patients with severe sepsis or septic shock in Africa: a self-reported, continent-wide survey of anaesthesia providers
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1 Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, DOCS Hospital, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa
2 Klinik für Anästhesiologie der Technischen Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 86175 München, Germany
3 Medical University Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria
4 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Kenyatta National Hospital, Hospital Road, 00202 Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
5 Department of Anesthesiology, The Nairobi Hospital, Argwings Kodhek Road, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
6 Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK
7 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Section for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden
8 Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Intensive Care Medicine, Salzburg General Hospital and Paracelsus Private Medical University, Müllner Hauptstrasse 48, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Critical Care 2011, 15:R10 doi:10.1186/cc9410
Published: 10 January 2011Additional files
Additional file 1:
Electronic supplementary material. This file contains the study questionnaire; a list of African nations eligible for participation in this survey; hospital facilities, equipment, drugs and disposable materials required to implement single recommendations/suggestions of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines; and tables on differences between Sub-Saharan African countries and South Africa/Mauritius/Northern African countries.
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