Reasons for in-hospital delays to emergency surgical care in a resource-limited setting: Surgery versus anesthesiology perspective.
Brittany RobinsonLaura N PurcellRachel ReissVanessa MsosaOnias MtalimajaAnthony CharlesPublished in: Tropical doctor (2022)
Patients experience delays in emergency surgical care. Our 3-month mixed-methods observational prospective study examined the duration of in-hospital delays (IHDs) to emergency surgery at a tertiary hospital in Malawi and perceived reasons for such delay, assessing the correlation between surgery and anesthesia. Delays over two hours occurred in the majority, and almost 20% waited over twelve hours. However, we found no correlation between surgeons and anaesthetists in the perceived reasons for In-hospital delays to emergency surgical care.
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