TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Anesthesia—Local and Regional A1 - Iserson, Kenneth V. Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e AB - Use local and regional anesthetic techniques when the equipment, supplies, and experienced personnel to give deep sedation or general anesthesia are unavailable. This is frequently the case during initial disaster responses and in limited-resource settings. As one experienced anesthesiologist wrote, “We must assume that supplies of compressed gases will soon run out and replacements will be unobtainable. This leaves us with local techniques, spinal and epidural analgesia, all of which can be given by the surgeon in the absence of a trained anesthetist.”1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124427876 ER -