Machame Anaesthesia Notebook for Medical Auxiliaries: With Special Emphasis on the Developing Countries

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 introduction of new medicine and methods but even more so by better training for...