Anaesthesia in Africa. The effect of the African cultural background on the practice of anaesthesia.
This paper describes the effect of an African cultural background on normal anaesthetic practice. Attitudes of African people to illness, hospital, pain and medicine are explained.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D000776:Anesthesiology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D044383:Black People; D003469:Culture; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D015030:Zimbabwe