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Table 5 Anesthesia over time

From: Epidemiology of surgery in a protracted humanitarian setting: a 20-year retrospective study of Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Kigoma, Western Tanzania

 

Total

2000–2005

2006–2010

2011–2015

2016–2020

N

10,780

1609

1812

3244

4115

Spinal anesthesia

6963 (64.6%)

788 (49.0%)

1512 (83.4%)

1751 (54.0%)

2912 (70.8%)

General anesthesia

3839 (35.6%)

676 (42.0%)

427 (23.6%)

1545 (47.6%)

1191 (28.9%)

Local anesthesia

95 (0.9%)

62 (3.9%)

3 (0.2%)

3 (0.1%)

27 (0.7%)

Other anesthesia

61 (0.6%)

44 (2.7%)

3 (0.2%)

7 (0.2%)

7 (0.2%)

Missing

229 (2.1%)

102 (6.3%)

21 (1.2%)

21 (0.6%)

85 (2.1%)