ReviewJournal of the West African College of Surgeons
Critical Care in Sub-Saharan Africa, Where Are We? A Review.
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- Determining the level of resilience amongst critical care transport professionals in a fixed-wing air ambulance environment.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2026Article
- Critical care capacity in Africa: postpandemic ICU capacity, service readiness and patient profiles across public and private hospitals in Ethiopia.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the implementation of the Critical Care Asia and Africa Intensive Care Unit registry in Ethiopia.World journal of critical care medicine · 2026Article
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- Nurses' Clinical Alarm-Related Behaviors and Their Associated Factors in Malawian Critical Care Units: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Burden and Outcomes of Cardiovascular Diseases in the ICU of a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital.Cureus · 2025Article
- The Unmet Critical Care Burden at a Central Hospital in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Point Prevalence Study.World journal of surgery · 2025Article
- Being an observer of one's own life-a meta-synthesis on the experience of mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Review
- Early mobilisation in Windhoek intensive care units: Practices, attitudes and barriers.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2025Article
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Abstract
Critical care services in sub-Saharan Africa have not gained much grounds despite becoming part of modern clinical practice in the 1950s. Managing patients with potentially recoverable illnesses and injuries is still not at par with evidence-based practices in developed climes, and most die from many preventable causes. Many hospitals in Africa do not have an intensive care unit, leaving critically ill patients being treated mostly in the general wards. A survey from Zambia indicated that only 7% of hospitals in the country have an intensive care unit, whereas a cross-sectional survey in Nigeria revealed that there were 30 public and private intensive care units serving a population of over 200 million, spread around all the geo-political zones, with most in the teaching hospitals. The situation is not generally better in most parts of the continent. This review focuses on why critical care is at the level it is in sub-Saharan Africa and provides suggestions on what should be done to change the narrative.
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