Global Surgery. the Essentials

Description

• Provides a ready resource to equip surgeons to manage clinical scenarios that they might encounter in resource-limited settings
• Written by experts in the field
• Enables the reader to work cross culturally

This text was developed as a book aimed at surgeons and allied health professionals that provides an introduction to the unmet needs , epidemiological, socioeconomic and even political factors that frame Global Surgery. Following upon an understanding of theseissues, the text is a practical guide that enables the reader on several levels: to work cross culturally , build relationships and negotiate the logistical challenges of bringing surgical care to low resource settings; to develop an approach to the management of variousclinical conditions that would be unfamiliar to most “western” surgeons.  Global Surgery is a recently coined term that encompasses many potential meanings. Most would agree that it focuses on the growing recognition of the crisis of access to quality surgical care inlow resource settings. Such scenarios exist on every continent. Increasingly surgeons, allied health professionals (NGO), Public Health / Health Policy professionals as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations are engaging in this field. Manysurgeons have an interest in Global Health and a desire to become involved but feel ill equipped to do so and unsure where to start.  Global Surgery: The Essentials serves as a ready resource to equip surgeons to manage clinical scenarios that lie beyond the scopeof their training or current practice but that they would reasonably be expected to encounter in the field. 

Adrian Park, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FCS (ECSA)
Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery
Anne Arundel Health System
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2001 Medical Parkway
Annapolis, MD

Raymond R. Price MD, FACS
Director Center for Global Surgery
Clinical Professor, Surgery
Associate Adjunct Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Public Health
University of Utah
Director Graduate Surgical Education
Intermountain Medical Center
Intermountain Healthcare
Salt Lake City, UT