Global Surgery: The Essentials - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319494805 ISBN 13: 9783319494807

Publisher: Springer, 2017

Synopsis

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 these issues, 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 various clinical 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 in low 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. Many surgeons 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 scope of their training or current practice but that they would reasonably be expected to encounter in the field.

About this title

About the Author

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 

 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 in low 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. Many surgeons 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 scope of their training or current practice but that they would reasonably be expected to encounter in the field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319494805
• ISBN 13: 9783319494807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 611
• Editor: Park Adrian, Price Raymond