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INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION Global health is the health of populations in the global context. Global surgery is surgery with an understanding of public health. Surgeons understand the needs of their individual patients, while public health adds the understa...

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Learning objectives To de /f_i ne: The term global surgery • To describe: The role of a global surgeon • To understand: That surgery can be cost-effective • Concepts of surgery and impoverishment • Learning objectives To de /f_i ne: The term global surgery • T...

SURGERY AND IMPOVERISHMENT Surgeons are tasked to operate and, in so doing, aim to successfully treat the surgical condition. A hernia not operated upon in a timely fashion costs the nation (and the individual) more when it becomes incarcerated. A delayed caes...

SURGERY AS AN ESSENTIAL AND COST-EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION With the decline in the burden of communicable diseases in the world, one-third of the total disease burden is now due to surgical disease, with the majority being injury and cancers. In 2015, respondin...

SURGERY AS AN ESSENTIAL AND COST-EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION With the decline in the burden of communicable diseases in the world, one-third of the total disease burden is now due to surgical disease, with the majority being injury and cancers. In 2015, respondin...

THE GLOBAL SURGICAL WORKFORCE A surgeon, anaesthetist and obstetrician (SAO) at the district hospital are considered essential sta ffi ng. In many LMICs the SAO density is less than 5 per 100 /uni00A0 000 population. As the SAO number increases, there is a drama...

ENVIRONMENT Children, especially infants, should be managed in a warm environment. Compared with adults, children lose more heat and fluid with surface area to weight ratios being higher; - Table Outline the presentation, resuscitation and operation for • pylor...

INTRODUCTION In high-income countries paediatric surgeons have subspecial ised, whereas in low-income countries surgeons must maintain diverse skills and knowledge. Some conditions, previously managed by paediatric surgeons, are now managed by others (e.g . cl...