Operation crisis : surgical care in the developing world during conflict and disaster / edited by Adam L. Kushner.

Date:
2017
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Physical description

xvii, 112 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Surgical care after the April 2015 Nepal earthquake / Kapendra Shekhar Amatya -- A health system destroyed : surgical care in Syria / Samer Attar and Shailvi Gupta -- A surgeon's day in South Sudan / Michael Sinclair -- An obstetrician in the field : some lessons learned / Maria "Tane" Pilar Luna -- Triage and training : a mass casualty incident in Sierra Leone / Lucas Carlson, Thaim B. Kamara, and T. Peter Kingham -- Wounds and fractures : orthopedics after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami / Dattesh Dave and Richard Gosselin -- Burn care : experience from the Nepalese civil war / Barclay T. Stewart and Brijesh Mishra -- Anesthesia : an assessment mission in the Congo / Marten van Wijhe -- Obstetrics and gynecology during a civil war / Judy M. Lee -- Sexual violence : genital fistula and conflict / Lauri J. Romanzi and Edna Adan Ismail -- Advocating for a cause : documenting land mine injuries in Cambodia / James C. Cobey -- After the Haiti earthquake / Evan G. Wong and Dan L. Deckelbaum -- US military joint trauma system and roles of care / Kyle N. Remick and Jeffrey A. Bailey.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781421422084
  • 1421422085