| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-416) and index. |
| Note |
Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Contents |
Part I: Evolution and Development of Missions -- Medical Missions: A Short History from There to Here -- The Evolution of Surgical Humanitarian Missions -- The Global Burden of Surgical Need -- Anesthesia Disparities Between High-Income Countries and Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Providers, Training, Equipment, and Techniques -- Planning a Mission, Fundraising, and Building a Team -- Developing Anesthetic Equipment for Low-Resource Environments -- Materials Management and Pollution Prevention -- What do Patients and Communities Expect of a Medical Mission? -- Anesthesia in Resource-Poor Settings : The Médecins sans Frontières Experience -- Quality of Care: Maintaining Safety Through Minimum Standards -- Legal and Ethical Issues in Global Health : A Trip through the Vagaries of Truth and Culture -- Part II: Specific Case-Related Implementation -- Strategies for Patient Assessment and Scheduling -- Postoperative Follow-up and Quality Maintenance -- Women's Rights to Pain Relief after Surgery and Labor Analgesia -- Saving Sight In Developing Countries -- Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care : What is the Role of Missions? -- Anesthesia Considerations for Facial Deformity Repair in Lesser Developed Countries -- A Regional Anesthesiology Service in a Resource-Limited International Setting : Rwanda -- Management of Pain in Less Developed Countries -- Living the Mission in Serbia and Other Less Affluent Worlds -- Anesthetic Management During the Lebanese Civil War -- Trauma, War, And Managing Vascular And Orthopedic Injuries -- Anesthesiologists' Role in Disaster Management -- Part III: Education at Home and Abroad -- Surgical Mission Trips as a Component of Medical Education and the Residency Training -- Building a Global Health Education Program in an Urban School of Medicine -- Closing the Gap in Europe Through Education : A Reverse Mission -- The Role of the Visiting Anesthesiologist in In-Country Education -- Letters from Around the World -- The Future of Anesthesiology and Global Health in a Connected World. |
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Anesthesiology.
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World health.
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Missions, Medical.
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Internal medicine.
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MEDICAL / Surgery / General.
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Anesthesiology. (OCoLC)fst00808683
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Internal medicine. (OCoLC)fst00976610
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Missions, Medical. (OCoLC)fst01023909
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World health. (OCoLC)fst01181338
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Anesthesia.
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Anesthetics.
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Medicine.
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Tropical medicine.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Roth, Ram (Anesthesiologist), editor.
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Frost, Elizabeth A. M., editor.
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Gevirtz, Clifford, editor.
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Atcheson, Carrie L. H., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Role of anesthesiology in global health 9783319094229 (OCoLC)882189295 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-09423-6 doi |
| ISBN |
9783319094236 (electronic bk.) |
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3319094238 (electronic bk.) |
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