Overview

More than five billion people worldwide cannot access safe surgical care, resulting in the loss of millions of lives and untold morbidity. Global Surgery and Anaesthesia: A Short Guide to Meaningful Involvement opens a window on to the subject. With an emphasis on readability and understanding, a complex subject is made accessible, and statistics and jargon demystified. Concise, practical, ethical and thoughtful guidance is provided. Key topics: Global burden of disease and inequity in surgical care Three tenets of global surgery: need, access and quality Steps towards effective, sustainable solutions Assessing readiness, motives, and developing key skills Navigating ethical issues, responsible involvement and common pitfalls Emphasis on quality, safety and locally driven change This book is leavened with a wealth of lived experience and pragmatic advice. It will allow beginners to move from curiosity to understanding and meaningful action and more experienced staff to gain from the candid insights and reflections of others. The clarity given to clinical matters also makes it readable for managers, students, allied staff and the concerned lay reader.

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9781919328300

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""Candid, practical advice ... a highly readable overview of global surgery."" - From the foreword by Nobhojit Roy ""Full of pragmatism and common sense."" - Rachel Hargest, RCS England-LSE Global Surgery Policy Unit ""Obvious this is from someone who has been on the ground."" - Theophilus TK Anyomih, NIHR Clinical and RCS-Eng Research Fellow ""A wonderful and highly insightful guide that we wish we'd had setting out for the first time."" - Helen Sinabulya, vascular surgeon, Karolinska Institutet and Hampus Holmer, global health diplomat, Addis Ababa

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Lesley Hunt has 25 years' experience as a UK consultant surgeon and trainer. Since 2013, she has been training African surgeons - mainly in Sierra Leone, but also Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania. An advocate of high-quality tuition and achieving competency, her experience over several organisations has given her an understanding of what worthwhile training looks like: long term relationships, mentorship and empowerment of local faculty. She maintains close relationships with many of those she trained, supporting them in practice and furthering their on-going careers.

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