Injury is a leading cause of death globally, and organized trauma care systems have been
shown to save lives. However, even though most injuries occur in low-and middle-income …

Abstract The International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anesthesia were developed on
behalf of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), a nonprofit …

OBJECTIVE Worldwide disparities in the provision of surgical care result in otherwise
preventable disability and death. There is a growing need to quantify the global burden of …

BACKGROUND: Safe anesthesia and surgical care are not available when needed for 5
billion of the world's 7 billion people. There are major deficiencies in the specialist surgical …

Globally, the lack of access to basic surgical care causes 3 times as much deaths as
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. The magnitude of this unmet need has been …

Background While a number of studies have examined the factors affecting accessibility to
and utilisation of healthcare services by persons with disability in general, there is little …

Background Cost-effectiveness rankings of health interventions are useful inputs for national
healthcare planning and budgeting. Previous comprehensive rankings for low-and middle …

Global surgery broadly refers to a rapidly expanding multidisciplinary field concerned with
providing better and equitable surgical care across international health systems. Global …

Purpose To develop a tool for the automatic contouring of clinical treatment volumes (CTVs)
and normal tissues for radiotherapy treatment planning in cervical cancer patients. Methods …

The 28th edition of Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource
for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful …