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Operation Ebola: Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak
Sherry M (Ed) Wren
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Description for Operation Ebola: Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak
Paperback. Sheku, Sherry M. Wren Editor(s): Wren, Sherry M.; Kushner, Adam L. Series: Operation Health. Num Pages: 120 pages, 16, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JMG; MBD; MBN; MNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the decimation of the area's already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola spread, health facilities closed, and some doctors-afraid of catching the disease-left the region or stopped performing surgery. Many of those who stayed contracted Ebola and died. As the pool of doctors available-and willing-to perform surgery dwindled, treatable conditions unrelated to the disease, including appendicitis, unrepaired hernias, stomach ulcers, and obstructed labor, went untreated with devastating results. Drs. Sherry M. Wren and Adam L. Kushner both worked extensively with surgeons in Ebola-ravaged countries during ... Read more
One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the decimation of the area's already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola spread, health facilities closed, and some doctors-afraid of catching the disease-left the region or stopped performing surgery. Many of those who stayed contracted Ebola and died. As the pool of doctors available-and willing-to perform surgery dwindled, treatable conditions unrelated to the disease, including appendicitis, unrepaired hernias, stomach ulcers, and obstructed labor, went untreated with devastating results. Drs. Sherry M. Wren and Adam L. Kushner both worked extensively with surgeons in Ebola-ravaged countries during ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Operation Health
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422121
SKU
V9781421422121
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About Sherry M (Ed) Wren
Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS, FCS(ECSA), is a professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she is the director of global surgery for the Center for Innovation in Global Health. The director of clinical surgery at the Palo Alto Veterans Health Care System, she has worked in low-resources settings around the world. Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, ... Read more
Reviews for Operation Ebola: Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak
From the development of guidelines for providing surgical care for Ebola-positive patients in the US to providing obstetric care to women in Sierra Leone, the presented details in this book offer a firsthand account of providers' care during this outbreak. From these experiences, health care providers across the globe learned valuable lessons on how to treat and care for people ... Read more