1. Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America 2. Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America 3. Nicholas School of the Environment and Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina...

1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 2. Beit CURE International Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi 3. Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom 4. Centre for Global Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 5. Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculo...

OBJECTIVE New training paradigms in vascular surgery allow for early specialization out of medical school. Surgical simulation has emerged as an educational tool for trainees to practice procedures in a controlled environment allowing interested medical students to perform procedures without compromising patient safety. The purpose of this study is to assess the ability of a simulation-based cu...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular myocardial performance index is a Doppler-derived parameter of nongeometrical ventricular function that measures both systolic and diastolic function of the left ventricle. The objective of this study was to compare prognostic value of left ventricular myocardial performance index with global left ventricle function in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft...

BACKGROUND The role of surgical care in promoting global health is the subject of much debate. The Global Burden of Disease 2010 study (GBD 2010) offers a new opportunity to consider where surgery fits amongst global health priorities. The GBD 2010 reinforces the DALY as the preferred methodology for determining the relative contribution of disease categories to overall global burden of disease...

vertebral anomalies may also distort the normal regional or global spinal alignment and necessitate some therapeutic interventions. hemiepiphysiodesis is a traditional procedure usually described for these young patients but in more severe cases some type of osteotomy seems to be necessary. in this technical note, we describe a 5-year-old boy with failed previous hemiepiphysiodesis surgery, who...

the formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. this is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. this may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. but it’s important t...

We deene the notion of a Poincar e complex of sheaves over a topological space. Global surgery invariants of spaces and maps are expressed as the assembly of locally deened surgery invariants. For simplicial complexes we recover the theory of Poincar e cycles of Ranicki. For more general spaces we obtain local surgery invariants in the absence of triangulations.