Surgery

  • Open Access
    Development of a Modular and Equitable Surgical Simulator
    Yihan Lin, Jason J. Han, John J. Kelly, Anna K. Gergen and Emily Downs
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2022, 10(3):e2100744; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00744

    Current trends in surgical simulation favor high-fidelity, costly models that are often limited to high-income academic centers. The GlobalSurgBox overcomes many of the barriers to routine implementation and use of surgical simulators in low-income countries by circumventing the often prohibitive financial, time, and personnel investments required of current simulation prototypes.

  • Open Access
    A Narrative Review of Kenya’s Surgical Capacity Using the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s Indicator Framework
    Hugh Shirley and Richard Wamai
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100500; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00500

    Limited progress has been made on the expansion of access to surgical care in Kenya as assessed with the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s indicator framework, underscoring the need for a national surgery, obstetrics, and anesthesia plan.

  • Open Access
    The Development and Inclusion of Questions on Surgery in the 2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
    Sabrina Juran, Sanna Moren, Vatshalan Santhirapala, Lina Roa, Emmanuel Makasa, Justine Davies, Jose Miguel Guzman, Lars Hagander, Hampus Holmer, Mark G. Shrime, Thomas G. Weiser, John G. Meara, Stefanie J. Klug and David Ljungman
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2021, 9(4):905-914; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00619

    Data from household surveys serve as the backbone to sustainable development planning. For the first time, questions on surgery have been included in a nationwide Demographic and Health Survey, showing that it is feasible to integrate these questions into a large-scale survey.

  • Open Access
    Strategies for Improving Quality and Safety in Global Health: Lessons From Nontechnical Skills for Surgery Implementation in Rwanda
    Daniel Josef Lindegger, Egide Abahuje, Kenneth Ruzindana, Elizabeth Mwachiro, Gilbert Rutayisire Karonkano, Wendy Williams, George Ntakiyiruta, Robert Riviello, Steven Yule and Simon Paterson-Brown
    Global Health: Science and Practice September 2021, 9(3):481-486; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00042

    The Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS) framework is a taxonomy of cognitive and social skills that foster expertise and medical knowledge in the operating room. This framework can be used as a method to improve the quality of surgical care in global efforts to improve access to affordable surgery.

  • Open Access
    Implementation of GeneXpert for TB Testing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
    Scott Brown, Justine E. Leavy and Jonine Jancey
    Global Health: Science and Practice September 2021, 9(3):698-710; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00121

    This review highlights a commonality of implementation barriers across geographically dispersed GeneXpert interventions for TB testing. This indicates the importance of using implementation frameworks to report findings that can improve public health outcomes across low- and middle-income countries.

  • Open Access
    Top 10 Resources in Global Surgery
    Alliance Niyikuri, Emily R. Smith, Dominique Vervoort, Mark G. Shrime, Stav Brown, Alexander W. Peters, Gavin Yamey and Emmanuel Makasa
    Global Health: Science and Practice September 2020, 8(3):606-611; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00050

    This resource list could serve to orient those interested in global surgery and could be supplemented with resources advocating for global surgery from clinical, population health, or policy perspectives.