Letters from Around the World
(2) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA It is Monday morning, warm even at this early hour. By midday it will be a scorcher….
Anesthetic Management During the Lebanese Civil War
Fig. 21.1 (a, b) The AUB clock Tower before and after destruction. (c) Center of Beirut destroyed Statistics Between April 1975 and November 1976, 8,324 casualties came though the Emergency…
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care: What Is the Role of Missions?
Fig. 16.1 The increase in the absolute number of percutaneous coronary interventions versus the number of open heart surgeries from 1983–1985 to present. X axis: year. Y axis: number of…
Medical Missions: A Short History from There to Here
Fig. 1.1 Maimonides eighteenth-century portrait of Maimonides, from the Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum by Blaisio Ugolino (Wikipedia accessed March 11th 2014) During the Middle Ages, Catholicism became dominant in the religious…
Anesthesiologists’ Role in Disaster Management
Fig. 23.1 Hurricane Katrina http://densitykatrina.wordpress.com Worldwide demographic analysis has proven that many heavily concentrated populations are located along major fault lines [3]. Such population trends predispose large numbers of people…
The Future of Anesthesiology and Global Health in a Connected World
Fig. 29.1 Worldwide mobile cellular subscriptions relative to population. Worldwide, the number of mobile cellular subscriptions approaches the population, demonstrating the increasingly universal access to cellular technology. Source: International Telecommunications…
Living the Mission in Serbia and Other Less Affluent Worlds
Fig. 20.1 AAF Salzburg medical seminar “Severe Bleeding Management” and point-of-care testing workshop, Salzburg, Austria, July 2012 Outreach Anesthesia Team Benefit Surgical and anesthesiology education as a part of the…
The Role of the Visiting Anesthesiologist in In-Country Education
Fig. 27.1 Queen Elizabeth Hospital. (a) Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, is the largest referral hospital in the country, with about 1,000 beds. (b) Teaching anesthesia clinical officers in…
Quality of Care: Maintaining Safety Through Minimum Standards
Fig. 10.1 In 2008, three hurricaines struck the island nation of Haiti. The Arbonite region was most severely afffected with the only hospital flooded and unusable. Medecins Sans Frontieres, a…
Anesthesia Considerations for Facial Deformity Repair in Lesser Developed Countries
(1) Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA (2) Somnia, Inc., New Rochelle, NY, USA KeywordsAnesthesiaCleft lipCleft palateCystic hygromasHemangiomasAirway obstructionPostoperative analgesia Introduction The birth of…
