Operation ebola : surgical care during the West African outbreak

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    • Wren, Sherry M.
    • Kushner, Adam L.
    • Hoyt, David B.

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Operation ebola : surgical care during the West African outbreak

edited by Sherry M. Wren and Adam L. Kushner ; foreword by David B. Hoyt

（Operation health : a series of books exploring surgery and global health）

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2017

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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 the 2014 outbreak. Recognizing that there was no guidance available for how to perform surgery under such dangerous conditions, Wren and Kushner collaborated to create official guidelines for safe surgical procedures in cases of confirmed or suspected Ebola. Operation Ebola documents these procedures and describes in vivid detail the conditions that faced both local surgeons and the international surgeons who came to help. Bringing together a group of medical experts from Sierra Leone and across the globe to tell their stories and offer hard-learned lessons, this book is a riveting first-hand account of performing surgery in under-resourced parts of the world. Through these health workers' eyes, readers will come to understand what it feels like to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) while operating, what dangers remain when using PPE, how to construct an Ebola maternity ward, and how to give anesthesia to patients during a time of Ebola. A succinct and gripping exploration of how an outbreak can affect surgical care and the surgeons who provide it, this book will interest medical professionals, students, policy makers, donors, and anyone who cares about Ebola or global health. Contributors: Kathryn P. Barron, Hakon A. Bolkan, Severine Caluwaerts, Joseph Forrester, Andrew M. R. Hall, Eva Hancilles, Mark J. Harris, Angela Hewlett, David B. Hoyt, Daniel W. Johnson, Thaim B. Kamara, Songor S. J. Koedoyoma, Michael Koroma, Adam L. Kushner, Marta Lado, Ronald C. Marsh, Andrew J. Michaels, Mohamed G. Sheku, Sherry M. Wren

目次

Contributors Series Editor's Foreword Foreword, by David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS Preface Timeline Part I: The View From the United States Chapter 1.Filling the Void: Drafting Guidelines for Surgery and Ebola Chapter 2. The United States' Domestic Response to Ebola: Experience of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Part II: The View From Sierra Leone Chapter 3. Closing the Medecins Sans Frontieres Maternity Hospital in Sierra Leone Chapter 4. Treating Ebola and Non-Ebola Patients at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone Chapter 5. Anesthesia and Ebola: A Loss of Touch Chapter 6. How Ebola Affected a Clinical Officer Training Program in Sierra Leone and the Decline of Surgical Care Part III: Technical Considerations and a Way Forward Chapter 7. Maternity Care during the West African Ebola Outbreak Chapter 8. Surgery during a Time of Ebola Chapter 9. Operating in Personal Protective Equipment Chapter 10. A Surgeon as Outbreak Investigator: Ebola in Liberia Conclusion Index

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