Sprecher A, Cross RW, Marzi A, Martins KA, Wolfe D, et al.
2023-08-19 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2023-08-19 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Although there are now approved treatments and vaccines for Ebola virus disease (EVD), the case fatality of EVD remains unacceptably high even when treated with the newly approved therap...
2014-11-19 • Role of Anesthesiology in Global Health
2014-11-19 • Role of Anesthesiology in Global Health
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been running surgical programs since the early 1980s. This chapter provides an overview of the anesthesia component of these pr...
Teicher CL, Alberti KP, Porten K, Elder G, Baron E, et al.
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
INTRODUCTION During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
Aluisio AR, Teicher CL, Wiskel T, Guy A, Levine AC
2016-11-16 • PLoS Currents
2016-11-16 • PLoS Currents
BACKGROUND Lower extremity trauma during earthquakes accounts for the largest burden of geophysical disaster-related injuries. Insufficient pain management is common in disaster sett...
BACKGROUND Compared to high-income settings, survival in burn units in low-income settings is lower with invasive infections one leading cause of death. Médecins Sans Frontières is i...
Teicher CL, Foote N, Al Ani AM, Alras MS, Alqassab S, et al.
2014-10-24 • Injury
2014-10-24 • Injury
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The MSF programme in Jordan provides specialized reconstructive surgical care to war-wounded civilians in the region. The short musculoskeletal functional asses...
Murphy RA, Okoli O, Essien I, Teicher CL, Elder G, et al.
2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2016-08-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
The epidemiology of surgical site infections (SSIs) in surgical programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is inadequately described. We reviewed deep and organ-space SSIs occurring within a traum...
Trudeau MO, Baron E, Herard P, Labar AS, Lassalle X, et al.
2015-08-12 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2015-08-12 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
IMPORTANCE Little is known about the scope of practice and outcomes in pediatric surgery performed by humanitarian organizations in resource-poor settings and conflict zones. This st...
BACKGROUND Lower extremity trauma during earthquakes accounts for the largest burden of disaster-related injuries. Insufficient pain management is common in resource-limited disaster...
Nadimpalli A, Tsung JW, Sanchez R, Shah SK, Zelikova E, et al.
2019-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2019-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are the leading cause of deaths in children < 5 years old worldwide, particularly affecting low-resource settings such as Aweil, South Sudan. I...
