التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Inguinal hernia repair in a developing country. |
| المؤلفون: |
Turaga, Kiran1, Garg, Nitin1, Coeling, Molly1, Smith, Kelly1, Amirlak, Bardia1, Jaszczak, Nicholas1, Elliott, Barb1, Manion, James1, Filipi, Charles1 cjfilipi@creighton.edu, Turaga, Kiran K1 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
Hernia. Aug2006, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p294-298. 5p. 2 Color Photographs, 3 Charts. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*HERNIA, *ABDOMINAL diseases, *PHYSICIANS, *HERNIA surgery, *AMBULATORY surgery, *INGUINAL hernia, *INTERNATIONAL relations, *SURGERY, DEVELOPING countries |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
DOMINICAN Republic, UNITED States |
| مستخلص: |
Hernia surgery is typically same-day surgery and can be safely conducted in a developing country. We describe a collaborative effort of the American Hernia Society, the Institute of Latin American Concerns, medical industries, the United States Peace Corps, physicians, surgical residents and nurses from many institutions. During three 5-day periods, we operated on 236 patients and repaired 252 hernias (73% inguinal). In addition, an education day for local physicians was conducted on three occasions and included televised live surgical demonstrations and interactive lectures with question and answer sessions. We suggest this to be a viable public health initiative and demonstrate the role of surgeons in advancing and providing state-of-the-art inguinal hernia surgery to a developing country and its underserved population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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