Overview
- Provides case-based information for orthopedists in the developing world
- Highlights common concerns regarding orthopedics in developing nations
- Provides visiting doctors with resources and pearls regarding best practices in non-sterile conditions
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Table of contents (44 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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General Clinical Topics
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Adult Trauma
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About this book
Global Orthopedics: Caring for Musculoskeletal Conditions and Injuries in Austere Settings was conceived and written to be a unique reference for surgeons working in resource-limited environments. The first sections provide historical background, global public health perspectives of orthopedics, the role of culture, and a broad discussion of clinical topics that orthopedic surgeons rarely deal with in high-resource settings but that affect orthopedic care.
Adult and pediatric trauma are presented in an anatomical format for easy reference, with a focus on the natural history and the best treatment methods within existing limitations. The chapters on musculoskeletal infections provide a focused discussion about these common debilitating conditions that is unavailable in any other single modern text.
The non-infectious pediatric conditions section has been written for the non-specialist to handle selected developmental and early childhood orthopedic problems commonly seen in low-resource settings. Detailed chapters on reconstruction surgery, tumor management, amputations, and the orthopedic needs in the face of conflicts and natural disasters round out the text.Â
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard A. Gosselin, MD, MPH, MSc, FRCS(c), Co-Director, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
David A. Spiegel, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Honorary Consultant in Orthopedics, Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children, Benepa, Nepal, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Michelle Foltz, MD, Columbus, MT, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Orthopedics
Book Subtitle: Caring for Musculoskeletal Conditions and Injuries in Austere Settings
Editors: Richard A. Gosselin, David A. Spiegel, Michelle Foltz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1578-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1578-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 525
Number of Illustrations: 227 b/w illustrations, 159 illustrations in colour
Topics: Orthopedics, Tropical Medicine, Public Health