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The ACS Patient in Resource-Limited Setting: How to Get the Maximum from the Minimum!

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Many surgeons in the world work in austere environment. This condition is very challenging. Every surgeon, working in these difficult situations, should have the basic knowledge to deal with all the problems he may encounter. The aim of this chapter is to provide the healthcare provider managing an acute care surgery (ACS) patient in resource-limited settings with tricks that could be useful in facing some of the shortcomings related to their specific conditions of practice.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

    Alain Chichom-Mefire

  2. AYAN Hospital and SMT, Mogadishu, Somalia

    Liban Wehliye

  3. Barts Health NHS Trust, Whitechapel, UK

    Susan I. Brundage

  4. Centre for Trauma Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Susan I. Brundage

  5. Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK

    Susan I. Brundage

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy

    Edoardo Picetti

  2. Division of Trauma, Department of Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Bruno M. Pereira

  3. Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Tarek Razek

  4. Department of Surgery/ Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical and Acute Care, Weill Cornell Medicine/ New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

    Mayur Narayan

  5. Department of Surgery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Jeffry L. Kashuk

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Chichom-Mefire, A., Wehliye, L., Brundage, S.I. (2019). The ACS Patient in Resource-Limited Setting: How to Get the Maximum from the Minimum!. In: Picetti, E., Pereira, B., Razek, T., Narayan, M., Kashuk, J. (eds) Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11830-3_20

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