Global Surgery and Anaesthesia

More than five billion people worldwide cannot access safe surgical care, resulting in the loss of millions of lives and untold morbidity.

Global Surgery and Anaesthesia: A Short Guide to Meaningful Involvement opens a window on to the subject. With an emphasis on readability and understanding, a complex subject is made accessible, and statistics and jargon demystified. Concise, practical, ethical and thoughtful guidance is provided.

Key topics:

• Global burden of disease and inequity in surgical care
• Three tenets of global surgery: need, access and quality
• Steps towards effective, sustainable solutions
• Assessing readiness, motives, and developing key skills
• Navigating ethical issues, responsible involvement and common pitfalls
• Emphasis on quality, safety and locally driven change

This book is leavened with a wealth of lived experience and pragmatic advice. It will allow beginners to move from curiosity to understanding and meaningful action and more experienced staff to gain from the candid insights and reflections of others. The clarity given to clinical matters also makes it readable for managers, students, allied staff and the concerned lay reader.