Operation Ebola : surgical care during the West African outbreak / edited by Sherry M. Wren and Adam L. Kushner ; foreword by David B. Hoyt.
- Date:
- 2017
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Physical description
xxiii, 91 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Filling the void : drafting surgery and Ebola guidelines / Sherry M. Wren and Adam L. Kushner -- The United States domestic response to Ebola : experience of the Nebraska biocontainment unit / Angela Hewlett and Daniel Johnson -- Closing the Medecins Sans Frontieres Maternity Hospital in Sierra Leone / Severine Caluwaerts -- Treating Ebola and non-Ebola patients at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Thaim B. Kamara -- Anesthesia and Ebola : a loss of touch / Eva Hanciles, Mark J. Harris and Michael Koroma -- A clinical officer training program in Sierra Leone and the decline of surgical care due to Ebola / Hakon A. Balkon -- A way to deliver maternity care during the West Africa Ebola outbreak / Andrew M.R. Hall, Elizabeth Koroma, Andrew J. Michaels, Kathryn P. Barron, Oliver Johnson, Marta Lado -- Surgery in during a time of Ebola / Andrew J. Michaels, Ronald C. Marsh, Mohamed G. Sheku, Songor S.J. Koedoyoma, Andrew M.R. Hall, and Kathryn P. Barron -- Operating in PPE / Andrew J. Michaels, Ronald C. Marsh, Mohamed G. Sheku, Songor S.J. Koedoyoma, Andrew M.R. Hall, and Kathryn P. Barron -- A surgeon as outbreak investigator : Ebola in Liberia / Joseph Forrester.
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Subjects
- Ebola virus diseaseAfrica, West
- Surgery, OperativeStandards
- Communicable diseasesTransmissionPrevention
- Medical ethics
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebolaepidemiology
- Surgical Procedures, Operativestandards
- Disease Transmission, Infectiousprevention & control
- Patient Careethics
- Africa, Westernepidemiology
- United Statesepidemiology
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFUM.V.14Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781421422121
- 1421422123