Valerie Pierre is the project coordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières' surgical project in Aden.
Our surgical project now regularly deals with influxes of war wounded people.
We are a surgical project, but at times people have injuries to their heads or necks that are too serious for us to treat so we have to refer them elsewhere.
For a humanitarian surgical project, infection with MDR organisms leads to formidable diagnostic, treatment, and control challenges.
The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgical project in Amman, Jordan, was initially developed for war-injured Iraqis needing surgical reconstruction or management of chronic osteomyelitis.
Indeed, STARSurg is primarily focussed on surgical academic projects, yet students with a broad range of medical and surgical interests participated in the study, suggesting that core principles rather than context was a major determinant in participation.
Funding: The Realistic Effective Facilitation of Elective Referral for elective surgical assessment project was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Programme (project reference: 08/1310/72).
In those days, if you were going to get onstage half-naked, with grainy films of surgical procedures projected onto your oil and blood-smeared torso, and then bang a piece of sheet metal against an oilcan while screaming into a six-foot column of fire for several hours, you were expected to give a witty reason for doing so.
All the pilot projects, surgical insertions, and eelgrass-planting afternoons amount to bailing out the Titanic with a teacup.
"In most instances, the patient is completely helpless," said Dr. Gibbs, who is also the director of NoThing Left Behind, a national surgical patient safety project.
