It's the 61st UN General Assembly this week - Global Health is on the agenda: http://www.un.org/ga/61/ But surgery is sometimes low within the Global Health agenda, despite the many operations performed, the unequal access to care and the potential for wide variation in outcome. GlobalSurg will hopefully overcome some of these barriers and establish global outcome [...]
1:25 people in the world undergo surgery 234 million surgeries worldwide 30% population received 75% of operations; low income disparity Numbers of operations 7x greater than number HIV infections What’s the role of laparotomy? Participate in @GlobalSurg 2014 to find out. This TED talk is worth 13 minutes of your life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7KCdUoSSJ0
The next few months are about testing feasibility of whether social media can deliver a clinical outcomes project. A surgical topic is well placed to meet this need – patients undergoing specific operations are easily identifiable, and they have clear endpoints. We will send out information about the website via Twitter, Facebook and a multitude [...]