Humanitarian Surgical Care Provided by a French Forward Surgical Team: Ten Years of Providing Medical Support to the Population of the Ivory Coast. Issue 10 (1st October 2015)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Humanitarian Surgical Care Provided by a French Forward Surgical Team: Ten Years of Providing Medical Support to the Population of the Ivory Coast. Issue 10 (1st October 2015)
- Main Title:
- Humanitarian Surgical Care Provided by a French Forward Surgical Team: Ten Years of Providing Medical Support to the Population of the Ivory Coast
- Authors:
- Bonnet, Stéphane
Bertani, Antoine
Savoie, Pierre-Henri
Mathieu, Laurent
Boddaert, Guillaume
Gonzalez, Federico
Poichotte, Antoine
Durand, Xavier
Rongiéras, Frédéric
Balandraud, Paul
Pons, François
Rigal, Sylvain - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Introduction: The aims of this study were as follows: first to quantify and review the types of surgical procedures performed by military surgeons assigned to a Forward Surgical Team (FST) providing medical support to the population (MSP) in the Ivory Coast (IC), and second to analyze how this MSP was achieved. Methods: Between 2002 and 2012, all of the local nationals operated on by the different FSTs deployed in the IC were included in the study. The surgical activity was analyzed and divided into surgical specialties, war wounds, nonwar emergency trauma, nontrauma emergencies, and elective surgery. Demographics, circumstances of health care management, wounded organs, and types of surgical procedures were described. Results: Over this period, surgeons operated on 2, 315 patients and performed 2, 556 procedures. Elective surgery accounted for 78.7% of the surgical activity, nontrauma emergencies accounted for 12.7%, nonwar emergency trauma accounted for 8%, and war wounds accounted for 0.6%. The main surgical activities were visceral (43.8%) and orthopedic (including soft tissues) surgeries (38.5%). Conclusion: The FSTs contributed widely to MSP in the IC. This MSP required limited resources, standardization of the procedures and specific skills beyond the original surgical specialties of military surgeons to fulfill the needs of the local population.
- Is Part Of:
- Military medicine. Volume 180:Issue 10(2015)
- Journal:
- Military medicine
- Issue:
- Volume 180:Issue 10(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 180, Issue 10 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 180
- Issue:
- 10
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0180-0010-0000
- Page Start:
- 1075
- Page End:
- 1082
- Publication Date:
- 2015-10-01
- Subjects:
- Surgery, Military -- Societies, etc
Medicine, Military -- Societies, etc
Medicine, Military -- Periodicals
Surgery, Military -- Periodicals
Medicine, Military
Surgery, Military
Military Medicine -- Periodicals
Periodicals
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616.98023 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.amsus.org/MilitaryMedicine/Milmed.htm ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/amsus/zmm ↗
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00688 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0026-4075
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