Overview
- Focuses on how to provide suitable care to cardiac patients with limited resources reinforcing the SDGs
- Contains detailed guidance for physicians practicing in Africa
- Covers how cardiac surgical care can be used as a tool to strengthen health systems
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Global Surgery as the Neglected Stepchild of Global Health
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Cardiac Surgery as an Indispensable Component of Health Systems Strengthening
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Bioethics, Education and Role of Societies in Global Cardiac Surgery
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About this book
This book provides a focused resource on how cardiac surgery capacity can be developed and how it assists in the sustainable development and strengthening of associated health systems. Background is provided on the extent of the problems that are experienced in many nations with suggestions for how suitable frameworks can be developed to improve cardiac healthcare provision. Relevant aspects of governance, financial modelling and disease surveillance are all covered. Guidance is also given on how to found and nurture cardiac surgery curriculum and residency programs.
Global Cardiac Surgery Capacity Development in Low and Middle Income Countries provides a practically applicable resource on how to treat cardiac patients with limited resources. It identifies the key challenges and presents strategies on how these can be managed, therefore making it a critical tool for those involved in this field.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Jacques Kpodonu is a cardiovascular surgeon specializing in global health system innovation with an emphasis on addressing rheumatic heart disease and currently a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor of surgery at the University of Ghana. Dr. Kpodonu’s interests lie in biomedical discoveries, modernizing the operating room via novel design and growing the global capacity of cardiac surgeons especially in emerging countries with his work in global cardiac surgery. In addition to writing medical textbooks and his research work, Dr. Kpodonu is a key opinion leader in design of advanced hybrid cardiac surgical rooms and biomedical innovation and is passionate in advocating for the use of telehealth services—especially in African nations. Dr. Kpodonu is frequently quoted in the Orange County Register, American Health Journal, and holds leadership positions with the Society Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology. Based in Boston, he sitson the diversity and inclusion committee for the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgery and has helped to raise millions of dollars to finance the construction of advanced robotic hybrid operating room both here in the USA and in Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Cardiac Surgery Capacity Development in Low and Middle Income Countries
Editors: Jacques Kpodonu
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83864-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83863-8Published: 23 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83866-9Published: 24 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83864-5Published: 22 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 550
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 160 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Public Health