Articles
- Guidance on COVID-19 and anaesthesia - WFSA - 2020
- The global burden of postoperative death - The Lancet - 2019
- ASOS-Investigators,Perioperative patient outcomes in the African Surgical Outcomes Study: a 7-day prospective observational cohort study. - Lancet - 2018
- Cross-cutting health: Global surgery, obstetrics, anesthesia, and the World Health Organization - Bulletin of ACS - 2018
- Opportunities in Global Health for Residents - NEJM 360 - 2017
- Host community perspectives on trainees participating in short-term experiences in global health. - Medical Education - 2016
- False dichotomies in global health: the need for integrative thinking - The Lancet - 2016
- Will there be enough jobs for trained global health professionals? - The Lancet Global Health - 2016
- Global Patterns of QALY and DALY Use in Surgical Cost-Utility Analyses: A Systematic Review. - PLoS ONE 2016
- Use of and barriers to access to opioid analgesics: a worldwide, regional, and national study - The Lancet 2016
- Estimated need for surgery worldwide based on prevalence of diseases: a modeling strategy for the WHO Global Health Estimate - The Lancet 2015
- Perioperative and anaesthetic-related mortality in developed and developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis - The Lancet 2012
- Prevalence of chronic pain in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis - The Lancet 2015
- The Global Burden Of Chronic Pain - ASA Monitor 2014
- The Global Trauma Burden and Anesthesia Needs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - ASA Monitor 2014
- Global Anesthesia-Related Mortality - ASA Monitor 2013
- Estimating operative disease prevalence in a low-income country: Results of a nationwide population survey in Rwanda - Surgery 2013
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 - The Lancet 2012
- Deaths associated with anaesthesia in Togo, West Africa - Trop Doct 2005
- Surgical care needs of low-resource populations: an estimate of the prevalence of surgically treatable conditions and avoidable deaths in 48 countries - The Lancet 2015
- Monitoring and evaluating surgical care: defining perioperative mortality rate and standardising data collection - The Lancet 2015
- Use and definitions of perioperative mortality rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review - The Lancet 2015
- Key concepts for estimating the burden of surgical conditions and the unmet need for surgical care - World J Surg 2010
- Avoidable perioperative mortality at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia: a retrospective cohort study. - Can J Anaesthesia 2015
- Ether in the developing world: rethinking an abandoned agent
- Prehospital Airway Management in Emergency and Trauma Patients: A Cross-sectional Study of Ambulance Service Providers and Staff in a Low- and Middle-income Country
- Anesthetic management of placenta accreta in a low-resource setting: a case series.
- Ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane versus sham blocks after caesarean section in an Ugandan village hospital: a prospective, randomised, double-blinded, single-centre study.
- Post-operative pain control for burn reconstructive surgery in a resource-restricted country with subcutaneous infusion of local anesthetics through a soaker catheter to the surgical site: Preliminary results.
- Anesthesia for Children With Craniofacial Abnormalities in the Developing Countries: Challenges and Future Directions.
- The 'Malawi device': a durable, reusable, low cost device from own materials for emergency ventilation during percutaneous tracheostomy.
- Neonatal anesthesia with limited resources.
- Major neonatal surgery under local anesthesia: a cohort study from Bangladesh.
- Regional anesthesia in a developing country: an uncommon use of paravertebral block.
- Adult cleft lip repair under local anesthesia: an effective technique in resource-poor settings.
- Single dose spinal anesthesia for the management of labor pain in the developing world: defining the benefits.
- Continuous flow using an entrainer and t-piece vs drawover apparatus for inhalational induction of anesthesia in children.
- A Safe-Anesthesia Innovation for Emergency and Life-Improving Surgeries When no Anesthetist is Available: A Descriptive Review of 193 Consecutive Surgeries.
- The use of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in a rural developing area in India for plastic and orthopedic operations.
- Safe, low-technology anesthesia system for medical missions to remote locations.
- Anesthesia-Related and Perioperative Cardiac Arrest in Low- and High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review With Meta-Regression and Proportional Meta-Analysis.
- Perinatal outcome of preterm cesarean section in a resource-limited centre: a comparison between general anaesthesia and subarachnoid block.
- A questionnaire survey on patients' attitudes towards epidural analgesia in labour.
- Improving emergency caesarean delivery response times at a rural community hospital.
- Anesthesia-related complications of caesarean delivery in Thailand: 16,697 cases from the Thai Anaesthesia Incidents Study.
- Pediatric anesthesia in developing countries: experience in the two main university hospitals of Benin in West Africa.
- Anesthesia for thoracic surgery in children in developing countries.
- Anesthesia for children in Sub-Saharan Africa--a description of settings, common presenting conditions, techniques and outcomes.
- Performance of a pediatric ambulatory anesthesia program--a developing country experience.
- Has anesthesia care become safer and is anesthesia-related mortality decreasing?
- Global Health Implications of Preanesthesia Medical Examination for Ophthalmic Surgery
- WHO guidelines for safe surgery
- Financial contribution to global surgery: an analysis of 160 international charitable organisations
- Funding flows to global surgery: an analysis of contributions from the USA
- Cost-effectiveness of surgery and its policy implications for global health: a systematic review and analysis
- Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modeling study
- Timing and cost of scaling up surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries from 2012 to 2030: a modelling study
- Catastrophic expenditure to pay for surgery worldwide: a modelling study
- Role of collaborative academic partnerships in surgical training, education, and provision.World J Surgery - 2010
- Impact of parallel anesthesia and surgical provider training in sub-Saharan Africa: a model for a resource-poor setting.World J Surgery - 2010
- Academic needs in developing countries: a survey of the West African College of Surgeons
- Anaesthesia services and the education of anaesthetists in Nepal: a model for sustainable development?
- Non-technical skills of anaesthesia providers in Rwanda: an ethnography.
- An assessment of surgical and anesthesia staff at 10 government hospitals in Sierra Leone.
- The scale up the surgical workforce
- Global anesthesia workforce crisis: a preliminary survey revealing shortages contributing to undesirable outcomes and unsafe practices.
- Anesthesia training in Rwanda.
- Towards closing the gap of the global surgeon, anaesthesiologist, and obstetrician workforce: thresholds and projections towards 2030
- Con: anesthesia for children in the developing world should be delivered by medical anesthetists.
- Pro: anesthesia for children in the developing world should be delivered by medical anesthetists.
- Teaching neuraxial anesthesia techniques for obstetric care in a Ghanaian referral hospital: achievements and obstacles.
- Global distribution of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and obstetricians
- Training medical assistants for surgery
- Teaching Anesthesiology in Rwanda: A Multi-pronged Approach
- Impact of parallel anesthesia and surgical provider training in sub-Saharan Africa: a model for a resource-poor setting.
- We Need More Reports of Global Health Anesthesia Articles
- Surgical Manpower Worldwide
- Template for surgical training in resource-poor countries.
- Health professionals for the 21st century: a student's view.
- Liberian surgical and anesthesia infrastructure: a survey of county hospitals.
- Anaesthesia services in developing countries: defining the problems.
- Defining the anesthesia gap for reproductive health procedures in resource-limited settings.
- The rate-limiting step: the provision of safe anesthesia in low-income countries.
- Provision of anaesthesia services for emergency obstetric care through task shifting in South Asia.
- Establishing an obstetric neuraxial service in low-resource areas.
- Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: two-year update from Moldova.
- Rwandan surgical and anesthesia infrastructure: a survey of district hospitals.
- Pediatric anesthesia in developing countries.
- Providing quality in anesthesia care in low- and middle-income countries.
- Proceedings of the 4th annual meeting of the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP): building sustainable surgical systems.
- Review article: safety aspects of anesthesia in under-resourced locations.
- Surgery and anesthesia capacity-building in resource-poor settings: description of an ongoing academic partnership in Uganda.
- Survey of surgery and anesthesia infrastructure in Ethiopia.
- Challenges of surgery in developing countries: a survey of surgical and anesthesia capacity in Uganda's public hospitals.
- Pediatric cardiac anesthesia in the developing world.
- Addressing the Millennium Development Goals from a surgical perspective: essential surgery and anesthesia in 8 low- and middle-income countries.
- Evaluating Progress in the Global Surgical Crisis: Contrasting Access to Emergency and Essential Surgery and Safe Anesthesia Around the World.
- World Health Assembly Resolution WHA68.15: "Strengthening Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anesthesia as a Component of Universal Health Coverage"—Addressing the Public Health Gaps Arising from Lack of Safe, Affordable and Accessible Surgical and Anesthetic Services.
- Measuring global surgical disparities: a survey of surgical and anesthesia infrastructure in Bangladesh.
- Global access to surgical care: a modelling study
- Pediatric healthcare--the role for anesthesia and critical care services in the developing world.
- Anesthesia and its allied disciplines in the developing world: a nationwide survey of the Republic of Zambia.
- Prioritizing essential surgery and safe anesthesia for the Post-2015 Development Agenda: operative capacities of 78 district hospitals in 7 low- and middle-income countries.
- The global blood supply: a literature review
- Avoidable maternal and neonatal deaths associated with improved access to caesarean delivery in countries with low caesarean delivery rates: an ecological modelling analysis
- Global surgical and anaesthetic task shifting: a systematic literature review and survey
- Systematic review of barriers to surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries.
- Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data.
- Developing priorities for addressing surgical conditions globally: furthering the link between surgery and public health policy.
- Increasing access to surgical services in sub-saharan Africa: priorities for national and international agencies recommended by the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group
- A cost effective small hospital in Bangladesh: what it can mean for emergency obstetric care
- Challenges of Meeting Surgical Needs in the Developing World
- WHO Guidelines for Healthcare Equipment Donations
- Role of Students in Global Health Delivery
- Faculty experiences regarding a global partnership for anesthesia postgraduate training: a qualitative study.
- Mapping the playing field-a novel web-based strategy to identify non-governmental actors in global surgery.
- Evaluation of a large-scale donation of Lifebox pulse oximeters to non-physician anaesthetists in Uganda.
- Evaluating international global health collaborations: perspectives from surgery and anesthesia trainees in Uganda.
- Anesthesia and the role of short-term service delivery in developing countries.
- Con: pediatric anesthesia training in developing countries is best achieved by out of country scholarships.
- Pro: pediatric anesthesia training in developing countries is best achieved by selective out of country scholarships.
- Combining Dedicated Online Training and Apprenticeships in the Field to Assist in Professionalization of Humanitarian Aid Workers: a 2-year Pilot Project for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Residents Working in Resource Constrained and Low-income Countries.
- International Surgical Electives: Reflections in Ethics
- Global Health Training and International Clinical Rotations During Residency: Current Status, Needs, and Opportunities
- Ethical Considerations for Short-term Experiences by Trainees in Global Health - JAMA 2008
- Engaging academic surgery in global health: challenges and opportunities in the development of an academic track in global surgery.
- Health impact assessment and short-term medical missions: A methods study to evaluate quality of care
- Surgical elective in a developing country: ethics and utility.
- Ethics of Surgical Training in Developing Countries
- The contribution of international health volunteers to the health workforce in sub-Saharan Africa
- Using CanMEDS to guide international health electives: an enriching experience in Uganda defined for a Canadian surgery resident
- The medical mission and modern cultural competency training.
- Ethics and Best Practice Guidelines for Training Experiences in Global Health
- Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine
- Humanitarian Surgery: A Call to Action for Anesthesiologists
- Amsterdam Declaration of Essential Surgical Care
- Letter to global health agency leaders on the importance of surgical indicators
- A Crucial Role for Surgery in Reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals
- Surgery and Global Health: A View from Beyond the OR
- Guidelines for surgeons on establishing projects in low-income countries.
- “Blitz Surgery”: Redefining Surgical Needs, Training, and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Scrambling for Africa? Universities and global health
- Haiti disaster tourism--a medical shame.
- Nine Problems That Hinder Partnerships in Africa
- Role of collaborative academic partnerships in surgical training, education, and provision.World J Surgery - 2010
- Impact of parallel anesthesia and surgical provider training in sub-Saharan Africa: a model for a resource-poor setting.World J Surgery - 2010
- Global public health impact of recovered supplies from operating rooms: a critical analysis with national implications. - World J Surg 2015
- Equipment donation to developing countries. - Anaesthesia 2007
- Anaesthesia equipment for resource-poor environments. - Anaesthesia 2007
- WHO Guidelines for Healthcare Equipment Donations
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- Ethical challenges in Short-term Global Health Training - Johns Hopkins
- Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings - MIT OpenCourseWare
- Certificates in Global Health - Unite for Sight
- The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health - Part 1: The Big Picture - EdX
- The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health - Part 2: Preparation and On The Ground - EdX
- An Introduction to Global Health - EdX
- Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research - EdX
- The Challenges of Global Health - Coursera
- Health Informatics on FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) - Coursera
- Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health - Coursera
- International Organizations Management - Coursera
- Free Edu Tools for COVID-19 and Critical - OpenCriticalCare.org
- Oxygen Supply and Demand Calculator - OpenCriticalCare.org
- Respiratory Care Pocket Reference Card - OpenCriticalCare
- SAFE Pocketbook - AAGBI
- e-SAFE Course - WFSA
- Essential Pain Management Course - WFSA
- Stanford Emergency Medicine Manual
- Free UptoDate subscription for eligible providers through GHDonline
- Free CME material via Medscape
- Anesthesiologist: For quick calculation of drug dosages and estimation of appropriate sized equipment based on age and weight, this app is excellent and can be used offline.
- Anesthesia Rounds: This app allows you to connect and share with other anesthesia providers around the globe. It also provides resource for medical calculators, updates in Anesthesiology and guidelines of care. The app is completely free but it requires the login for full access.
- MDCalc: Developed by board-certified physicians, its easy to use, loaded with risk scores and various algorithms, equations, formulas, classifications, dosing calculators, and more for a busy clinician.
- Royal College of Anaesthetists International Programs Department
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- Thrasher Research Foundation
- Yale J&J Global Health Scholars Program
- RSTMH Grants
- Rockefeller Foundation
- American Philosophical Society
- USAID Global Health Fellowship
- Gates Foundation
- ASA International Anesthesia Resident Scholarship Program
- SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship
- The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI)
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Michael Lipnick, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Program Director of the HEAL Anesthesia Global Health Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. He has served as a contributor to the Global Burden of Disease Study Group and co-founded The Global Health Hub and Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery.