The Role of Neurosurgery in Countries with Limited Facilities: Facts and Challenges.

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The Role of Neurosurgery in Countries with Limited Facilities: Facts and Challenges.

World Neurosurg. 2018 Jan 20;:

Authors: Servadei F, Rossini Z, Nicolosi F, Morselli C, Park KB

Abstract
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery has recently focused the attention on the lack of surgical care worldwide. Like other surgical subspecialties, neurosurgical care needs to be better distributed around the world, with a major attention to the low-middle income countries. Neurosurgical diseases like hydrocephalus, traumatic brain injury and brain tumours have a high impact on families, individual quality of life and cost for the society. Implementation of neurosurgical care in poor settings is not easy. More than other surgeries, neurosurgery requires high human resources, dedicated environments and specialized post-operative care. It is responsibility of the neurosurgical community to identify major areas of current gaps and outline strategies for intervention.

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