Posterior Fossa Tumor Surgery
6 Posterior Fossa Tumor Surgery Audrice Francois I. Introduction II. Neuroanatomy of the posterior fossa III. Types of posterior fossa tumors and associated pathophysiology IV. Diagnostic tests and neuroimaging V….
ANESTHESIA
Letters from Around the World
(2) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA It is Monday morning, warm even at this early hour. By midday it will be a scorcher….
Planning a Mission, Fundraising, and Building a Team
Fig. 5.1 Site assessment form example. These document samples are the property of Kybele, Inc. If you use these or any part of these materials in publication, kindly reference that…
Anesthetic Management During the Lebanese Civil War
Fig. 21.1 (a, b) The AUB clock Tower before and after destruction. (c) Center of Beirut destroyed Statistics Between April 1975 and November 1976, 8,324 casualties came though the Emergency…
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care: What Is the Role of Missions?
Fig. 16.1 The increase in the absolute number of percutaneous coronary interventions versus the number of open heart surgeries from 1983–1985 to present. X axis: year. Y axis: number of…
Medical Missions: A Short History from There to Here
Fig. 1.1 Maimonides eighteenth-century portrait of Maimonides, from the Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum by Blaisio Ugolino (Wikipedia accessed March 11th 2014) During the Middle Ages, Catholicism became dominant in the religious…
Anesthesiologists’ Role in Disaster Management
Fig. 23.1 Hurricane Katrina http://densitykatrina.wordpress.com Worldwide demographic analysis has proven that many heavily concentrated populations are located along major fault lines [3]. Such population trends predispose large numbers of people…
The Future of Anesthesiology and Global Health in a Connected World
Fig. 29.1 Worldwide mobile cellular subscriptions relative to population. Worldwide, the number of mobile cellular subscriptions approaches the population, demonstrating the increasingly universal access to cellular technology. Source: International Telecommunications…
Living the Mission in Serbia and Other Less Affluent Worlds
Fig. 20.1 AAF Salzburg medical seminar “Severe Bleeding Management” and point-of-care testing workshop, Salzburg, Austria, July 2012 Outreach Anesthesia Team Benefit Surgical and anesthesiology education as a part of the…
