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COVID-19 and Orthopaedic International Humanitarianism

As the world continues to adjust to life with COVID-19, one topic that requires further thought and discussion is whether elective international medical volunteerism can continue, and, if so, what challenges will need to be addressed. During a pandemic, the medical community is attentive to controll...

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Autores principales: Talsania, Alec J., Lavy, Chris, Khanuja, Harpal S., Chambers, Hank, Kelly, Nancy A., Gardner, Richard O. E., Nelson, Scott, Wambisho, Biruk L., Alexis, Francel, Lalonde, Donald H., Coughlin, R. Richard, Vosseller, J. Turner, Gokcen, Eric C.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7884298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33570868
http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-20-00222
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author Talsania, Alec J.
Lavy, Chris
Khanuja, Harpal S.
Chambers, Hank
Kelly, Nancy A.
Gardner, Richard O. E.
Nelson, Scott
Wambisho, Biruk L.
Alexis, Francel
Lalonde, Donald H.
Coughlin, R. Richard
Vosseller, J. Turner
Gokcen, Eric C.
author_facet Talsania, Alec J.
Lavy, Chris
Khanuja, Harpal S.
Chambers, Hank
Kelly, Nancy A.
Gardner, Richard O. E.
Nelson, Scott
Wambisho, Biruk L.
Alexis, Francel
Lalonde, Donald H.
Coughlin, R. Richard
Vosseller, J. Turner
Gokcen, Eric C.
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description As the world continues to adjust to life with COVID-19, one topic that requires further thought and discussion is whether elective international medical volunteerism can continue, and, if so, what challenges will need to be addressed. During a pandemic, the medical community is attentive to controlling the disease outbreak, and most of the literature regarding physician involvement during a pandemic focuses primarily on physicians traveling to areas of need to help treat the disease. As a result, little has been written about medical volunteerism that focuses on medical treatment unrelated to the disease outbreak. In a world-wide pandemic, many factors are to be considered in determining whether, and when, a physician should travel to another region to provide care and training for medical issues not directly related to the pandemic. Leaders of humanitarian committees of orthopaedic surgery subspecialties engaged with one another and host orthopaedic surgeons and a sponsoring organization to provide thoughtful insight and expert opinion on the challenges faced and possible pathways to provide continued orthopaedic support around the globe. Although this discussion focuses on international orthopaedic care, these suggestions may have a much broader application to the international medical community as a whole.
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spelling pubmed-78842982021-02-17 COVID-19 and Orthopaedic International Humanitarianism Talsania, Alec J. Lavy, Chris Khanuja, Harpal S. Chambers, Hank Kelly, Nancy A. Gardner, Richard O. E. Nelson, Scott Wambisho, Biruk L. Alexis, Francel Lalonde, Donald H. Coughlin, R. Richard Vosseller, J. Turner Gokcen, Eric C. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev Research Article As the world continues to adjust to life with COVID-19, one topic that requires further thought and discussion is whether elective international medical volunteerism can continue, and, if so, what challenges will need to be addressed. During a pandemic, the medical community is attentive to controlling the disease outbreak, and most of the literature regarding physician involvement during a pandemic focuses primarily on physicians traveling to areas of need to help treat the disease. As a result, little has been written about medical volunteerism that focuses on medical treatment unrelated to the disease outbreak. In a world-wide pandemic, many factors are to be considered in determining whether, and when, a physician should travel to another region to provide care and training for medical issues not directly related to the pandemic. Leaders of humanitarian committees of orthopaedic surgery subspecialties engaged with one another and host orthopaedic surgeons and a sponsoring organization to provide thoughtful insight and expert opinion on the challenges faced and possible pathways to provide continued orthopaedic support around the globe. Although this discussion focuses on international orthopaedic care, these suggestions may have a much broader application to the international medical community as a whole. Wolters Kluwer 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7884298/ /pubmed/33570868 http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-20-00222 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khanuja, Harpal S.
Chambers, Hank
Kelly, Nancy A.
Gardner, Richard O. E.
Nelson, Scott
Wambisho, Biruk L.
Alexis, Francel
Lalonde, Donald H.
Coughlin, R. Richard
Vosseller, J. Turner
Gokcen, Eric C.
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