Operation Crisis

Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS, is an associate in the Department of International Health and a faculty member in the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The founding director of Surgeons OverSeas, he has provided surgical care to patients in conflict, post-conflict, and disaster settings around the world. He is the editor of Operation Health: Surgical Care in the Developing World and the coeditor of Operation Ebola: Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak.

Preface: Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS Part I. Personal perspectivesChapter 1: Surgical care after the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake, Kapendra Shekhar Amatya, MBBS, MSChapter 2: A heath system destroyed: Surgical care in Syria, Samer Attar, MD and Shailvi Gupta, MD, MPH Chapter 3: A surgeon's day in South Sudan, Michael Sinclair, MD Chapter 4: An obstetrician in the field: Some lessons learned, Maria "Tane" Pilar Luna, MD Part II. Surgical care principlesChapter 5: Triage and training: A mass casualty incident in Sierra Leone, Lucas Carlson, MD, MPH, Thaim B. Kamara, MD, FWACS and T. Peter Kingham, MD, FACS Chapter 6: Wounds and fractures: Orthopedics after the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, Dattesh Dave, B.S., MSc and Richard Gosselin, MD, MPH Chapter 7: Burn care: Experience from the Nepalese civil war, Barclay T. Stewart, MD, MscPH and Brijesh Mishra, MS, MCh Chapter 8: Anesthesia: An assessment mission in the Congo, Marten van Wijhe, MD, PhD Chapter 9: Obstetrics and gynecology during a civil war, Judy M. Lee, MD, MPH, MBAChapter 10: Sexual violence: Genital fistula and conflict, Lauri J. Romanzi MD, FACOG and Edna Adan Ismail, SRN, CMB, SCM Part III: A way forwardChapter 11: Advocating for a cause: Documenting land mine injuries in Cambodia, James C. Cobey, MD, MPH, FACS Chapter 12: After the Haiti Earthquake: Evan G. Wong, MD, MPH, and Dan L. Deckelbaum, MD, MPH, FACS Chapter 13: US military Joint Trauma System and roles of care, LTC Kyle N. Remick, MD and Col Jeffrey A. Bailey, MD, FACS Conclusion: Barclay Stewart, MD, MscPH and Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS Index