Key result
An expert panel review introduced expanded competencies beyond routine surgical practice to optimize the quality of surgical care in austere settings.
Why the study?
Expanded competencies beyond routine surgical practice can optimize care quality in austere settings characterized by limited supplies, deficient infrastructure, triage requirements, or unavailable expertise.
This expert panel review outlines expanded competencies necessary for surgeons to provide optimal care in austere environments such as military deployments, disasters, and low-resource settings.
Supports expanded surgeon training in austere settings; leaves open the need for prospective validation before adoption.
Austerity in surgical care may manifest by limited equipment/supplies, deficient infrastructure (power, water), rationing/triage requirements, or the unavailability of specialty surgical or medical expertise. Some settings in which surgeons may experience austerity include the following: military deployed operations (domestic and foreign), humanitarian surgical missions, care in rural or remote settings, mass-casualty events, natural disasters, and/or care in low- and some middle-income countries. Expanded competencies beyond those required in routine surgical practice can optimize the quality of surgical care in such settings. The purpose of this expert panel review is to introduce those competencies.
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Kauvar et al. (2022) conducted a review in Surgical care in austere settings. Expanded competencies for austere settings was evaluated. An expert panel review introduced expanded competencies beyond routine surgical practice to optimize the quality of surgical care in austere settings.
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