Why the study?
Children present unique surgical, anesthetic, and perioperative challenges, offering an opportunity to prevent death and disability by scaling up surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
Scaling up and integrating children's surgical care into national plans can prevent death and reduce disability in low- and middle-income countries.
May warrant integration of children's surgical care into national plans in LMICs; extends global surgery frameworks to pediatric populations.
Surgical care has an incontrovertible, crosscutting role in achieving child health. Children develop different surgical diseases compared to adults, present unique anesthetic challenges, and have special perioperative needs. The Optimal Resources for Children’s Surgery document provides a strategy for integrating surgical care for children into National Surgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia Plans. There is an important opportunity to prevent death and reduce disability in children by scaling up surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
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Grabski et al. (2019) studied Children's surgical care in low- and middle-income countries. Optimal Resources for Children's Surgical Care (OReCS) guidelines was evaluated. The Global Initiative for Children's Surgery developed the Optimal Resources for Children's Surgical Care document to provide guidelines for essential surgical care for children in low- and middle-income countries.
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