Center for Global Surgery


Center for Global Surgery

The Center for Global Surgery is a network of providers and professionals at the University of Utah who envision a world where safe, effective, and affordable surgical and emergency obstetric care is accessible to all people.

 
Rural settings are characteristically beyond the reach of timely health services; disadvantaged settings like this are ubiquitous throughout the world. Facilities must exist locally in these places with the capabilities to stabilize, diagnosis, and treat any emergent patient suffering traumatic injury in order to avoid needless death and disability, and wasted time and resources for needless long-distance referral. Training in essential emergency surgical care and advanced trauma response combined with data-rich inventories can equip rural facilities to meet a critical need according to a sustainable model.

Spanning multiple departments in close integrated collaboration, the Center positions Surgery and OB-GYN faculty, residents, and medical students to participate more closely in solving the most vexing problems in global health.
 
 
 
 
 

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