The Lancet commission on global health was initiated about 2 years ago to address the current inequalities in delivery of global surgery and anesthesia care…
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
2015 Gout Classification Criteria
An international group of investigators, supported by the American College of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism, conducted a systematic review of the literature on advanced imaging of gout, a diagnostic study in which the…
Read more »Rural Surgery Presentation at GAPIO Conference: A Summary
The Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin is an organization that intends to connect the 1.2 million physicians of Indian origin working all over the World…
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Tagged GAPIO, operating room experiences, rural conference reports, rural healthcare
Volume: 5
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Costs and Consequences of Using Interferon-γ Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Active Tuberculosis in India
Interferon-gamma Release Assays (IGRAs), including QuantiFERON-TB Gold In Tube (Cellestis, Carnegie, Australia) and T-SPOT.TB (Oxford Immunotec, Oxfordshire, UK), are immunological tests that are widely used to detect…
Read more »Take Home Messages from the 2015 WHO – Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) Meeting in Geneva
A Personal Account by Dr. J. Gnanaraj BACKGROUND The tenth meeting of the Global Initiative on Emergency and Essential Surgical care [GIEESC] had the primary objective of deciding on the roadmap for the implementation of the World Health Assembly resolution No. 68.15 of the World Health Organization [WHO]. The author…
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Tagged operating room experiences, rural conference reports, rural healthcare, surgical care
Volume: 5
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Surgery Course Enrollment at No Cost to Doctors
SEESHA and Karunya University are offering a FREE online course “Gasless Laparoscopic Surgery”. Plus after you complete the course, you will receive hands-on training during the surgical camps!
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Tagged gasless laparoscopic surgery, operating room experiences, rural healthcare
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Video: Gasless Laparoscopic Surgeries Taking Minimally Invasive Surgery to the Poor – SEESHA
Dr. J. Gnanaraj MS, MCh [Urology], FICS, FARSI, FIAGES is a urologist and laparoscopic surgeon trained at CMC Vellore. He has been appointed as a Professor in the Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department of Karunya University and is the Director of Medical Services of the charitable organization SEESHA. He has…
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