Abstract:

Mobile Surgery (MS) is an innovative method of delivering high quality surgical expertise and technology to underprivileged and remote areas. This is done by means of transporting a custom-built operating room in a truck and performing the operations on-site. Patients are referred to our program by rural doctors and family physicians. A screening process is completed by our surgical team, and those patients who meet our selection criteria are offered surgical treatment. Operations are meticulously performed and patients recover under our close observation in rural health centers, school rooms, or tents with our Mobile Surgical Unit (MSU) stationed adjacent to them.

Authors:

Edgar Rodas, M.D., F.A.C.S. - University of Cuenca-Equador, School of Medicine, Cuenca, Ecuador; Edgar B. Rodas, M.D. - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

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