Episode Details

Dr. Emilie Joos (@EmilieJoos) is a trauma surgeon at the Vancouver General Hospital.  She is also a Canadian leader in global surgery. We talked about the global response to the Haiti earthquake, challenges in global surgery, and advice to trainees interested in global surgery.

Links:

1. Surgical Response to Humanitarian Crisis in ROSCOE magazine: https://cags-accg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Roscoe_II_2018_FINAL_pages.pdf

2. Dr. Joos's global surgery projects: https://internationalsurgery.med.ubc.ca/global-initiatives/projects/international-projects/

3. McGill Global Surgery webpage: https://www.mcgill.ca/generalsurgery/resident-information/global-surgery

4. Program for Global Surgery & Social Change (PGSSC):https://www.pgssc.org/

5. Lucille Tisdale: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lucille-teasdale

6. Sternotomy or drainage for a hemopericardium after penetrating trauma: a randomized controlled trial. South African trial: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23604058