Publications by authors named "Ayla Gerk Rangel"
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- Appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in children, and a study analyzed how well the Brazilian public healthcare system handles it based on various hospital features and patient profiles.
- In 2022, nearly 30,000 pediatric appendectomies were performed, with over 90% being open surgeries, predominantly in basic-facility general hospitals.
- Although full-facility hospitals had higher costs for surgeries, the overall mortality rate was low across all hospital types, indicating that children received adequate care regardless of the facility's resources.
Introduction: Women are underrepresented in surgical authorship. Using big data analyses, we aimed to investigate women's representation as first and last authors in surgical publications worldwide and identify underlying predictors.
Methods: We retrieved eligible surgical journals using Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2021.
The 35th Brazilian Congress of Surgery marked a turning point for surgical education in the country. For the first time, the Brazilian College of Surgeons included Global Surgery on the main congressional agenda, providing a unique opportunity to rethink how surgical skills are taught from a public health perspective. This discussion prompts us to consider why and how Global Surgery education should be expanded in Brazil.
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- The study examined women's representation on editorial boards of surgical, anesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) journals in Latin America in 2021.
- Despite analyzing 19 out of 25 journals, women only held 17% of editorial positions, with fewer in academic roles (14.3%) compared to senior (28.9%) and non-academic (38.4%) ones.
- The findings indicate significant underrepresentation of women, particularly in surgical journals, and suggest the need for strategies to promote gender equity in SAO specialties.
Background: The impact of public health policy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 on access to surgical care is poorly defined. We aim to quantify the surgical backlog during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brazilian public health system and determine the relationship between state-level policy response and the degree of state-level delays in public surgical care.
Methods: Monthly estimates of surgical procedures performed per state from January 2016 to December 2020 were obtained from Brazil's Unified Health System Informatics Department.