Background: In 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti resulting in a surge of orthopaedic trauma requiring immediate surgical treatment. Safe and efficient operative management of orthopaedic trauma injuries requires intraoperative fluoroscopy through C-arm machines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Republic of Haiti. The human cost was enormous-an estimated 316,000 people were killed, and a further 300,000 were injured.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Global health conferences are important platforms for knowledge exchange, decision-making and personal and professional growth for attendees. Neocolonial patterns in global health at large and recent opinion reports indicate that stakeholders from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) may be under-represented at such conferences. This study aims to describe the factors that impact LMIC representation at global health conferences.
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