Models for Delivering High Quality Emergency Neurosurgery in High Income Countries

How emergency surgery has evolved to meet the requirements of unscheduled care and overview of emergency neurosurgery in various countries.

Matthew A. Boissaud-Cooke (Author), Marike Broekman (Author), Jeroen van Dijck (Author), Marco Lee (Author), Paul Grundy (Author)

9781009366106, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 February 2024

28 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm, 0.06 kg

Emergency neurosurgery encompasses serious and high-risk cranial and spinal conditions across all ages. The authors provide an overview of the changes occurring within emergency surgery to meet the challenges provided from unscheduled care. Considering the wider landscape of emergency surgery provides a context for the changes occurring within emergency neurosurgery. The delivery of emergency neurosurgery within the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United States of America (USA) is then described to provide an overview of different models of care.

Introduction
Unscheduled care
The Evolving Nature of Emergency Surgery
Emergency Neurosurgery
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Accident & emergency medicine [MMK]