Agati, S.; Bellanti, E. Global Cardiac Surgery—Accessibility to Cardiac Surgery in Developing Countries: Objectives, Challenges, and Solutions. Children2023, 10, 1789.
Agati, S.; Bellanti, E. Global Cardiac Surgery—Accessibility to Cardiac Surgery in Developing Countries: Objectives, Challenges, and Solutions. Children 2023, 10, 1789.
Agati, S.; Bellanti, E. Global Cardiac Surgery—Accessibility to Cardiac Surgery in Developing Countries: Objectives, Challenges, and Solutions. Children2023, 10, 1789.
Agati, S.; Bellanti, E. Global Cardiac Surgery—Accessibility to Cardiac Surgery in Developing Countries: Objectives, Challenges, and Solutions. Children 2023, 10, 1789.
Abstract
Cardiac surgery is a modern science in the history of medicine. The impact in cardiac disease, in term of treatment and prognosis, has made this discipline indispensable in the global health. In recent decades, the greatest investment has been dispensed in technological and material improvement, for increase the life expectancy. This surgery must address different epidemiological aspects dictated by the geography and economic-social conditions of the global populations. For this reason, it is progressively important to address the cardiac surgery accessibility disparity. Many scientific paper and international meetings have studied how cardiac surgery can increase accessibility in various countries around the world. In this review we analyze all the challenges, solutions and suggestions to make this surgery accessible to the entire global population, with the purpose to reducing the disparity across the all seven continents. For a long time, high-income countries have invested in technological capabilities and experimental advancement, not caring about unequal access in the rest of the world. We believe that it is time to reverse the growth trajectory, placing – as a priority – the accessibility and distribution of a surgical science, too significant for the right to health of all the people of the world. This is the real new challenge in cardiosurgery.
Keywords
global cardiac surgery; global surgery; surgical accessibility
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Surgery
Copyright:
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