Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2016 Aug;92:108-112. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.04.088. Epub 2016 May 2.
The medical infrastructure of Iraqi Kurdistan, a semiautonomous region in the northern part of Iraq, lags disproportionately behind relative to the otherwise booming industrial advances of the region. Although neurosurgical training is available, the local population lacks trust in its own neurosurgeons. Medical facilities suffer from a lack of basic resources, such as high-speed drills, intracranial pressure monitoring, and stereotaxy to care for neurosurgical patients. Since 2012, American volunteer neurosurgeons have delivered lectures and mentored local neurosurgeons in performing neurosurgical procedures. Over the last 4 years, the visiting neurosurgical team has seen hundreds of patients in consultation and performed more than 50 complex cranial and spinal operations jointly with local neurosurgeons. This article discusses our experience as volunteer neurosurgeons in building neurosurgical capacity in Iraqi Kurdistan.
伊拉克库尔德斯坦的医疗基础设施相对滞后，与该地区其他蓬勃发展的工业进步极不相称。尽管有神经外科培训，但当地居民对自己的神经外科医生缺乏信任。医疗设施缺乏基本资源，如高速钻头、颅内压监测和立体定向仪，无法为神经外科患者提供护理。自 2012 年以来，美国志愿神经外科医生一直在为当地神经外科医生提供讲座和指导，以进行神经外科手术。在过去的 4 年中，来访的神经外科团队已经为数百名患者提供了咨询，并与当地神经外科医生一起进行了 50 多次复杂的颅脑和脊柱手术。本文讨论了我们作为志愿神经外科医生在伊拉克库尔德斯坦建立神经外科能力的经验。
