Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most common postoperative complication
worldwide. WHO guidelines to prevent SSI recommend alcoholic chlorhexidine skin preparation …

Background/Objective There is a severe surgical workforce shortage in Rwanda. Innovative
educational tools must be introduced to train more residents and increase surgical capacity. …

Gastroschisis mortality is 75–100% in low-resource settings. In Rwanda, late deaths are
often due to sepsis. We aimed to understand the effect of antimicrobial use on survival. We …

This requires a patient to travel back to hospital for a face-to-face evaluation at 30 days
postoperatively. This is problematic for several reasons in low-income and middle-income …

Background Management of critically ill patients is a challenge in low resource settings where
there is a paucity of trained staff, infrastructure, resources, and drugs. We aimed to study …

Background Trauma remains a leading cause of child mortality and disability worldwide,
taking the lives of 1 million children annually. Of all deaths from pediatric trauma, 95% occur in …

Background: Access to safe surgery is critical to health, welfare and economic development.
In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) recommended that all …

Background: Long-term intravenous (IV) access is necessary for surgical neonates. Unfortunately,
peripheral IVs (PIVs) require frequent replacement, and peripherally inserted central …

Background: Trauma remains a leading cause of child mortality and disability worldwide,
taking the lives of 1 million children annually. Of all deaths from pediatric trauma, 95% occur in …

Background: Anal disorders are rarely evoked by patients in Mali, making it difficult to
diagnose them and often late to manage them. Our objective was to study the diagnostic and …