Global efforts for effective training in fistula surgery

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• 作者：Sohier Elneil ; ^{sohier.elneil@ucl.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Implementation ; Obstetric fistula ; Outcomes ; Standardized training ; Surgery
• 刊名：International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：131
• 期：supp_S1
• 页码：S64-S66
• 全文大小：150 K

文摘

Obstetric fistulas continue to be a problem in low- and middle-income nations, affecting women of childbearing age during pregnancy and labor and resulting in debilitating urinary and/or fecal incontinence. Historically, this predicament also affected women in high-income nations until the middle of the last century. This is not a “new world” crisis therefore, but simply one of economic and health development. In the last two decades, new global initiatives have been instituted to improve training and education in preventative and curative fistula treatment by developing a unified and competency-based learning tool by surgeons in the field in partnership with FIGO and its global partners. This modern approach to the management of a devastating condition can only serve to achieve the WHO objective of health security for women throughout their life span.