Global Health Fellowship (Emergency Medicine)
Global Health Reading Materials
ESSENTIAL READING FOR FELLOWSHIP
Foundational Documents
Nomenclature
Infectious Diseases
- WHO – Communicable Disease following Natural Disasters
- WHO – Position Paper on Cholera vaccine
- WHO – on Influenza Vaccine
- WHO – on Measles Vaccine
- WHO – on Meningococcal Vaccine
- WHO – Mumps Vaccine
- WHO 2007 – Standardized Tx of Bacterial Meningitis in Africa
Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
- Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees – UNHCR
- NRC – Status of Internally Displaced Persons – 2014
- UNHCR – Epidemic Preparedness Response in Refugee Camp Settings
Reports on Humanitarian Assistance
- Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports – 2011
- Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports – 2012
- Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports – 2013
- ALNAP State of Humanitarian Progress – 2012
Critiques of Scientific Articles
- Critical Appraisal of Scientific Articles – Part 1 of 3 – Du Prel et al
- Study Design in Medical Research – Part 2 of 3 – Rohrig et al
- Critical Appraisal of Scientific Articles – Part 3 of 3 – Rohrig et al
Emergency Medicine Articles
Asthma
Cardiology
- Becker – Outcome of CPR – Where are the Survivors?
- Eisenberg – Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Gibler – Chest Pain Center
- Kellerman – In Hospital Resuscitation after field arrest
- McCarthy – Missed Diagnosis of AMI in the ED
- Rusnak – Common Features of Lawsuits missed MI
Critical Care
General Surgery
Infectious Diseases
- DeWaele – Management of Necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections
- Gransden – risk factors for Pseudomonas
Interesting Lessons
- Blair – Eval of IMA ligation for relief of angina pectoris
- Diamond – IMA ligation vs. Sham for Angina
- Cobb – evaluation of IMA ligation – double blind study
Laceration Repair
- Bartfield – Buffered vs. Plain Lidocaine for nerve blocks
- Christoph – Pain reduction with buffering local anesthetic
- ed. Lido with pi for digital nerve blocks
Neurology
- Rutherford – Symptoms at 1 year following concussion from minor head injury
- Thorn – Delayed Neuropsychiatric sequelae after CO poisoning
Pain Control
Pediatrics
- Baraff – Pediatric fever without a source 0-36 months
- Quinn – Suture vs. dermabond in kids facial laceration
Toxicology
Global Health Articles
Complex Emergencies
- Babcock – Academic Health Center in Complex Emergencies – Haiti Earthquake
- Kirsch – Int’l response to Haiti Earthquake – Review article
EMS/Pre-hospital
- Nakahara – Exploring referral systems for injured patients in low income countries – Cambodia
- Sadewasser – Standard medication kit for pre-hospital physicians
Etymology
Gender Based Violence
Infectious Diseases
- Alam – Partner notification for STD in developing nations – review article
- Brooks – Influenza as major contributor to childhood pneumonia in tropical developing country
- Cochrane Review – Antibiotics for Children with Pneumonia
- Cochrane Review – Probiotics for Treating Infectious Diarrhea
- Corbett – Provider-Initiated symptoms screening for Tb – Zimbabwe
- Ghimire – Community-based interventions for diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections – Nepal
- Hart – Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries
- Levine – Ultrasound assessment of severe dehydration in children with diarrhea and vomiting
- Mueller – Explanation of meningococcal epidemics in Africa
- Munos – Effect of ORS and recommended home fluids on diarrheal mortality
- Nathan – Ceftriaxone vs. Chloramphenicol in meningococcal meningitis Treatment
- Nga – Cognitive Outcomes and Deworming
- Pilger – Household-wide Ivermectin treatment for head lice
- Rabbani – Green banana diet to treat diarrhea – Bangladesh
- Santaniello – Management of Meningococcal outbreak in Sudanese refugee camp 2000
- Scarborough – Diagnosis and Treatment of bacterial meningitis resource poor settings
- Thomas – CID meningeal signs at bedside – value of physical exam
- Thwaits – predicting tetanus severity – Tetanus severity score
Mental Health
- Berger – Intervention for reducing secondary trauma in nurses following war
- Zraly – Ethnographic study of resilience among rape survivors – Rwanda
Mobile Medical Units
- Gibson – Accessibility and utilization of MMU among vulnerable populations
- Prabhakaran – Cost of ambulatory care by MMU
Nutrition
- Bern – Is MUAC useful in Emergency Settings?
- ed. Trehan antibiotics in Severe Acute Malnutrition
- Trehan – Antibiotics as part of treatment for acute malnutrition
- Huybregts – Effect of RTE Supplemental food on Child Nutrition
- Karakochuk – Treatment of MAM Corn-soy vs. other
- Save the Children – Casual Analysis Malnutrition
- WHO Child Growth Standards and Identification of SAM
Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Blum – Treatment of Post-Partum hemorrhage SL misoprostol vs. oxytocin (2 of 2)
- Kramer – Breastfeeding and Infant Growth
- Lonkhuijzen – review effectiveness in training of emergency OB care in low-resource environments
- Mwansa Kambafwile – Antenatal steroids in Preterm Labor for prevention of neonatal death
- Waldemar – High mortality in infants in developing countries despite training
- Winikoff – Treatment of post-partum hemorrhage with SL misoprostol vs. oxytocin (1 of 2)
Trauma
Triage
Refugees/IDPs