Management of cleft lip and palate in the developing world / edited by Michael Mars, Debbie Sell, Alex Habel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mars, Michael.

Sell, D. A. (Debbie A.)

Habel, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cleft lip--Developing countries.

Cleft lip.

Cleft palate--Developing countries.

Cleft palate.

Cleft Lip--surgery.

Cleft Palate--surgery.

Child.

Cleft Lip--rehabilitation.

Cleft Palate--rehabilitation.

Developing Countries.

Medical Missions.

Developing countries.

Medical Subjects:

Cleft Lip--surgery.

Cleft Palate--surgery.

Child.

Cleft Lip--rehabilitation.

Cleft Palate--rehabilitation.

Developing Countries.

Medical Missions.

Physical Description:

xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, [2008]

Summary:

This book explores the complex issues surrounding the management of cleft lip and palate in the developing world, and aims to raise the profile of a condition commonly considered to be of only cosmetic importance in countries where infant and child mortality rates are high. It provides information and guidelines to three groups: those in the developing world setting up programmes of cleft lip and palate care, and western clinicians delivering care in that context, as well as clinicians in the developing world itself. The book is multidisciplinary, demonstrating the role of every member of the team, not just the surgeon, and includes contributions from charity organisations which support these cleft lip and palate programmes. Each area of clinical practice is covered, comparing typical care in the west with that in the developing world, and contains practical suggestions as to how the gap may be narrowed.

Management of Cleft Lip and Palate in the Developing World is an important resource for anyone who has - or who plans to have - a commitment to develop services in that environment and to clinicians in the developing world faced with large numbers of cleft lip and palate patients and limited resources of materials and manpower.

Contents:

Exporting plastic surgical care to developing countries / Evan S. Garfein, Jacqueline Hom and John B. Mulliken

So you want to help in a less developed country? / Bruce Richard

Challenges for cleft care in the developing and developed world / Brian Sommerlad

Cleft lip and palate management in the developing world: primary and secondary surgery and its delivery / James Lehman

Anaesthesia for cleft lip and palate surgery in the developing world / Sarah Hodges and Isabeau Walker

Operation Smile / Bill Magee

Rotaplast International: a study in medical volunteerism / Angelo Capozzi

Logistics and nursing issues / Priscilla Jurkovich

The Sri Lankan cleft lip and palate project / Sanath P. Lamabadusuriya and Michael Mars

Facial growth in cleft lip and palate subjects / Michael Mars

Paediatric care in developing countries: an integrated (holistic) approach / Albert C. Goldberg and Alex Habel

Disability, culture and cleft lip and palate / Mary Wickenden

Psychological and social aspects of CL/P in the developing world, including implications of late surgery or no surgery / Eileen Bradbury and Alex Habel

The background, establishment and function of a parents/patients support group in Sri Lanka / Parakrama Wijekoon

Speech in the unoperated or late operated cleft lip and palate patient / Debbie Sell

Speech therapy delivery and cleft lip and palate in the developing world / Debbie Sell

ENT and audiology care for cleft palate patients in the developing world / Tony Sirimanna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470019689

0470019689

OCLC:

154798402

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