Global Health Reading Materials

ESSENTIAL READING FOR FELLOWSHIP

Foundational Documents

• Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Nomenclature

• Glossary of Humanitarian Terms - WHO
• United Nations System - Graphic

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

• Norwak – FEV1 admission criteria for asthma
• Rowe – Effectiveness of Steroid therapy in Acute 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

• Arabi – Intensive vs. conventional insulin therapy in critically ill patients

General Surgery

• Alverado – Practical Score for Acute Appendicitis

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

• Neighbor – AEM_1998 – toradol vs. Motrin

Pediatrics

• Baraff – Pediatric fever without a source 0-36 months
• Quinn – Suture vs. dermabond in kids facial laceration

Toxicology

• Callaham – Epidemiology of fatal TCA ingestion
• Kulig – Acute Poisoning without Gastric Emptying

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

• Uzzan – Efficacy of 4 insect repellants against Mosquito Bites

Gender Based Violence

• Ranney – Novel ED-based sexual assault center in Western Kenya – descriptive study

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

• Chekijian – Global Burden of Road Injuries
• Donaldson – Injury Burden during insurgency – Iraq

Triage

• Gormican – Field Triage of Trauma Victims

Refugees/IDPs

• Feikin – Mortality among IDP Western Kenya Post election violence