When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS and Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS were talking about the difficulty in doing surgery under such conditions. They looked for official guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They were dismayed to realize there was no official guidance.
To address this issue, they developed “Surgical protocol for possible for confirmed Ebola cases. A draft was circulated among professional societies and posted on the American College of Surgeons website: here.
They subsequently collected first person accounts of the effects of Ebola on surgical care in the U.S. and in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Operation Ebola: Surgical care during the West African outbreak is the result.
The book is available from Johns Hopkins University Press or on Amazon.
Operation Health: A series of books on surgery and global health from Johns Hopkins University Press 