New report addresses the recovery of surgical services in post-pandemic
In 2013, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) established the GlobalSurg Collaborative, a network that has since grown to include more than 5,000 practicing surgeons from all corners of the planet.
Through GlobalSurg, networks of local, state, national and international researchers have formed to analyze surgical disparities and outcomes. Their mission is to study and advance global surgery, a term used to describe a multidisciplinary field of health care that seeks to improve access to basic surgical procedures for the estimated five billion people worldwide who lack such access.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, some of the GlobalSurg collaborators formed an umbrella group known as the CovidSurg Collaborative. Their mission is to disseminate good, evidence-based data across the world so that hospitals and physicians can form safe surgical environments during the pandemic, establish plans for conducting safe surgeries after the pandemic and provide informed decision-making tools to be shared between the surgeon or anesthesiologist and the patient.