In one day, Montreal pediatric surgeon Dr. Sherif Emil can operate on the head, neck, abdomen and chest in patients that range from infants to adolescents. He's moved his work from the Montreal Children’s Hospital to West Africa, aboard the Global Mercy ship – a hospital at sea.
From the Montreal Children’s Hospital to a hospital at sea, pediatric surgeon Dr. Sherif Emil is using his expertise to deliver healthcare for free. In March he’ll be off to West Africa to serve aboard the Global Mercy ship. The vessel has doubled in capacity to help pediatric patients’ most urgent surgical needs.
Surgeons at the Montreal Children s Hospital have started using a new approach to help young patients recover from surgery that has already led to shorter hospital stays and fewer opioid prescriptions. The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) model is an approach that puts the full recovery of the patient at the centre of any procedure.
Last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), Sherif Emil, a pediatric surgeon at McGill University, penned a letter criticizing a picture of a young girl in a hijab used in an earlier piece.