@article{1468363,
      recid = {1468363},
      author = {Abu-Sittah, Ghassan Soleiman. and Hoballah, Jamal J.},
      title = {The war injured child : from point of injury treatment  through management and continuum of care /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Around 1 in 6 of the worlds children live in a conflict  zone, and of these 357 million children, 165 million are  affected by high intensity conflicts. Pediatric war  injuries pose a huge challenge to health professionals  treating such patients. The evidence base on the quality  and scale of this challenge is scarce, and the majority of  clinicians treating these patients are either not  sufficiently experienced in the treatment of war injuries,  are not pediatric surgeons, or both. The majority of the  evidence in the literature comes from a small subset of  children who were managed in well-resourced military  facilities that differ drastically from the conditions in  which the majority of war wounded children are treated.  This book - the first of its kind - is a comprehensive and  state-of-the art guide for both local and humanitarian  non-pediatric specialists who are often forced to operate  on and treat children with war injuries with little or no  previous experience or training. It provides healthcare  workers in conflict settings with knowledge and practical  advice on the entire continuum of care, from point of  injury, to treatment and reconstruction, to rehabilitation  and mental health support. It is comprised of concise yet  comprehensive overviews of the current status of the  pediatric war casualty patient treatment and will help  guide patient management based on evidence from the  literature, clinical and surgical experience and ongoing  research and will stimulate investigative efforts in this  dynamic and active field of war medicine. The book draws on  the knowledge and long experience of clinicians at the  American University of Beirut Medical Center, one of the  largest tertiary care and referral centers in the Middle  East, which has been the foremost civilian academic  hospital treating war injuries, both adult and pediatric,  initially from the Lebanese war and then the Iraqi and  Syrian wars.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468363},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28613-1},
}