Management of Cleft Lip and Palate in the Developing World

by Editor: Michael Mars (Great Ormond Street Hospital ); Co-Editor: Alex Habel (Great Ormond Street Hospital ); Co-Editor: Debbie Sell (Great Ormaond Street Hopsital, london)

• ISBN13: 9780470518168
• ISBN10: 0470518162
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book explores the complex issues surrounding the management of cleft lip and palate in the Developing World, and aims to raise the profile of a condition commonly considered to be of only cosmetic importance in countries where infant and child mortality rates are high. It provides information and guidelines to three groups: those in the Developing World setting up programmes of cleft lip and palate care, and clinicians from developed countries delivering care in that context, as well as clinicians in the Developing World itself. The book is multidisciplinary, demonstrating the role of every member of the team, not just the surgeon, and includes contributions from charity organisations which support these cleft lip and palate programmes. Each area of clinical practice is covered, comparing typical care in developed countries with that in the Developing World, and contains practical suggestions as to how the gap may be narrowed. Management of Cleft Lip and Palate in the Developing World is an important resource for anyone having ­- or planning to have - a commitment to develop services in that environment and to clinicians in the Developing World faced with large numbers of cleft lip and palate patients and limited resources of materials and manpower.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

Surgery And Anaesthesia

Exporting Plastic Surgical Care to Developing Countries

So You Want to Help in a Less Developed Country?

Challenges for Cleft Care in the Developing and the Developed World

Cleft Lip and Palate Management in the DevelopingWorld: Primary and Secondary Surgery and Its Delivery

Anaesthesia for Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery in the DevelopingWorld

Approaches To Organization

Operation Smile

Rotaplast International: A Study in Medical Volunteerism

Logistics and Nursing Issues

The Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project

Facial Growth Research

Facial Growth in Cleft Lip and Palate Subjects

Medical Management, Disability, Psychological And Social Aspects

Paediatric Care in Developing Countries: An Integrated (Holistic) Approach

Disability, Culture and Cleft Lip and Palate

Psychological and Social Aspects of CL/P in the DevelopingWorld, Including Implications of Late Surgery or No Surgery

The Background, Establishment and Function of a Parents/Patients Support Group in Sri Lanka

Speech And Audiology

Speech in the Unoperated or Late Operated Cleft Lip and Palate Patient

Speech Therapy Delivery and Cleft Lip and Palate in the DevelopingWorld

ENT and Audiology Care for Cleft Palate Patients in the DevelopingWorld

Index

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