The project currently focuses on four key areas: The overall aim of this project is to understand and identify strategies to improve how surgical resources are used in armed conflict. Many medical interventions in armed conflicts have previously more focused on doing good rather than doing right resulting in suboptimal use of surgical resources and outcome for patients. For civilian health care personnel, especially surgeons, with no experience of war injuries, this represents a major challenge. Several studies have documented that armed conflict cause a breakdown of existing health care systems rapidly resulting in limited or no surgical resources to treat potentially life-threatening, injuries.įurthermore, injuries from armed conflict are often more complex and treatment frequently requires more extensive resources than injuries seen in a non-conflict setting. According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, there are currently 49 on-going armed conflicts in the world, mainly in low- and middle-income countries.
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