RESUMEN
1.7 billion children lack access to surgical care worldwide. The emergency, critical, and operative care (ECO) resolution represents a call to action to reinvigorate the efforts to address these disparities. We review the ECO resolution and highlight the avenues that may be utilized in advocating for children's surgical care.
Asunto(s)
Disparidades en Atención de Salud , Atención Perioperativa , Humanos , Niño , Disparidades en Atención de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Atención Perioperativa/métodos , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud , Anestesia/métodos , Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Operativos/estadística & datos numéricos , PediatríaRESUMEN
Around 1.7 billion children lack access to surgical care worldwide. To reinvigorate the efforts to address these disparities and support work to address global challenges in surgery, anesthesia, emergency, and critical care, the World Health Assembly passed World Health Organization Resolution World Health Assembly 76.2: Integrated emergency, critical and operative care for universal health coverage and protection from health emergencies (ECO) in 2023. This resolution highlights the integral role of surgery, anesthesia, and perioperative care in health systems. However, understanding how best to operationalize this resolution is challenging. We review the ECO resolution and highlight points that the pediatric surgical and anesthesia community can leverage to advocate for its recommendations for operative care.
