Children's surgery and the emergency, critical, and operative care resolution: immediate actions to eliminate disparities in surgical anesthesia and perioperative care for all children

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia, Global Initiative for Children's Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, S-321, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. [email protected].
• ² Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
• ³ Global Surgery Programs, IRD Global, Singapore, Singapore.
• ⁴ Global Surgery Programs, IRD Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan.
• ⁵ Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.
• ⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Anesthesia, The Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Monash Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.