Table of Contents

The Current Global Surgical Care Paradigm.- The Global Surgical Burden of Disease: A Global Health Paradigm.- Surgically Avertable Deaths: A Silent Premise.- Defining Essential Surgical Conditions in LMICs.- Disparity of Surgical Service Provision in LMICs.- Disparities in Provisional Access to Surgical Instruments and Supplies in LMICs.- Surgical Interventions in Global Health: Social and Economic Implications.- Surgery: A Highly Cost-Effective Health Intervention.- The Economic Returns of Surgical Interventions.- Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditures: A Perspective.- The Social Returns of Surgical Interventions.- Dimensional Printing and Rapid Prototyping: Implications for Global Health.- The Dawn of Disruptive Innovations and Frugal Engineering.- 3-Dimensional Printing: An Introduction to Rapid Device Prototyping and Fabrication.- The RepRap Rapid Prototyping Device and Fused Deposition Modeling.- 3-Dimensional Device Fabrication: Bio-Based Materials and Thermoplastics.- Bio-Based Thermoplastic Polymers in 3D Printing.- Polylactic-Acid: Bio-Based Thermoplastic Polymer Properties and Medical Device Applications.- Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Thermoplastics: Mechanical and Chemical Profile.- Chemical and Mechanical Profile Modification of Bio-Based Materials: Polymeric Blending and Natural Polymer Enhancement.- 3-Dimensional Printing of Medical Devices and Supplies.- The Current State of 3-Dimensional Printing: Fabrication of Medical Devices and Supplies.- Fabrication of High-Utility Integrative Surgical Toolkits.- 3-Dimensional Printing in the Surgical Field: Field Applications and Considerations.- 3-Dimensional Printing: Interventional Capacities in the Global Health Arena.- 3D Printed Instrument and Medical Supply Price Competencies.- Barriers to Entry and Adoption of Medical Device Innovations in LMICs.- 3D Printing: A Paradigm Shift in the Global Medical Device and Humanitarian Supply Chain.- 3D Printing: Global Open Source Blueprint and Information Dissemination.- The Future of Bio-Based Materials Development in Medical Device Fabrication.