Ashley Rosenberg, Ignace Kabagema, Basil Asay, Jean Marie Uwitonze, Stephanie Louka, Menelas Nkeshimana, Gabin Mbanjumucyo, Luke Wolfe, Catherine Valukas, Theophile Dushime, Sudha Jayaraman
Introduction: Every year, >5 million people worldwide die from trauma. In Kigali, Rwanda, 50% of prehospital care provided by SAMU, the public prehospital system, is for trauma. Our collaboration developed and implemented a context-specific, prehospital Emergency Trauma Care Course (ETCC) and train-the-trainers program for SAMU, based on established international best practices. Methods: A context-appropriate two-day ETCC was developed using established best practices consisting of traditional 30-minute lectures followed by 20-minute practical scenario-based team-driven simulation sessions...
December 2020: African Journal of Emergency Medicine Revue