Hemorrhage Control in the Prehospital Setting

Crash Savers Trauma

What's in this course?

This course is focused on teaching first responders in low resource settings how to stop bleeding in injured individuals and prevent mortality from hemorrhagic shock.

Surgery

Prehospital care, Trauma Surgery. 

Target Audience

This course has been designed for first responders and prehospital personnel.

Level

Basic

Timing

All content could be completed within 1 day.

Varied activities

Written lectures, videos, interactive app and simulations, illustrations and quizzes.

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Course Authors

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Dr. Sabrina Asturias
Sabrina Asturias, MD, MSc, is a primary investigator and leader of the CrashSavers team. She is Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery at Hospital Roosevelt, in Guatemala City and Chair of Surgery at Francisco Marroquin School of Medicine. After her medical and surgical training in Guatemala, she completed a fellowship in trauma surgery at the Los Angeles County Trauma Center. Her research interests are focused on global surgery, trauma care in low-resource settings, removing barriers for blood donation, and pre-hospital care. She is a prior recipient of a NIH Fogarty Institute grant, through which she developed Guatemala’s first trauma registry. She has given multiple talks around the world regarding her frontline work as a trauma surgeon in a low resource environment, including at the World Health Assembly. As a professor of simulation at the medical university, she combines this expertise with her skills in trauma management to work with first responders on simulation programs to improve prehospital care. 
DR. Nakul P. Raykar
Nakul P. Raykar, MD, MPH, is a primary investigator and leader of the CrashSavers team. He is a trauma surgeon with a focus on the intersection of global health, public health, and surgery and the fellowship director of the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and Director of the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition. While he was completing his general surgery training at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he obtained his Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellowship at the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. During this time, he also served as one of the core writers and Implementation Commissioner for The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He then completed a trauma, acute care, and global health surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2020. His research interests are focused on novel strategies for blood transfusion, hemorrhage control techniques, and trauma systems in low-resource settings.
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Héctor Chicas
Firefighter & Instructor of Técnicos en Urgencias Médicas Avanzados, Guatemala
Dr. Gabriel Escalona
Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río, Chile
Dr. Rashi Jhunjhunwala
Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard, USA
DR. Amelia Levi
MedStar Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center, USA
Ricardo Miranda
Engineer- Digital Strings, Guatemala
Dr. José Carlos Monzón
Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala
Dr. Pablo OtTolino
Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río, Chile
Dr. Analia Zinco
Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río, Chile

This course is provided by CrashSavers Trauma

Despite bearing the brunt of morbidity and mortality from trauma, low- and middle-income countries lack the prehospital personnel and the hospital resources to effectively deal with this burden. Recognizing that hemorrhage is responsible for the majority of these deaths, CrashSavers Trauma was created, to train first responders in low resource settings in hemorrhage control. 
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