While money and supplies are vital for medical professionals operating in Ukraine, an additional source of assistance has been training provided by the Centre for Global Surgery at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. With a decade long relationship, the Centre has been offering trauma care training for years to those in Ukraine, beginning in Donetsk. Once the recent conflict started, they quickly ramped up that relationship to produce videos coving basic instructions for trauma care for those who may not be surgeons.
Says Dr. Dan Deckelbaum, co-director at the centre, “You can be a dermatologist, an internist, a cardiologist, and you may have not done this procedure ever or it’s been a very long time. But now, during the war, you’re called upon to actually perform these life-saving procedures.”
So far, roughly a dozen videos have been produced, using McGill’s Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning, which have then been translated into Ukrainian and sent directly to Ukrainian healthcare workers, although plans are underway for setting up a more centralized distribution method.
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(https://reporter.mcgill.ca/virtual-training-to-support-ukrainian-healthcare-workers/)