This project builds on our previous work on improving in-hospital emergency care and aims to improve out-of-hospital emergency care to save lives. This pilot program will have ECPs serve in two week rotations on the ambulance service in Kampala, providing full time coverage for the ambulances with a focus on responding to the most critical cases. Given their extensive experience, they will give input into how the model of staffing ambulances with non-physician emergency care providers functions.
While GEC continues to train hospital-based emergency providers, there remains a gap in pre-hospital care and barriers to patients reaching the hospital. Emergency care should ideally span a continuum from "out-of-hospital" care (at the scene of accidents and emergencies, en route to the hospital) and "in-hospital" care. Expanding GEC's training to address out-of-hospital emergency care will be a new phase in our programming, and it will fulfill the vision of Ugandan Ministry of Health.
This project builds on our previous work on improving in-hospital emergency care and aims to improve out-of-hospital emergency care to save lives. This pilot program will have ECPs serve in two week rotations on the ambulance service in Kampala, providing full time coverage for the ambulances with a focus on responding to the most critical cases. Given their extensive experience, the ECPs will give input into how the model functions to provide effective emergency care
1. Test and refine the MoH model of staffing ambulances with non-physician emergency care providers through a pilot program utilizing ECPs. to saving lives 2. Adapt GEC's current two-year ECP curriculum for Emergency Medical Techinician training.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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