Bedside Ultrasound Training for Emergency Care

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) brings rapid, real-time diagnostic and procedural capabilities directly to the community, improving care in settings like primary care, home care, and remote areas by reducing diagnostic delays, guiding treatment, and supporting procedures, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes and decreasing the need for hospital transfers

Despite the welldocumented benefits of ultrasound, there are global disparities in its access. Patients in underresourced countries don’t access ultrasound services in critical time. Disparities persist in Uganda Like in many other developing countries, with rural communities less likely to access such services compared to people in urban settings. In order to bridge the disparities, Global Emergency Care (GEC) continues to carry out Capacity Building Trainings in point of care-Ultrasound Scan for both clinicians and other health personnel to boost the management of patients in rural health facilities of Uganda.

Impact testimonials from our trainees

My name is Joanita a trainee of POCUS with Global Emergency Care 2025. Am extremely happy to have been the beneficiary of this training, I can now perform basic ultrasound scans, such as checking for the baby’s heartbeat, locating the placenta, assessing the baby’s position, and observing the amniotic fluid. Before the training, we had to refer pregnant women to Masaka Town for radiology services whenever our radiographer was unavailable. Now, I can perform these essential checks myself when the radiographer - who is only a part-time staff member at our facility- is not on duty. This has significantly improved the speed of my clinical decision-making. I truly appreciate the training. Learning to carry out these basic yet critical spot checks has helped us prevent a lot of inconvenience for our pregnant mothers.

There are global disparities in the provision of maternal health care, with women from rural communities and underresourced countries expecting poorer access to healthcare services. This potentially compounds the existing higher burden of maternal and neonatal morbidity within these populations. In this setting, pointofcare ultrasound (PoCUS) has the potential to improve outcomes while mitigating challenges and barriers associated with the introduction of new medical technology.

Global Emergency Care (GEC) continues to carry out Capacity Building Trainings in Point of care-Ultrasound to boost the management of pregnant mothers in rural remote communities’ health facilities of Uganda.

As demonstrated by GEC Point of Care Ultrasound trainees Christine who wrote…

My name is Christine, “As a result of my Point of Care Ultrasound training with Global Emergency Care, my pregnant mothers are being managed better. If, for example, the baby is lying in a breech way, as a result of this training, l now know how to handle the mother better. I can now use the machine to check how the baby is lying as compared to before. Doing Bedside ultrasound myself surely improves and quickens the time my patient spends in the hospital, and we can work on her very fast, hence saving time”.