Save Lives with Emergency Care in Uganda

GEC has been teaching the use of point-of-care ultrasound to ECPs since 2009. In the low-resource emergency departments of Uganda, bedside ultrasound is the most important diagnostic tool available to emergency practitioners. ECPs heavily utilize this critical technology to diagnose traumatic injuries, ectopic pregnancies, pericardial effusions, pneumonia, and a whole host of other emergent conditions. Ultrasound helps ECPs be effective frontline emergency providers and save lives. The technology, itself, is critical for emergency care because it allows ECPs to make emergent Diagnoses, preform safe procedures, and train the next generation of emergency practitioners in Uganda. It is one of their favorite scans to do.

GEC in collaboration with Masaka Regional Referral Hospital launched a skiill sessions a training program for intern Doctors at the farcility  in Bedside-ultrasound scan. In the passed two weeks so far, 24 intern doctors have been trainned out of 40 interns to be trained. This highlights what an incredible resource Ultrasound is for Emergency Practitioners. It is amazing how much they have learned from their training and how well they apply it to patient care to save lives.