Juan P Cóbar, Miranda Matzer, Isabella Santamarina, Amelia Levi, Sabrina Asturias, Carlos R Cordon, Lenworth Jacobs, Amir Ebadinejad, Jane J Keating
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Abstract
Objective: This project aimed to successfully implement the Stop the Bleed® (STB) program in Guatemala by targeting key providers in various communities across the country.
Setting: The course was conducted in rural community centers, fire stations, tertiary care centers, and medical school facilities.
Participants: We included agricultural occupational health workers, firefighters, medical providers, and medical students throughout the course.
Results: We successfully trained 247 people in Guatemala in STB and certified 13 instructors and four associate instructors. Through pre- and postcourse surveying, we determined that the course improved the participants' comfort level in managing bleeding emergencies.
Conclusions: Creating partnerships with key providers at different community levels leads to the successful implementation of public health initiatives. Further research should be geared at determining the course's dissemination by new instructors.
期刊介绍：
With the publication of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine, for the first time, comes real guidance in this new medical specialty from the country"s foremost experts in areas most physicians and medical professionals have never seen…a deadly cocktail of catastrophic events like blast wounds and post explosion injuries, biological weapons contamination and mass physical and psychological trauma that comes in the wake of natural disasters and disease outbreak. The journal has one goal: to provide physicians and medical professionals the essential informational tools they need as they seek to combine emergency medical and trauma skills with crisis management and new forms of triage.
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