Comments on: Situation, target, plan… http://www.sccmblogs.org/situation-target-plan Critical Care Blogs Mon, 07 May 2012 22:32:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Randy Wax http://www.sccmblogs.org/situation-target-plan/comment-page-1#comment-24 Randy Wax Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:34 +0000 http://www.sccmblogs.org/?p=153#comment-24 Dr. Pierre, this is a great success story. Congratulations on your great work. Please keep in touch with our team, there will be great need for FCCS/PFCCS/FDM in helping to build critical care infrastructure in Haiti and the DR. We hope that you can help us establish PFCCS there. You may have seen the announcement by e-mail blast about establishing fundraising efforts to support the SCCM courses in Haiti and the DR. I think the education efforts are so important, eventually the international aid will fade and Haiti will need help to regain independent medical infrastructure. Dr. Pierre, this is a great success story. Congratulations on your great work. Please keep in touch with our team, there will be great need for FCCS/PFCCS/FDM in helping to build critical care infrastructure in Haiti and the DR. We hope that you can help us establish PFCCS there. You may have seen the announcement by e-mail blast about establishing fundraising efforts to support the SCCM courses in Haiti and the DR. I think the education efforts are so important, eventually the international aid will fade and Haiti will need help to regain independent medical infrastructure.

]]> By: Louisdon Pierre MD FAAP http://www.sccmblogs.org/situation-target-plan/comment-page-1#comment-21 Louisdon Pierre MD FAAP Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:54:07 +0000 http://www.sccmblogs.org/?p=153#comment-21 I am a Haitian born pediatric intensivist practicing in Brooklyn NY (SCCM member). We left New York for Haiti on January 14. Our team arrived at Carrefour Diquini Hospital on Friday January 15 and began performing surgery almost immediately in a makeshift tent set up as the operating room. The team had 3 general surgeons one pediatric nurse a pediatric intensivist and one internist. We were able to quickly penetrate the barriers to the island because of a 10 year history of medical missions to Milot. (www.OMATmission.org). We crossed the border in the north then made our first stop at Hopital Sacre coeur. There was no communication with Port-au-Prince at that time so we personally delivered a memo to the American embassy in the hope that patients would be airlifted to Milot. We are greatly pleased to know that hundreds of patients are able to be cared for in this manner. In fact, 140 patients had already been airlifted by January 20. The Hospital at Diquini was fully operational however, entry into the facility only began the following Monday. With expertise in deep sedation I facilitated many amputations and fasciotomies and debridements. during the first two days we worked in extreme conditions until more supplies made its way from the airport. It is said that this was perhaps on of the first hospital that began performing life saving surgeries. This is a well run institution within the network of the Adventist Health International, also affiliated with the Loma Linda University. I think that this is a great setting for implementation of a FCCS and PFCCS course and I am hoping to help set-up a PICU on this university campus where I was raised. We are planning a second trip to Diquini in March and later in June in the heart of Carrefour, close to the epicenter of this shocking earthquake. I am a Haitian born pediatric intensivist practicing in Brooklyn NY (SCCM member). We left New York for Haiti on January 14. Our team arrived at Carrefour Diquini Hospital on Friday January 15 and began performing surgery almost immediately in a makeshift tent set up as the operating room. The team had 3 general surgeons one pediatric nurse a pediatric intensivist and one internist. We were able to quickly penetrate the barriers to the island because of a 10 year history of medical missions to Milot. (www.OMATmission.org). We crossed the border in the north then made our first stop at Hopital Sacre coeur. There was no communication with Port-au-Prince at that time so we personally delivered a memo to the American embassy in the hope that patients would be airlifted to Milot. We are greatly pleased to know that hundreds of patients are able to be cared for in this manner. In fact, 140 patients had already been airlifted by January 20.

The Hospital at Diquini was fully operational however, entry into the facility only began the following Monday. With expertise in deep sedation I facilitated many amputations and fasciotomies and debridements. during the first two days we worked in extreme conditions until more supplies made its way from the airport. It is said that this was perhaps on of the first hospital that began performing life saving surgeries. This is a well run institution within the network of the Adventist Health International, also affiliated with the Loma Linda University. I think that this is a great setting for implementation of a FCCS and PFCCS course and I am hoping to help set-up a PICU on this university campus where I was raised. We are planning a second trip to Diquini in March and later in June in the heart of Carrefour, close to the epicenter of this shocking earthquake.

]]> By: Richard Reed MD FACS FS http://www.sccmblogs.org/situation-target-plan/comment-page-1#comment-15 Richard Reed MD FACS FS Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:37:25 +0000 http://www.sccmblogs.org/?p=153#comment-15 Great job! Wish I was with you Watch your 6 Great job!
Wish I was with you
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]]> By: MJ Reed http://www.sccmblogs.org/situation-target-plan/comment-page-1#comment-14 MJ Reed Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:29:56 +0000 http://www.sccmblogs.org/?p=153#comment-14 At all levels during our time here, we heard about the excellent care at Hopital Sacre Coeur. The information is operational details but unfortunately not details of personnel. Your efforts there are impressive to do such wonderful care under extreme conditions. We will pass your personal infomation to the team here in DR working PAHO and the government as knowing who the dedicated volunteers are is important. I encourage all SCCM to use this blog to tell of your experiences as many return. This way we all learn and we know who you are. Thank you for your dedication. At all levels during our time here, we heard about the excellent care at Hopital Sacre Coeur. The information is operational details but unfortunately not details of personnel. Your efforts there are impressive to do such wonderful care under extreme conditions. We will pass your personal infomation to the team here in DR working PAHO and the government as knowing who the dedicated volunteers are is important. I encourage all SCCM to use this blog to tell of your experiences as many return. This way we all learn and we know who you are. Thank you for your dedication.

]]> By: H. Stephen Fletcher, M.D. http://www.sccmblogs.org/situation-target-plan/comment-page-1#comment-13 H. Stephen Fletcher, M.D. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:02:40 +0000 http://www.sccmblogs.org/?p=153#comment-13 SCCM members are also involved with other specialists including general surgeons, orthopedists and nurses with Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti approximately 70 miles north of Port au Prince. I just returned from a week at the hospital. In 2 days last week from Monday to Wednesday we expanded the hospital from 2 operating rooms with 70 beds to 4 operating rooms and 300 beds. It is fully staffed and functioning well. We are in the network with the Navy and CoastGuard as is the Comfort, aircraft carriers Vinson and Bush and other Navy and Coast Guard Ships. We receive a dozen or so helicopters per day with 40 + patients. For further info you can contact Peter Kelly, M.D. at LPPJS@aol.com or http://CRUDEM.org SCCM members are also involved with other specialists including general surgeons, orthopedists and nurses with Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti approximately 70 miles north of Port au Prince. I just returned from a week at the hospital. In 2 days last week from Monday to Wednesday we expanded the hospital from 2 operating rooms with 70 beds to 4 operating rooms and 300 beds. It is fully staffed and functioning well. We are in the network with the Navy and CoastGuard as is the Comfort, aircraft carriers Vinson and Bush and other Navy and Coast Guard Ships. We receive a dozen or so helicopters per day with 40 + patients. For further info you can contact Peter Kelly, M.D. at LPPJS@aol.com or http://CRUDEM.org

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