The Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course has been very popular in India for quite some time. Just recently the Fundamental Disaster Management (FDM) course was launched in Mumbai, India, and this week, during the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) meeting, a second course was held. In addition to intensivists and members of the ICU [...]
Before we head back home tomorrow to normalcy and cold weather, I just wanted to share a few last thoughts with all of you who have been reading our blogs faithfully. This has been a learning experience for us in every sense of the word – we were able to see disaster victims first-hand and [...]
As our mission winds down, our chances to do hands on patient care dwindle. A few days ago, it appeared that we had a real chance to do patient care while setting up an intermediate unit at the Haitian border funded in part by Pan American Health Organziation and faciliated by Dominican Health Ministry. A place to receive, stabilize [...]
In touring hospitals in Santo Domingo, the effects of the disaster in Haiti are apparent. Elective surgeries have been canceled, the attention of intensivists has been diverted to the care of patients coming in from Haiti. Details of the impact on the Dominican citizens and hospital staff has been underappreciated; but it is apparent that [...]
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