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 [...]
The first Fundamental Critical Care Support course (FCCS) was held at the Iberoamerican Hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on February 1-2. Over sixty medical students, residents, attending physicians, and nurses from the Dominican Republic and Haiti attended the two day course. The course is designed to give basic critical care provider skills to non critical [...]
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