Annual Report 2014

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

course for free is a “luxury”. “For me it is very difficult to access courses like this due to the cost. I always wanted to take them”, says Lema with gratitude. Another of the participants, Karina Toscanini, works as a doctor practising in the rural areas of Merino and Morató in the Paysandú department. The doctor highlights the importance of being up-to-date on how to act when faced with a trauma prior to arrival at the emergency room. “Taking a PHTLS course is the best way of keeping up-to-date and reinforcing knowledge based on practice; and this is essential because the town is next to Route 90. We have had

accidents and I have already had to use the techni- ques”, stresses Toscanini. The course was run by PHTLS Uruguay instructors with international certification and registration in the USA. This form of assistance has been developed to improve care for people injured in different types of accidents and allows healthcare staff to identify and properly assess injuries, handle the affected patients and make the appropriate interventions in each situation.

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