In an effort to attain 1st world status in emergency medicine seven Dominican nurses and six Dominican doctors enthusiastically spent Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th November 2011 becoming certified Advanced Cardiac Life Support Providers.
American Heart Association (ACLS) instructor, Dr. Fitzroy Armour who led the instructor team on both days said, “If Dominica is to attain 1st world status and cater to tourists from 1st world nations, many of our health care providers and lay persons should be up to date with the knowledge and skills mandated for 1st world nations by the AHA ACLS and Basic life support courses”.
ICU Sister Aminde was an also an instructor for both days, while ICU Nurse Cornelia Abraham and Dr Rachel Andrews were fellow instructors for Saturday and Sunday respectively.
Dr. Armour acknowledges that While the instructor team have taught both the BLS and ACLS courses to over 400 candidates in preparation for employment in the USA, more and more local medical providers are seeing the need to keep up to breast with their 1st world colleagues.
Needed for allbusinesses, police, customs, tour guides….
Classes are scheduled by Nurse Cornelia Abraham.
We would love to do many more healthcare professionals and any other persons in positions where lives are placed in their care (police, tor guides, fire officers, teachers….etc)
why only six doctors and seven nurses?? I hope there is another “training” session as this should be maditory for ALL healthcare professionals to learn.
The problem with ACLS training is that it has protocols with what they consider more advanced drugs. Unfortunately, they don’t work. If you can’t get the person breathing without the extreme measures, chances are you won’t be reviving them.
i read an excerpt from one of the officials on the st lucia bus incident,i do not recall if she was police or some organization,but she said people need to learn some form of basic skills,like what is being taught to the health personals, she said thanks to the people helped to remove the bodies from the bus or sea water,but they did more harm than good,simply because they did not know things like CPR,so i was wondering if the general public can be invited to learn these skills,just in case we have a situation like what happened on st lucia.
Beyond the Frontiers of Medicine – PMH – Medicine on a Mission.
Great move!! I am worried though about things like ambulance response time in cases of emergency. this needs a massive shot in the arm
People such as the motor vehicle drivers also need to be educated about making way on the road for Emergency Vehicles. Some don’t know what it means to pull over to allow emergency vehicles to proceed accordingly.
YAWN!!! whats that?? more lip service??? okay ZZZZZZZZZZ