A model of prehospital trauma training for lay persons devised in Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Few low income countries have emergency medical services to provide prehospital medical care and transport to road traffic crash casualties. In Ghana most roadway casualties receive care and transport to the hospital from taxi, bus, or truck drivers. This study reports the methods used to devise a model for prehospital trauma training for commercial drivers in Ghana.

Methods

Over 300 commercial drivers attended a first aid and rescue course designed specifically for roadway trauma and geared to a low education level. The training programme has been evaluated twice at one and two year intervals by interviewing both trained and untrained drivers with regard to their experiences with injured persons. In conjunction with a review of prehospital care literature, lesson

SUBMITTER: Tiska MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1726295 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature