Results from a World Health Organization pilot of the Basic Emergency Care Course in Sub Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frontline providers around the world deliver emergency care daily, often without prior dedicated training. In response to multiple country requests for open-access, basic emergency care training materials, the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM), undertook development of a course for health care providers-Basic Emergency Care: Approach to the acutely ill and injured (BEC). As part of course development, pilots were performed in Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Zambia to evaluate course feasibility and appropriateness. Here we describe participant and facilitator feedback and pre- and post-course exam performance.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Tenner AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853313 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature