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Abstract
Objectives To design, develop, deliver and assess a training initiative on haemorrhage control for emergency medical services (EMS) staff in Ukraine, in an active wartime setting.
Design Using the Medical Research Council framework for complex interventions, a training programme was designed and developed in a collaboration between Irish and Ukrainian colleagues and delivered by experienced prehospital clinicians/educators. Feedback was gathered from participants.
Setting The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused large numbers of trauma patients with limited access to advanced prehospital emergency care. Ukrainian authorities requested support in delivering such care.
Participants Ukrainian EMS nominated clinical staff as trainees, in partnership with an educational institution in Kyiv.
Intervention One day provider and train-the-trainer courses were developed and delivered, focused on early delivery of tranexamic acid (TXA), using intraosseous access (IO) in victims of wartime trauma.
Outcome measures Safe organisation and delivery of courses, assessed knowledge and skills competence and self-reported satisfaction and pre/post confidence/competence.
Results Two provider and one train-the-trainer courses and four equipment supply exercises were delivered for 89 EMS staff (doctors, nurses, paramedics); none had prior experience of IO or prehospital delivery of TXA. All participants were assessed as competent as providers and/or trainers. High levels of satisfaction and significantly improved self-assessed confidence and competence were reported.
Conclusion Rapid design and delivery of a training programme focused on an identified need for advanced care of trauma patients in a wartime setting has been possible. Training and immediate access to appropriate equipment was demonstrated. Evidence of frequency of use and safe, effective interventions has not been collected; such data are important for evaluation but difficult to collect in this setting. A high level of demand for this training now exists.
- MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING
- Organisational development
- ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY MEDICINE
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Contributors GB and CF designed and developed the protocol, and all authors contributed to study implementation, data collection, analysis and interpretation of data. All authors confirm that they have contributed to the content of the paper and have approved the version of the paper submitted and agree to be accountable for resolution of any issues arising. GB acts as guarantor.
Funding Fundraising was entirely from philanthropic and charitable donations, in partnership with UCD’s registered charity, UCD Foundation.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.
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