Primary Trauma Care
12 August 2010
MAP and the Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTCF) are providing an Instructor Course Programme designed to empower local surgeons and anaesthetists in injury prevention strategies, as well as in the management of severe trauma at the district hospital level. Primary Trauma Care (PTC) is a system for training front-line staff in hospital trauma management, aimed at preventing death and disability in seriously injured patients. In November 2009, MAP and PTCF led a team consisting of three surgeons - including Sir Terence English, who performed Britain's first successful heart transplant - and two anaesthetists to undertake the PTC training programme and a following Instructors course. From this, more than forty doctors and nurses were trained and sixteen were appointed as Instructors to lead the development of PTC in Gaza.
