Pediatric Simulation Courses
June 2010, Hannover, Germany
Call for application for Young Investigator Scholarship
Funding agency: Chinese Council of Sciences and Technology
Mission: To establish scholar exchange, and promote excellent foreign young investigators to conduct BASIC research in Chinese academic institutes.
Criteria: Non-Chinese citizen, PhD, Age < 35 yr with post-doc training experience in the research fields of Critical Care, Respiratory, Laboratory Medicine and Immunology.
Funding details: Operating fund ¥100,000 (Chinese yen)/6 months or ¥200,000/12 months; accommodation and living expenses will be provided by hosting institutes.
Application deadline: May 20, 2009
Notice of decision: September, 2009
Contact: Dr. Haibo Zhang, zhangh@smh.toronto.on.ca
Dr A slutsky, slutskya@smh.toronto.on.ca
Invitation to participate in the International Nutrition Therapy Study
Invitation to participate in the multi-national SAFE EPIC study
March 23, 2009
Critical Illness Sepsis-induced Immune Suppression Reversal Trial
Therapeutic Persistence (TP) during Disaster Relief Missions: Scenarios
Children, women and the elderly are the most vulnerable populations in the event of a natural disaster. When empathic, ethical, sociological and demographical arguments are filtered out, there is no "economic" reason to give children an intensive care treatment during large disasters. Children can and will not contribute in the immediate rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country; instead the medical treatment will cost a lot of money and efforts that otherwise can be spend to rebuild the nation. There are no solid arguments to motivate the instauration of pediatric intensive care facilities in large disaster areas. But recent (Asian Tsunami 2004) retrospective studies show that men (fathers and husbands), families and even entire communities suffer shorter periods from traumatic stress disorders when their children and women could be saved. When they suffer shorter periods of anxiety, psychosis, panic attacks and lethargy, they will mobilize and assist the Western rehabilitation teams sooner. A local population that gets involved sooner in rehabilitation could perhaps lead to sooner withdrawal of foreign and highly expensive support.
This study looks for arguments among professionals interested in the matter of pediatric medical assistance during natural disasters. Especially “what” do we define as pediatric critical care in disaster settings, “how far” would we go and for “how long”. For that purpose 21 scenarios have been edited, describing a disaster scene where “you” are involved in disaster medical assistance. We are not looking for answers on the medical treatment, we are looking for your attitude towards the proposed treatment and especially the consequences of the treatment per scenario. For that purpose you are asked to fill in a score.
As in real time situations we ask you not to think and overthink each scenario. Respond spontaneously. Imagine that you are far away from home, communication with home is scarce, you are tired, you feel dirty and you have seen a lot. You are with people you barely know and with them you have to discuss what to do and how far to go. Again: respond spontaneously. In that way it should not take you more than 20-30 minutes to fill in the scores. In the meantime you learn on natural disasters that actually happened (and always can strike again) or that are expected to happen within ? years.
If the number of respondents is large enough to perform statistical analysis, we can report on this inquiry. As there is little research on disaster assistance, this study could report on “how far, how long” we believe we have to go with kids in disaster areas. Consequently these attitudes can be compared with the content of a generic health kit: can you go “that far, that long” with what the WHO provides during a disaster? Finally: from the first data we already collected, we observe different “profiles” among the respondents. This prematurely suggests that scenarios perhaps could help in “profiling” the candidates of a disaster medical assistance team. Matching profiles in remote areas are probably in the best interest of both the patients and the disaster medical assistance team.
Dirk Danschutter, MSc (Nursing), CCP, CCNS
WFPICCS Sister PICU program – Singapore and Cambodia
January 3, 2008
Collaboration in Developing Neonatal Care – Report from the 5th World Congress Geneva
December, 17, 2007
WFPICCS Sister PICU Program
December 10, 2007
Pain Management in Neonates: Investing in the future
January 24, 2008, Bern, Switzerland.
Acute viral myocarditis guidelines published in PCCM
NOW AVAILABLE!
Critical care guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute viral myocarditis in children
The PICU fellowship program in Singapore
International Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Programmes for Physicians, Nurses, and Allied Health Professionals provided by WFPICCS Colleagues