(Montreal) Resuscitate, intubate, treat a wound caused by shrapnel, by a collapsed building… McGill University has put together in a few hours videos translated into Ukrainian to help all caregivers practice war medicine .
Posted at 4:24 p.m.
His colleagues face an “unimaginable scenario in 2022”, a “very complex”, “stressful” situation, tells AFP the Dr Tarek Razek, head of trauma at the McGill University Health Center.
And given the scale of the conflict, all staff, and not just emergency doctors and trauma surgeons, are called upon to take care of injured patients, he explains.
In partnership with the university’s Steinberg Simulation and Interactive Learning Center, Canadian doctors have therefore created videos of a few minutes to explain “the basics of first aid and resuscitation”.
“From the moment of the Ukrainian request to the creation, it took less than three hours, and the final product was delivered in less than 24 hours”, welcomes the Dr Gerald Fried, director of the center.
The videos, which were shot in Montreal, edited by a thoracic surgeon, Dr.r Junko Tokuno, and translated into Ukrainian.
“With technological advances, this is the first time that we can do things so quickly, and of such quality” for content, underlines the Dr Razek.
On Wednesday, 17 adults were injured in the Wednesday bombardment by the Russian army of a pediatric hospital in Mariupol in Ukraine.
The intensification of bombardments in recent days against several Ukrainian cities have triggered an avalanche of dead and wounded among the civilian population, trapped.
Since the start of the war, at least 474 civilians have been killed and 861 injured, according to the latest UN tally, which stresses that its tolls are probably much lower than the reality.