Department of Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Research Article
Empowering Healthcare through Education: Is the Primary Trauma Care Course Impactful in Sub-Saharan Africa?: A Literature Review
Author(s): Cherinet Osebo*, Jeremy Grushka, Dan Deckelbaum and Tarek Razek
Background: Injury-related mortality and morbidity contribute significantly to public health concerns. Insufficient resources, infrastructure and workforces, infancy trauma care system, and training programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) extended the injury burden, resulting in increased deaths. In such cases, the proposed solution is to provide a resource-friendly, highly impactful training approach. The Primary Trauma Care (PTC) course was developed to provide a reasonable replacement for local resources, given that Advanced Trauma Life Support training (ATLS) is unaffordable in resource-limited regions. This study focused on evaluating the PTC training impacts on SSA clinicians. Materials and Methods: We reviewed the literature by searching MEDLINE (Ovid interface), Embase (Ovid interface), and African journals online databases to identify relevant peer-reviewed articles. Studies wer.. View More»
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