Global Health Outreach Course
In 2008, the Department of Anesthesia launched Global Outreach: Anesthesia in Challenging Environments, a training program that prepares anesthesiologists from Canada and the U.S. for global missions. This is the first course of its kind in North America and one of only three offered worldwide.
Global Outreach: Anesthesia in Challenging Environments
Global Outreach: Anesthesia in Challenging Environments is an annual course that focuses on novel techniques and equipment for delivering anesthesia care in underserviced environments – the conditions under which 80 per cent of the world’s anesthesia care is delivered.
With a mix of experiential and skill-based presentations, Global Outreach: Anesthesia in Challenging Environments tackles the questions of how to work with equipment designed for difficult environments and fix it when it breaks, and how to manage without reliable electricity or access to necessary medication. It also tackles larger questions of how to trust your gut, handle a crisis and know when to step back. It aims to better equip anesthesiologists to transfer their knowledge and build capacity when undertaking global missions.
GLOBAL OUTREACH 2012: Anesthesia in Challenging Environments
Course dates: May 19-22, 2012.
Course brochure available here.
Contact
Dr. Thomas Coonan
Global Outreach Course Director
tjcoonan@gmail.com
Megan Chipp
Education Coordinator
megan.chipp@cdha.nshealth.ca
Phone: 902.473.5428
