Emergency and IRC, a school to teach Emergency Medicine in the world
EMERGENCY will collaborate with the scientific society Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC) to create a group of certified instructors able to teach, in EMERGENCY’s treatment centres all over the world, the most advanced methods of assisting patients in emergency-urgency conditions
IRC and EMERGENCY have signed an agreement that envisages the launch of the project in Afghanistan, Sudan, Uganda and Sierra Leone in the coming months
Teaching doctors, nurses and operators working in health-care complex contexts the most effective assistance certified by international guidelines for patients in emergency-urgency conditions: this is the aim of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by EMERGENCY and the Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC), a non-profit scientific society, accredited by the Ministry of Health, which brings together doctors, nurses and operators expert in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The agreement foresees that IRC will collaborate with EMERGENCY to create, within the association’s staff, a group of certified instructors capable of teaching professionals of EMERGENCY’s hospitals, health centres and outpatient clinics all over the world the optimal management of life-threatening patients in contexts related to neonatal and maternal emergencies, trauma and cardiac surgery.
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The training will be based on up-to-date protocols, based on the latest scientific evidence and defined by international scientific associations such as the European Resuscitation Council (ERC).
IRC will set up a specific training with advanced level courses, reserved for doctors and nurses, and ‘basic courses’ for other operators.
Thanks to this training, EMERGENCY’s instructors will be able to transfer the valuable knowledge they have acquired to their foreign colleagues who are engaged in missions abroad.
For this reason, the teaching methods and materials used by the IRC experts will be adapted from time to time to the different cultural and linguistic contexts.
The Memorandum of Understanding signed by EMERGENCY and IRC, which will last 3 years, will see the launch of the project in Afghanistan, Sudan, Uganda and Sierra Leone in the coming months
EMERGENCY’s team of experts formed by IRC will function as a “school” whose aim will be not only to disseminate advanced skills on emergency-medicine, but also to train new instructors who will in turn be able to transfer this knowledge to operators working in their country. IRC and EMERGENCY will work together on this project free of charge.
Roberto Maccaroni, Clinical Operations Manager at EMERGENCY:
“We are very happy with this collaboration because it perfectly adheres to the mandate we have given ourselves for our projects, inspired by gratuitousness and excellence.
We do medicine in our centres, and for medicine to be of high quality it needs continuous updating. We are convinced that training is a pillar of medicine and therefore it must be provided with internationally recognised contents and methods.
The collaboration between EMERGENCY and the IRC will enable the operators of our hospitals to increase their levels of competence in care and provide them with an internationally validated certification”.
Silvia Scelsi, President of the Italian Resuscitation Council:
“The project will make it possible to disseminate updated and certified training on emergency management in international and complex contexts such as those where EMERGENCY brings its precious help.
The challenge of adapting IRC teaching and teaching skills to the multicultural nature of the course recipients will lead to a professional and human enrichment of all the people involved in the initiative”.
The overall objective of the project is to guarantee certified training by a scientific society such as IRC and of a high standard to the staff working in EMERGENCY’s network, made up of both international staff, who provide their services, and doctors, nurses and operators from the countries where they are active.
This objective is in line with the general mission of EMERGENCY, which offers free and high quality care with hospitals, first aid stations, health centres, paediatric centres, maternity centres, centres of excellence and outpatient clinics that are currently present in eight countries.
Italian Resuscitation Council courses follow scientific evidence and international guidelines defined by international scientific societies such as the European Resuscitation Council of which IRC is a member.
Advanced training is provided for the management and care of particularly complex emergency situations, concerning both adult patients and infants and children.
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EMERGENCY already has a team of doctors and nurses who are experts in this field
The agreement with IRC therefore stems from the need to have these skills already present within the association certified by a third-party qualified body according to the most up-to-date international standards.
The memorandum of understanding also envisages that EMERGENCY’s professionals will receive more advanced training that will enable them to become instructors in the context of emergency-urgency medicine, thus being able to transfer this competence also to colleagues operating in non-European countries with different cultures and health systems.
IRC will set up a specific training so that EMERGENCY experts will become instructors able in turn to train other instructors in the emergency-urgency context.
In fact, the latter will be part of the EMERGENCY “school” that will be able to independently provide advanced level training courses, run by medical and nursing instructors, and “basic” courses, run by non-medical operators.
EMERGENCY will thus join the network of training centres accredited and certified by IRC for training in this field
This implies that IRC will continue to update EMERGENCY’s trainers throughout the duration of the memorandum of understanding on scientific news and international guidelines.
EMERGENCY NGO Onlus is an international organisation set up in Italy in 1994 to provide medical and surgical treatment to the victims of wars, landmines and poverty and, at the same time, to promote a culture of peace, solidarity and respect for human rights.
Between 1994 and 2021 more than 12 million people were treated free of charge in all EMERGENCY’s health facilities.
IRC (Italian Resuscitation Council)- Italian Group for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, was founded in October 1994 with the primary aim of spreading the culture and organisation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Italy
The Association involves doctors from different disciplines and nurses actively engaged in the field of cardiopulmonary resuscitation within and outside the hospital.
The IRC’s activity is integrated with that of similar Italian and foreign associations and in particular with that of the EuropeanResuscitationCouncil.ItalianResuscitationCouncil, on average, organises 10,000 BLSD (Basic Life Support/Defibrillation) courses every year, training over 120,000 people. Since 2019 it has been on the list of scientific societies accredited by the Ministry of Health.
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