Guideline for teaching advanced life support in the presence of mass casualty. Consensus for the project of training and research in life support. Cienfuegos, 2018

Foundation: in disaster situations, when the number of patients or injured is high and the resources are limited, medical care requires changes of structures and processes if it is aimed to save most of the persons involved. Health personnel should be trained to face this situation becoming more frequent each time. Objective: to update, for the project, the guidelines and strategies for teaching life support in the presence of mass casualty. Methods: national workshop developed in July 10th and 11th in Cienfuegos, with 13 experts and four key informers. The techniques of brain storming and nominal group, semi-structured and previous documentary review. Results: objectives, specific aspects, teaching strategy, contents, scope of the abilities, skills to develop, future research, and areas for inter-institutional collaboration were proposed for teaching life support in situations of disaster. Conclusion: academic proposals for the course “Life support in the presence of mass casualty¨ allow preparing health professionals to offer medical assistance in situations of disasters with limited resources in complex environments

Guideline for teaching pre-hospital life support. Consensus for the project of training and research in life support. Cienfuegos 2018

Foundation: In the pre hospital scenario mortality due to emergencies is high, mainly because episodes are produced before arriving to the health system. Health personnel should be trained for facing these emergencies in this context. The project for training and researching in life support in emergencies and disasters nay be an academic framework to achieve it.Objective: to update the Project, guidelines and teaching strategy for training life support before emergencies in pre hospital emergencies.Method: qualitative study which had as a starting point the development of a National Workshop with 8 experts and 6 key informers, on July 10th and 11th in Cienfuegos. Besides documentary review, there were applied the techniques of brainstorming, nominal group, semi structured questionnaire.Results: the elements proposed for teaching pre-hospital life support, in under graduate and postgraduate courses were the following: objectives, didactical elements, teaching strategy, content, scope, skills to be developed, future research and areas of inter institutional collaboration. It was defined that the structure of a course model for teaching the topic and the main considerations for its execution.Conclusion: academic proposals for life support contain basic elements for training health professionals and students to provide medical assistance at site and in institutions of firs level of health.</p

Guideline for teaching advanced life support in the presence of mass casualty. Consensus for the project of training and research in life support. Cienfuegos, 2018

Foundation: in disaster situations, when the number of patients or injured is high and the resources are limited, medical care requires changes of structures and processes if it is aimed to save most of the persons involved. Health personnel should be trained to face this situation becoming more frequent each time. Objective: to update, for the project, the guidelines and strategies for teaching life support in the presence of mass casualty. Methods: national workshop developed in July 10th and 11th in Cienfuegos, with 13 experts and four key informers. The techniques of brain storming and nominal group, semi-structured and previous documentary review. Results: objectives, specific aspects, teaching strategy, contents, scope of the abilities, skills to develop, future research, and areas for inter-institutional collaboration were proposed for teaching life support in situations of disaster. Conclusion: academic proposals for the course “Life support in the presence of mass casualty¨ allow preparing health professionals to offer medical assistance in situations of disasters with limited resources in complex environments