The Management of Health Services of the Lanzarote Health Area, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, held last week the XV edition of the specialized course in Initial Care for the Adult Polytraumatized Patient, organized by specialists from the Intensive Care unit of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital.
The training brought together twenty healthcare professionals from hospital and pre-hospital emergencies, with the aim of improving the healthcare response to situations of high clinical complexity, such as traffic accidents, fires, or other types of accidents with severe trauma.
During four days, the participants combined theoretical sessions, taught by specialized instructors from various hospital services, with practices focused on initial evaluation, stabilization, and safe transfer of patients with severe trauma.
The course, which has the collaboration of the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium, contributes each year to the updating of action protocols and to the strengthening of the island's urgent and emergency care network, guaranteeing effective and safe healthcare. Since its launch, more than three hundred professionals from the Management have received training in this area.
The sessions concluded with a drill in which firefighters from the Security and Emergency Consortium of the island, Civil Protection personnel, and professionals from the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES 112) participated. On this occasion, a traffic accident with multiple victims was recreated, in which exercises of initial assessment, triage, rescue, immobilization, on-site assistance, and organization of patient transfer were carried out.
The person in charge and director of the course, the specialist in Intensive Medicine Montserrat Sisón, assures that “this training seeks care excellence in the attention to patients with severe trauma, where speed, coordination and team decision-making make the difference in survival”.