拯救儿童的生命
为孩子站立
现在，6.3 million children under the age of 5 die each year. 4 million of those deaths occur in limited resource countries like Africa and Southeast Asia and are often the result of acute illnesses like pneumonia, severe diarrhea and sepsis -- which could be prevented or treated with access to simple, 负担得起的干预措施.
50多年来，美国心脏协会创造了质量, science-based lifesaving cardiovascular care training programs. 我们从这个经验中知道，增加基本, 然而,至关重要的, life support knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, 可以挽救更多的生命.
美国心脏协会儿科培训项目， Pediatric Emergency Assessment 复苏 and Stabilization (PEARS®) teaches healthcare providers how to recognize respiratory distress, 休克和心脏骤停, and provide appropriate lifesaving interventions within the initial minutes of care for seriously ill or injured infants and children.
By localizing the PEARS program to the needs of limited resource areas, we can make it relevant to the experience of front-line community healthcare workers, helping them apply that same proven science using available resources.
拯救儿童的生命附加信息
概述
In 2013, pediatric emergency and critical care colleagues at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 帮助婴儿呼吸的核心领导者, and AHA began the first Saving Children’s Lives programs in Africa. 利用AHA梨培训计划, a “train-the-trainer” approach to create new instructors and with input from local Ministries of Health, Saving Children’s Lives is helping to create a sustainable pediatric training program for community health workers and healthcare providers in 博茨瓦纳 and Tanzania.
The target learners are providers who evaluate acutely ill children in community clinics, 事故、急诊和住院病房. 这个为期两天的培训项目的目的是, which includes interactive lectures and hands on skills training, 是由医疗服务提供者识别急性患儿吗, initiate stabilizing treatment and refer to a hospital.
项目模型
Our program development model is built on four pillars:
- 听. We assess the challenges of treating children within an environment including health care worker capability, 可用的设备和用品, 现有的治疗方案. This allows us to contextualize the training for maximum impact.
- 火车. Utilizing AHA programs like PEARS we implement a tailored training experience with pre and post testing to ensure we document trainee progress.
- 观察. We stay connected to our trainees to learn how they use their new skills to help us continually refine and focus our training programs on areas of need.
- 规模. Once we have refined our training processes we implement a “train the trainer” approach to develop scalable training solutions with local instructors and ownership and sustainability. We look to develop national training strategies that help the program grow.
结果
自2013年以来:
- 206 doctors and nurses have received PEARS provider training
- 20 instructors have been trained to help continue quality training in the region.
sci印度
In December, 2014 we held a Saving Children’s Lives demonstration class in Baroda, Gujarat, India. 在开课之前, AHA volunteers and staff visited the Gujarat Chief Minister to discuss the program and obtain governmental support.
Recent fundraising has provided the ability to hold training in this part India for at one year. 拯救儿童生命印度指导小组, 由4-5名教官组成, will be leading subsequent courses contextualized for Gujarat.
展望未来
The 美国心脏协会 works to provide science and training programs to help save the lives of more children around the world. Our goal with Saving Children’s Lives is to create a sustainable program of pediatric lifesaving training for providers who evaluate acutely ill children in community clinics, 事故、急诊和住院病房 in India, 博茨瓦纳, 坦桑尼亚和其他地方. We hope to build on the current Saving Children’s Lives programs to other areas and impact the lives of more children around the world.
