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POSTERS / ICELAND 2002: EMERGENCY MEDICINE BETWEEN CONTINENTS
P 13 - International EM systems
International cooperation of development ICU and emergency
medicine services in Duzce, Turkey
Benin-Goren O', Lev A**
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv*, GICU and PICU, HaEmek Medical
Center, Afula**, Israel
The General ICU and the Center for Resuscitation and Emergency
Medicine Education cooperated and established together programs
to develop intensive care and emergency medicine systems in
Duzce, Turkey. Duzce is one of the cities that was almost destroyed
in the earthquake of 2000. The ICU was built by the Department
for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Israel. An Israeli Company shipped all the materials and medical
equipment such as monitors and ventilators from Israel. The Israeli
team included senior physicians, senior nurses, a paramedic and
medical engineer. The team gave ‘twas, two weeks of comprehen-
sive lectures to physicians and nurses from Duzce as well as bedside
teaching in the ICU. The team actually worked in the new ICU in
order to help the local team to adjust and function in the ICU. In
order to develop cooperation between the hospital and prehospital
personnel and to promote EMS, the Israeli team gave another
program with EM topics and simulations. This paper presents the
development of an ICU and EMS. It is focuses on the specific needs
of the local ICU and team, as well as on the cooperation between
the Israeli and the Duzce’s teams that started a new relationship
between those two countries.
P 14 - International EM systems
International cooperation for EMS development
Benin-Goren O', Lev A**, Halpern P*
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv*, GICU and PICU, HaEmek Medical
Center, Afula**, Israel
The Center for Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine (CREME) at
the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (TASMC) was established in
order to provide different levels of resuscitation and emergency
medicine education to medical professionals as well as to non-
medical persons.
The goal of CREME is to expand the knowledge of and to
educate physicians, nurses, paramedics and policy-makers in EM
and Emergency Medicine Services (EMS), including pre-hospital
services. Another important goal is to promote the emergency
medicine specialty in underdeveloped countries.
The programs are focused on mass casualty incidents, trauma
treatment in the field and inside the hospitals, Basic Life Support
(BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS), treatment of critical patients, organization of
HMS and finally building and setting the infrastructure of different
mtensive care units.
Since the late 90’s, CREME, under the auspices of the Israel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been involved with medical
support teams, who have been sent to various disaster areas. The
teams have been also involved in the development and operation of
intensive care units and EMS in Ethiopia, Azarbijan, Uzbekistan,
Dkraine, India, Democratic Republic of Congo and Turkey.
The instructors of CREME are all senior physicians, nurses and
paramedics, leaders in their fields. They are all enthusiastic to pro-
mote EM and ICU education and involved in academic programs
in all medical and nursing fields.
The paper presents the EMS status as well as the cooperation
between CREME and local authorities to provide EMS develop-
ment.
P 15 - International EM systems
Emergency Medicine Development in 3th World Countries
Benin-Goren O*, Lev A**, Halpern P*
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv*, GICU and PICU, HaEmek Medical
Center, Afula**, Israel
Emergency Medicine (EM) in Israel is a new profession. Neverthe-
less, the experience and knowledge of emergency medicine in Israel
is wanted elsewhere. Therefore, Israeli specialists are contributing
to many developing countries in the establishment of Emergency
Medicine Services.
CREME was established on 10/2000 in order to provide diffe-
rent levels of resuscitation and emergency medicine education to
medical professionals as well as to non-medical persons.
The goal of CREME is to expand the knowledge and educate
physicians, nurses, paramedics and policy-makers in EM and
Emergency Medicine Services (EMS) including pre-hospital
services. Another important goal is to promote the emergency
medicine specialty in underdeveloped countries.
The programs are focused on mass casualty incidents, trauma
treatment in the field and inside the hospitals, Basic Life Support
(BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS), treatment of critical patients, organization of
EMS and finally building and setting the infrastructure of different
Intensive Care Units.
Since the late 90’s, CREME, under the auspices of the Israel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been involved with medical
support teams, who have been sent to various disaster areas. The
teams have been also involved in the development and operation of
intensive care units and EMS in Ethiopia, Azarbijan, Uzbekistan,
Ukraine, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Turkey.
This paper presents the situation for emergency medicine servi-
ces, as well as medical services, in all these countries. It is also
focused on the cooperation between the Israeli and local teams, the
specific needs of every country and future programs to continue
and contribute to creating an international cooperation in emer-
gency medicine.
P 16 - International EM systems
Rallye Rejviz - EMS quality improvement tool
Stana J
Emergency Medical Service, Czech Republic
Competitions in professional skills have become very popular and
serve as an important Quality Improvement Tool (QIT) for military
forces, fire brigades and police in many countries. The Rallye
Rejviz (RR) is a professional exercise and competition for EMS
teams. Following the inaugural Rallye Rejviz in 1997, the concept
of testing emergency medical, driving and management skills in a
playful, yet competitive, but foremost a real-life setting, has met
with increasing enthusiasm, both nationally as well as internatio-
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