Join us for this interactive training session and advance your preparedness and clinical skills for emergency situations in resource limited areas. Led by Dr. Kristen Breslin at CNH.
Dr. Kristen Breslin is an attending in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National. She is a Global Health Faculty Mentor for pediatric residents. She volunteers in Roatan, Honduras and is able to facilitate resident rotations at this site. She has contributed her clinical and teaching expertise to Project Medi-Share in Haiti through GWU and can serve as a faculty contact for residents interested in this program. Dr. Breslin has a particular interest in addressing issues affecting delivery of care. She aims to improve access and timeliness of care provision in resource limited acute care pediatric settings. Specifically, she has trained medical providers both here and abroad using the WHO Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) curriculum.
Session Objectives:
- Describe the variations in triage seen in the developing world
- Organize children into priority categories in low-resource and tropical settings
- Manage emergency signs according to the World Health Organization ETAT guidelines
- Discuss current evidence on the impact of triage, patient flow, and emergency treatment on early and total hospital mortality rates
