Educating Ukrainian Medical Personnel

In this episode of the Disaster Podcast we talk with nurse Alicia Bean who is preparing for a return trip with IDMC to Ukraine where she works educating medical personnel on trauma and other best practices. Interstate Disaster Medical Collaborative (IDMC) provides a forum for collaboration, cooperation and coordination of disaster medical experts, assets and systems. The teams are comprised of state and regional providers of mass gathering and disaster medical care.

Alicia is an emergency room nurse and has worked with trauma team coordination for emergency care. She made her first trip in the fall of 2022 to Ukraine as part of a nursing team. Their goal was to assess techniques and training levels for different types of basic care. This included BLS techniques like CPR education and stop the bleed programs and tourniquet use.

Also on the show were co-hosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis.

Thank you as always to Paragon Medical Education Group for their long-term support of the Disaster Podcast. Dr. Joe Holley and the team at Paragon continue to provide excellent and customized disaster response training to jurisdictions around the U.S. and internationally as well.