Cali (Colombia), South America
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Research Projects
MEDITECH's research projects focus on strengthening trauma and emergency care in low- and middle-income settings. Our efforts include capacity building through teaching initiatives, guideline development, and clinical trials, in collaboration with local and international partners and funding agencies.
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Landmine injuries are still a cause of death and disability in countries were social conflicts are active.
Recently we have develop a training program for fisrt civilian responders in rural areas under landmine injuries risk...
The CRADES trial it is a clinical surgical trial, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health of North America.
The main objective is to operate early with a wide cranial decompression patients with severe TBI in austere environments...
The Colombian TBI guidelines project is sponsored by the Colombian institute of sciences and technology. The aim is to develop national evidence based guidelines to help medical practitioners in the acute care of head injury patients....
There are several prehospital care oriented projects, including training of first responders in rural villages with austere resources...
Rural Hospitals Telemed CME
The use on new technology and mobile connection devices is part of our projects with the aim of bring medical support to rural hospitals in the amazonian jungle...
Patient safety is fundamental regarding the available resources for care. We are actually involve in clinical research for safety improvement in critical surgical care in poor settings scenes...