American emergency medicine specialists have passed on the best practices of modern emergency care to their Lviv colleagues.
A team from the Maimonides Medical Centre (New York, USA) arrived at the First Lviv Medical Association to share their experience in emergency medicine. They include Joshua Schiller, Director of Global Health Programmes, Jessica Poster, Deputy Head of the Psychiatric Department, and Emily Anks, Emergency Medicine Specialist. The collaboration took place in conjunction with Lviv National Medical University, which underscores its educational and clinical significance.
The programme included discussions of clinical cases and analysis of emergency conditions such as acute abdominal pain, psychological trauma, and acute respiratory conditions. American doctors shared algorithms for providing care, clinical approaches and the structure of emergency protocols that are widely used in the United States. According to Natalia Matolinets, “countries with developed emergency medical care systems share their protocols with us, which allows us to raise the standards of treatment in Ukraine.”
In addition to the lectures and trainings, the foreign guests inspected the medical equipment of Lviv’s St Panteleimon Hospital and the UNBROKEN rehabilitation centre. This visit allowed them to see the conditions in which Ukrainian soldiers are treated and rehabilitated, and the means of providing emergency medical services. Over the course of two days, an intensive exchange of practices took place, which will help modernise the national system of critical care.
Such visits are part of the ongoing process of integrating the Ukrainian medical system into the international medical community. Lviv doctors regularly learn from the experience of their colleagues from abroad, striving to achieve global standards of medical care.