| Emergency Life Care (ELC) Sri
Lanka was the brain child of the Professors Chula Goonasekera (Sri Lanka) and
Shane Curran (Australia) whom together had several trial runs of the program
over the years in Sri Lanka before officially conducting the event. The first
program was held in the southern city of Galle where the skills lab of the
Emergency and Trauma unit of the Teaching Hospital Karapitiya was used for the
event in 2011.
The fully fledged Australian team
of instructors arrived in August 2012 for two courses in the hill capital Kandy.
Each Course had 24
participants and the program had a course dinner where instructors and participants
exchanged views, suggestions and feedback which was very important for the
course to improve. The program ended with a symposium in Colombo before the
team left to Australia.
The ELC Sri Lanka is getting
popular very fast with more recognition and demand for more courses. The skills
training had a tremendous impact on patient care where the Emergency Unit doctors who
were trained in ELC programs were working. It is heartening to see some doctors
trained in ELC Sri Lanka had implemented the “BLUE Print”, the basic management
plan of emergencies, by training their colleagues and support staff of what
they have acquired so the unit runs as one team. Considered
as one of the highlights in the SSCCEM calendar every year, the ELC Sri Lanka
program has seen the largest number of requests to participate in a
workshop by SSCCEM. ELC Sri Lanka hosted a new group of Emergency Physicians from USA in 2014. SSCCEM takes this opportunity to thank Prof Shane Curran and his energetic team of
Australian Instructors for the continuous unconditional and kind contribution to the
Emergency Medicine training in Sri Lanka.
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