[*Note from HIFA moderator (NPW): Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/essential-emergency-and-critical-care-t... Note that Tim Baker is a speaker at the upcoming webinar on 11 September]
Hi HIFA,
Most critically ill patients aren’t in ICUs.
They’re on general wards — often unnoticed and without timely oxygen, iv fluids or other critical treatments. And too many die as a result.
After 20 years working in critical care, I’ve seen this again and again — in Sweden, in Malawi, in Tanzania, and throughout the world. The problem is not a lack of specialist care. It’s a lack of the basics.
That’s why Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) has been started and the organisation EECC Global has been set up www.eeccglobal.org . The vision is clear: no one should die of a cause that EECC could prevent.
Evidence about the need for EECC is growing. Modelling suggests that EECC could save up to 1 million lives every year. It’s low-cost, feasible in any hospital, and proven to work.
Now is the time to make EECC a global standard.
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Yours
Tim
HIFA profile: Tim Baker is a physician and associate professor in global critical care. He is a member of faculty at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and has positions at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and QMUL and LSHTM in the UK. Tim’s interest is in evaluating and improving health services and health systems for the provision of good quality care to critically ill patients. tim.baker AT ki.se