Emergency medicine and its development in Ethiopia with emphasis on the role of Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department.
Emergency medicine and its development in Ethiopia with emphasis on the role of Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department.
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埃塞俄比亚的急诊医学及其发展，重点介绍亚的斯亚贝巴大学医学院急诊医学系的作用。
作者：
A. Azazh;S. Teklu;Assefu Woldetsadi;N. Seyoum;Haimanot Geremew;Heidi Busse;G. Tefera;Ryan J. Wubben;P. Rankin;J. Tupesis;J. Maskalyk;M. Landes;E. Mehari;M. Derbew
介绍
全球急诊医学（EM）是一门年轻的学科，即使在发达国家，它也有大约50年的历史。在埃塞俄比亚，正规的院前护理或医院急诊科（艾德）的发展是最近的现象，本文介绍了埃塞俄比亚千年前后埃塞俄比亚急诊医学护理的发展。
方法
本文引用了来自不同政府和非政府数据源的与急诊医学发展和实施相关的文献。
结果
2006年6月，在阿迪斯阿贝巴大学（AAU）医学院（SOM）成立了急诊医学工作组（EMTF），该工作组与联邦卫生部（FMOH）和阿迪斯市理事会卫生局（AACCHB）密切合作。除主要行为者外，许多合作伙伴也为这一举措作出了重大贡献。其中一些发展是在Tikur Anbessa专科医院设立急诊科，以及由联邦卫生部改组急诊服务。急诊与门诊、住院一样，沿着成为医院服务的重要组成部分。此外，在阿迪斯开始了院前护理举措，并将其扩大到各地区，为10万人口的小区安排了一辆或两辆救护车。在人力资源开发方面也取得了重要成就，特别是建立了EM住院医师和EM和重症护理MSC。各地区卫生专业人员培训中心已开始实施院前护理人员培训方案，以培养急诊医学技术人员。此外，EM模块已被纳入当前的本科医学教育。成立了埃塞俄比亚急救专业人员协会，成员来自不同类别的急救医学专业人员。在所有这些发展中，AAU急诊科急诊医学培训中心在不同类别的人力资源培训中发挥了关键作用。
讨论和结论
最近在EM发展方面取得的成功是由于FMOH，AAU SOM和AACCHB与承诺的合作伙伴沿着的共同努力。因此，得出的结论是，当地在EM方面的持续努力和相关利益攸关方的支持导致了该国该领域的成功发展。
INTRODUCTION
Globally Emergency Medicine (EM) is young discipline and even in developed countries it is about five decades old. In Ethiopia formal pre-hospital care or hospital based Emergency department (ED) development is a recent phenomenon and this article describes development of Emergency Medicine care in Ethiopia before, around and after Ethiopia millennium.
METHODOLOGY
Documents related to emergency medicine development and implementation from different government and nongovernmental data sources are used as a resource for this article.
RESULTS
Emergency Medicine task force (EMTF) has been established in Addis Ababa University (AAU) school of Medicine (SOM) in June 2006 and the taskforce has closely worked with Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and Addis Ababa city council Health Bureau (AACCHB). In addition to the main actors many partners have contributed significantly to this initiative. Some of the developments were establishment of emergency departments in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH) and the restructuring of EM service by FMOH. Emergency care has been considered as a crucial service in hospitals' service along with outpatient and inpatient services. Furthermore, Pre-hospital care initiatives have been commenced in Addis Ababa and expanded to the regions with a arrangement of one or two ambulances to small districts having 100,000 population. There have also been key achievement in human resource development, notably the establishment of EM residency and MSC in EM and critical care nursing. Prehospital care givers training programs in order to produce emergency medicine technicians (EMT) have been started in various regional health professionals training centers. Furthermore, EM module has been included in the current undergraduate medical education. The Ethiopian society of emergency professionals (ESEP) has been established with members from different categories of emergency medicine professionals. In all these developments the emergency medicine training center in the emergency department of AAU has played key role in the training of human resources in different categories.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
The recent successes in EM development is due to concerted efforts of the FMOH, AAU SOM and AACCHB along with committed partners. Hence, it is concluded that consistent local efforts and relevant stakeholders support in EM has resulted in successful development of the field in the country.