Lead by Maytinee Lilaonitkul, the Anesthesia Division of Global Health Equity conducted its first annual Anesthesia in Resource-Constrained Settings (ARCS) Course for senior anesthesia residents at UCSF.
The course covers topics including:
- Simulation scenarios on practice with limited resources
- Drugs commonly encountered in resource-constrained settings
- Introduction to drawover vaporizers
- Resuscitation, transfusions and vascular access with limited resources
- Airway management and monitoring
- Troubleshooting gas supplies and oxygen concentrators
The course has been integrated into the core curriculum for all UCSF Anesthesia resident and and is part of a 3-year longitudinal global health curriculum for all anesthesia trainees.
Special thanks to the instructors:
Keri Kekkonen, Julia Cotteral, Eunice Choi, Mary Sturgeon, Gerald Dubowitz, Will Booth, Elliot Wollner, Tyler Law, Michael Lipnick, Maytinee Lilaonitkul.
