24/07/2025
Ukraine a country at war. Facial injury mortality rate is 38 % . This calls for unstinting sharing of skills and repetitive intense training. Teaching it is the easy bit . Especially when you are sharing skills with 36 highly experienced, enthusiastic doctors, surgeons, physicians, dentists , nurses and combat medics over 3 highly intensive days .
The hard part is the logistics of getting you there , organising it and getting you safely back home . That’s the specialty of World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) an independent , apolitical charity providing emergency aid expertise across the globe in regions of greatest need .
They partnered with MM Rescue to organise the best 3 day training session that I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing.We were well supported also by the incredibly generous TSG Associates LLP Xtract Stretchers and Hypothermia prevention, management kits . Celox Tim Berrow Innovative Trauma Care Inc. (iTClamp) .
The challenging bit was how to do a hands on training session on open reduction and fixation of fractured facial bones . To construct this module our enormous thanks goes to Thomas S. Lee, MD, FACS founder of Facial reconstruction and trauma surgical atlas . Without his guidance provided by reconstructface.com we would have been unable to have such an interactive, useful module . Airway was covered using panel discussions , mechanical solutions with hands on applications. Surgical aspect was practiced in detail through hands on simulation led by Richard Mcgirr . Logistical coordination was ironed out by Luca Alfatti team was led by Mark Hannaford
