PDM Podcast #2 - Developing a Lay First Responder Program in Chad... by WADEM

Peter Delaney and Canaan Hancock from LFR International - https://lfrinternational.org - discuss their recent article, "Developing a Lay First Responder Program in Chad: A 12-Month Follow-Up Evaluation of a Rural Prehospital Emergency Care Program" from Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. The full-text version of the article is available at the following link - https://bit.ly/1st-responder-chad. Below is a brief summary:

A lay first responder program was established in Chad to investigate the efficacy of a trauma curriculum for laypeople and if these lay first responders might then be able to provide effective prehospital care for the injured. The researchers found that participants demonstrated significant knowledge gain and effectively provided emergency prehospital trauma care for the injured. Following up one year later with participants, they reported sustained voluntary involvement as lay first responders due to additional social and financial benefits they experienced, sustaining the intervention.