CARE
Hospital Central de Maputo houses the only Anesthesia training program for the nation and is also responsible for training mid-level anesthesia technicians. Unfortunately, the hospital faces shortages of professionals, equipment, and eupplies to adequately teach and provide state of the art care for patients.
We’re beginning a collaborative process with Stony Brook’s Department of Anesthesiology to support improved care in the ICU and PACU. Together, with Mozambican leadership, we’ll build out the systems to support the training of new residents and provide mentorship to junior specialists. We aim to work with operating room staff to improve patient monitoring during surgery and in the immediate post-operative period.
Securing Needed Equipment
The anesthesia department is collaborating with the engineering department at Stony Brook to create a low-cost capnography monitor to improve patient monitoring in Mozambique.
We are donating:
- Intubation equipment
- Point of care ultrasound machines
- Point of care hemoglobin machines
- Essential consumable supplies for invasive monitoring
EDUCATION
We are hosting a bilateral exchange program for residents in Anesthesia.
Mozambican residents are given the opportunity to train in the U.S. When they visit Stony Brook they earn new clinical skills that will lead to improved quality of care, better health outcomes and the possibility of making an impact in Mozambique.
U.S. residents, in turn, have the chance to train in Mozambique where they encounter new opportunities for learning while gaining an understanding of health disparities in under-resourced settings. In addition, Stony Brook Faculty and Fellows visit to provide on the ground short courses and training in specialized skills.
These exchanges are crucial to realizing our goals; expanding mutual horizons while delivering better health outcomes is at the very heart of global health.
RESEARCH
A Modified Massive Transfusion protocol
An operational pilot research project to evaluate the impact of implementing a modified massive transfusion protocol to decrease maternal morbidity and mortality
