{"id":136550,"date":"2024-03-08T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=136550"},"modified":"2024-03-08T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:27:45","slug":"expeditionary-medical-units-honduras-mission-leads-to-stronger-medical-partnerships-and-enhanced-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=136550","title":{"rendered":"Expeditionary Medical Unit\u2019s Honduras Mission Leads to Stronger Medical Partnerships and Enhanced Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to U.S. Navy Capt. Jamie Fitch, the officer-in-charge for EMU 10 G-R16, her team cared for multiple trauma patients daily during the two-week medical mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking in a global health engagement environment has allowed my team to come together,\u201d said Fitch. \u201cThey\u2019ve gotten to know each other, learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses to some extent, and how to work through challenging circumstances together.\u201d<\/p>\n

While working in Hospital Nacional Mario Catarino Rivas, Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune assisted in the emergency room and the operating room, allowing many of them to work together for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sailors have seen around 30 to 40 patients,\u201d said Dr. Guillermo Saenz, a medical officer and foreign service national with Joint Task Force Bravo. \u201cDuring their time here, they\u2019ve gotten the chance to do many different procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GHE was a predecessor to potential upcoming missions, in which military medical personnel would maintain skillsets related to trauma care and prolonged care in resource limited environments.<\/p>\n

According to Fitch, her team observed pathology they may not normally see in America due to monetary limitations for injury care. Patients were brought in immediately after a traumatic injury or, sometimes, days or weeks later. These differences showed Sailors how trauma care results can vary depending upon the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this mission we brought our emergency room resuscitative team and our surgical team together to see and resuscitate critically injured patients,\u201d explained Fitch. \u201cWe worked through the full scope of trauma care, from the patient’s arrival to the hospital, through the operating room, and then on to an intensive care unit or a ward. Our expectation was that we would see patients, and we’d run them through the full gambit, partnering with the Hondurans, doing the full scope of care.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the GHE benefitted the expeditionary medical team in expanding their capabilities, the mission also built cooperation between the two nations, encouraging Honduras to continue its friendship with the U.S. Although the GHE is complete, officials hope for future benefits for the Honduran medical workers and their patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times these hospitals don’t have all the medications or supplies that they need. These types of activities greatly benefit the patients. If Sailors can come more often or try to have a semi-permanent presence, there would be a great benefit to both parties,\u201d concluded Saenz.<\/p>\n

The EMU consisted of health services and support personnel, and contains deployable medical materiel configured to provide flexible, modular, and scalable forward resuscitative care capabilities.<\/p>\n

Navy Medicine \u2014 represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals \u2014 provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the
warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to U.S. Navy Capt. Jamie Fitch, the officer-in-charge for EMU 10 G-R16, her team cared for multiple trauma patients daily during the two-week medical mission. \u201cWorking in a global health engagement environment has allowed my team to come together,\u201d said Fitch. \u201cThey\u2019ve gotten to know each other, learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":136552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136553,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136550\/revisions\/136553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}