UPDATE 19 JUNE 2020
Dear Friends and Colleagues
We would like to invite you to a Webinar hosted by the Global Surgery Foundation and UNITAR focussing on COVID and solutions for oxygenation in low resource settings. The presentation will be led by Dr. Lionel Dumont, an anaesthesiologist from the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève and the NGO, 2nd Chance, who has extensive experience in Africa.
June 24th at 1500pm CET / 900am EST
The discussions will include Dr. Neema Kaseje, Paediatric Surgeon and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; and Dr. Olivier Hagon from the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève and head of the Medical Expert Group within the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit.
Please feel free to share with your network. We look forward to seeing you there.
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UPDATE 20 MAY 2020
Dear all
The COVID19 pandemic forces us to rethink the way we carry out our activities to support training in reconstructive surgery and anaesthesia. As we absolutely want to keep in touch with you, we offer you a series of webinars online.
Thursday, May 20, 5:00 p.m. – UTC-02 (CET)
Dr Lionel Dumont
Anaesthesiologist at The University Hospitals of Geneva and Medical Director of 2nd Chance
presented in English
COVID19 and Oxygenation
Are there solutions for hospitals with limited resources?
COVID19 & Oxygen final English
Lessons learned from experience in Switzerland, in medical literature and scientific research at the summit of Kilimanjaro.
Your Team 2nd Chance
UPDATE 20 APRIL 2020
Dear Colleague, dear fellows, dear friends,
During this COVID 19 sanitary crisis, 2ND Chance has established a partnership with a very dynamic group of French doctors performing every day a useful, comprehensive update and short analysis of the medical literature concerning all aspect and perspective of the COVID disease.
All information can be found at:
https://bibliovid.org/ .
For the time being the Site is only in French but will be soon translate in English. In any case, 95 % of the literature is in English and available on the platform.
The site provides freely a large amount of article in pdf file. This is a huge source of knowledge concerning the COVID in order to perform the best management of our patient based on evidence. You are invited to use it as much as possible, and please feel free to contact the webmaster (jrichoux@chu-grenoble.fr) if nay article can be specifically useful and relevant in the African context.
2nd CHANCE Team
UPDATE 14 APRIL 2020
Dear colleagues, dear friends,
Due to the current crisis, 2nd Chance decided to suspend all activities related to training of surgery and anesthesia. The entire world is now fighting the COVID 19 and we have very special thoughts for you all as many of you are working long days and nights in challenging environments and often with very limited resources.
We know that all of you are very dedicated to your profession and do not lose a chance to serve the humanity.
As an association of training in reconstructive surgery, we have only small experience of managing epidemic crisis. However, we have been now fighting the COVID for 3 weeks in Europe, and we have been acquiring precious experiences that we can share with you and especially with those who will be the front line in direct contact with patients.
With our background and our experience, we can offer to provide answers to any questions related to the management of patients with COVID 19 and in particular in relation to the personal protection of nurses and doctors who will be in contact with COVID patients. Indeed, we believe that all the precautions and personal protective equipment can be adapted and rethink for an environment with limited resources. We can help in that way.
Be sure that we are together to fight the COVID 19 and always ready to share experiences, advises, protocols and recommendations.
Take care of yourself! wash your hands carefully!
with virtual hugs!
2nd CHANCE team
