Our staff, trainers, and partners are always on the move at site visits, training courses, conferences, and the like. Keep up with our updates here!
We wanted to share a few photos from our trip this past November to Uganda, where we installed two new UAM’s and trained users on the machine. In partnership with GPAS (Global Partnership in Anesthesia and Surgery) and coordinated by Dr. Gerald Dubowitz, we visited two distinctly different hospitals– Soroti Regional Reference Hospital (a rural […]
Gradian has a new guest post that has been published on the Every Mother Counts blog (here). This non-profit organization was founded by maternal health advocate, Christy Turlington Burns, as way to increase awareness and education for maternal mortality reduction around the world. Through their powerful film, “No Women, No Cry,” and their work connecting women with all kinds […]
With so many fantastic blogs circulating on global health, there are not as many that specifically focus on safer global surgery. Here are some of our favorite “must-read” global surgery blogs: Global Health Innovation Blog – from Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health (@StanfordCIGH) Lifebox Blog – a wonderful blog focused on safe surgery (@safersurgery) TechSoup […]
Medical oxygen is essential to performing life-saving surgeries anywhere in the world. Unfortunately it is frequently in short-supply in many hospitals in low-income countries. This is perhaps not surprising: hospitals in the US and other wealthy countries manufacture their own pure oxygen and pipe it into ORs through the wall, while low-resourced hospitals for the most part […]
Our partners from the Johns Hopkins University Austere Anesthesia Health Outcome Research Group recently presented three posters on their work with Gradian’s UAM and medical devises in the developing world) at the International Assembly for Pediatric Anesthesia in Washington, D.C. on October 10-12. Poster Presentation: Designing Medical Devices for Austere Environments:The Role of Human Factors […]
Gradian had the fortune of installing the first UAM in Rwanda, the “Land of 1,000 hills” in October. The quick but productive tripintroduced us to some wonderful people doing wonderful work. Our first stop was to the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre (IPRC) in Kigali, where we presented the UAM to 37 students enrolled in the Engineering World Health program. Students in […]
The Universal Anaesthesia Machine has entered clinical use in four West African hospitals. From April 29 – May 4 the Gradian team traveled to Kumasi, Ghana, and Abuja, Nigeria, to train anaesthetists, nurse anaesthetists and biomedical engineers. Dr. Wiz Ashton, a consultant anaesthetist and UAM user at Poole Hospital in England, and Mr. Rob Dickinson, an internationally […]
Poster Presentation: Click here for Dr. De Beer’s Poster Presentation
Gradian’s symposium at the WCA “Austere Anaesthesia: Improving Safety in Challenging Environments” was successful and well-attended. We were honored to have our 5 speakers present on a variety of critical issues relating to improving anesthesia delivery and surgical/perioperative care in low-resource settings. For those of you who were unable to make it to the session, we have posted […]
The Universal Anaesthesia Machine was the subject of three presentations at the 15th WFSA World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Buenos Aires. Universal Anaesthesia Machine (UAM): An evaluation of a new anaesthesia workstation The Universal Anaesthesia Machine – experience in 2 large UK centres The Universal Anesthesia Machine: towards achieving MDG5 in Nepal
