About The Event
A collaboration between the ASE Foundation, the Philippine Society of Echocardiography (PSE), the Philippine Heart Association Bicol Chapter (PHA), and the U.S. Navy’s 2016 Pacific Partnership brought together a diverse team of clinicians for an education and training seminar in early July 2016. Our team met at the Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital (BRTTH) in Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines for two days of didactic lectures, hands-on training of echo techniques, and assessment of patients to identify congenital and rheumatic heart disease. Our aim was to work together and learn from each other’s experience while providing education and training in an underserved area of the world.
Highlights
Patient Care
Most of the patients our team scanned had rheumatic heart disease (RHD), and some had congenital heart disease as well. All of the patients left the BRTTH with a paper copy of their echo report and are being followed by a cardiologist to coordinate any needed treatment. A teenager with a ruptured aortic sinus of Valsalva aneurysm was sent to Manila for surgery. Multiple patients with severe valvular problems from RHD are being evaluated for surgery. Two patients with patent ductus arteriosus are having catheter-based closure procedures.
USNS Mercy and the Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is one of the largest floating hospitals in the world. A converted San Clemente-class supertanker, the Mercy holds 12 fully-equipped operating rooms, a 1,000-bed hospital facility, full blood and pathology suites, a radiology department, dental suite, ophthalmology capability, and four intensive care units including an isolation unit. The Pacific Partnership is an annual humanitarian aid and disaster response-preparation program in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
Participants & Collaborators
This collabrative event included team members from ASE, the Philippine Society of Echoardiography, the Pilippine Heart Association, and the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Partnership. A special acknoledgement to those who helped facilitate the U.S. Navy’s involvement; CDR Miguel S. Gutierrez, MD,LCDR Dean Kang, PharmD, MHA, CAPT Tony Han, MD, LCDR Margrette M. Moore, MD, CAPT Keshav Nayak, MD, CAPT Peter F. Roberts, MD, CDR Steven C. Romero, MD, FASE, CDR Dylan E. Wessman, MD.
And thank you to out industry partners, BioSolutions (GE Healthcare), RG Meditron Inc. (Hitachi-Aloka), HealthSolutions Inc. (SIEMENS), and Respicare Ent. (Mindray) for providing the ultrasound equipment and technical support required to make this event a success. Additional local support was organized by the BRTTH and PSE.
Team Leaders
David Adams, ACS, RCS, RDCS, FASE
Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina
Narciso Thad S. Ciocson, MD
Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines
CDR David Krause, MD
Naval Medical Center San Diego, California
Edwin S. Tucay, MD
Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines
Team Members
Abigail Jean M. Alaan – PSE Secretariat Philippine Society of Echocardiography Quezon City, Philippines
Charity Belmes, RN, RCS The Medical City Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
Jonnie R. Bote-Nuñez, MD Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines
Melissa R. Cundangan, MD Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines
Tina Dejkunchorn, RDCS AMN Healthcare Honolulu, Hawaii
Aurora Muriel S. Gamponia, MD Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines
Jose Donato A. Magno, MD Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines
Gregg Pressman, MD, FASE Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lucy Safi, DO Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts
Aileen C. Señga, RMT Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines
Gerald Shishido, ACS, RDCS, RCS Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Landstuhl, Germany
Maj. Kelly Stanton, MD Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Heart Research Institute Newtown, NSW, Australia
Myla Gloria S. Supe, MD Philippine Heart Center Quezon City, Philippines Andrea M. Van Hoever – ASE Staff, Morrisville, North Carolina
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