About The Event
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ASEF volunteers provided clinical care for patients in rural village outreaches, as well as participated in an exchange of educational lectures and training with local clinicians at the Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital.
Outreach events to rural villages are part of the standard practice of the major teaching hospitals in Vietnam. Rheumatic heart disease remains endemic, yet echocardiography, the primary way to detect and characterize early (leading to preventive measures) and advanced stage (leading to mitral valve interventions), is only available at centers in major cities. One of this event’s core components was be to teach local clinicians how to use laptop size echo platforms in resource poor settings.
One of the other key components was to establish the use of focused cardiac ultrasound in resource poor areas of Vietnam. Training in the use of focused cardiac ultrasound to screen for important cardiovascular disorders will be provided for non-cardiologist clinicians, which allowed for effective triage of the use of full echocardiography.
Highlights
Collaborative Training
In Vietnam, Physicians do the patient scanning; they don’t have sonographers like the US hospital system. The 75 cardiologists at Bach Mai see 500 outpatients and 450 inpatients daily, performing 70,000 echocardiograms a year. Mindray generously provided the six M7 ultrasound machines our team is using, and also sponsored a day-long educational symposium our team held at the hospital.
Donated Resources
Mindray donated a M7 System to the Vietnam National Heart Institute/Bach Mai Hospital. Dr. Jose Banchs and Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick also presented the hospital with ASE's complete guidelines poster set.
Introductions to Echo
Nurses manage the day-today operations at the clinics, our team worked closely with nurses to train them in a very basic image acquisition. Teaching them to recognize abnormal versus normal in a broad sense will help them triage patients who need to come to the central hospital.
Participants & Collaborators
The 13 volunteers consisted of physicians, sonographers, translators and Mindray representatives. Our team worked closely with Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital Team Leaders: Prof. Do Doan Loi, MD, PhD,Nguyen Thi Thu Hoai, MD, PhD, and Tuan Le Thanh, MD.
Team Leaders
Jose Banchs, MD, FASE
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
James Kirkpatrick, MD, FASE
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Team Members
David Adams, RCS, RDCS, FASE Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
Rebecca Hahn, MD, FASE Columbia University New York, NY
Jill Inafuku, BS, RDMS, FASE Tripler Army Medical Center Kaneohe, HI
Thanh Kirkpatrick, MD, MPH Esperanza Health Center Philadelphia, PA
Tu Nguyen Translator Houston, TX
Rachel Quang, RDCS Midcoast Hospital Brunswick, ME
Liza Sanchez, RCS, FASE The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
William Song General Manager, Mindray Medical Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Nova Sprague, BS, RDCS The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
Kin Wen Mindray Clinical Support Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Andrea M. Van Hoever ASE Staff
Partners In Care
The ASE Foundation thanks our partners for this event, Vietnam National Heart Institute, Bach Mai Hospital and Mindray.
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