Emergency Medicine & Trauma Care
September/October 2025 | Volume 24 Number 5
Photo courtesy of Dr. Christie, UCLA Cameroonian trauma care physician, Dr. Marpha, learning to perform smartphone-based ultrasound on a standardized patient
Emergency medicine focuses on managing and evaluating critically ill and injured patients, while trauma surgeons provide care for patients who require immediate operation. These surgeries are a frequent occurrence.
Injuries rank as the greatest single cause of surgical disease globally, disproportionately affecting low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Emergency medicine and trauma care services are widely available in higher resourced settings, but in LMICs these specialty services are too often poorly developed… or all-together absent. Emergency departments, when they exist, may be staffed by health care professionals lacking in specialty training. Meanwhile, limited budgets preclude investment in prehospital systems, such as ambulance services or technologies for communication between first responders and hospitals.
The following researchers, funded by Fogarty and the National Institutes of Health, are working to strengthen emergency medicine and trauma care in Pakistan, Cameroon and Rwanda.
Updated November 19, 2025
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