Save a Life Educational Videos

International Medical Corps and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) have partnered to implement a comprehensive emergency and trauma care training curriculum to hospitals, clinicians, and the Ukrainian community. The training curriculum includes short educational videos to enable asynchronous and just-in-time learning. The video series, titled Save a Life, has been designed by experts in medicine, public health, education, and communications. Save a Life focuses on providing equitable, open access to trusted information designed by experts in a concise, easy-to-use format.

Save a Life is designed for laypersons and public safety professionals (healthcare workers, firefighters, emergency medical services and law enforcement) to use in real-time or to review beforehand to respond to a variety of conflict-related trauma events and to save lives.. The videos are in Ukrainian with English subtitles and aim to build sustainable local capacity by teaching or refreshing emergency care skills in each of the topics below:

  1. Stop the Bleed® teaches laypeople how to stop life-threatening bleeding 
  2. Psychological First Aid guides field workers through conversations with people suffering crisis events 
  3. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Fundamentals guide individuals through initial actions in case of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive attack 
  4. Prehospital Trauma Fundamentals review care fundamentals provided in the field before hospital arrival
  5. Advanced Trauma Life Support Fundamentals guides clinicians on immediate trauma resuscitation and management (airway, breathing, circulation disability, and exposure)
  6. Pediatric Trauma Fundamentals guides clinicians through the immediate management of pediatric trauma patients, including patient assessment (airway, breathing, circulation disability and exposure), pain management, burn management, and fluid and blood resuscitation 
  7. Mass Casualty Management from the World Health Organization guides hospital staff and laypeople through the key steps to prepare and respond to a disaster that creates many casualties 

As noted above, the videos are in Ukrainian with English subtitles, with transcripts available for each video. Please keep in mind that the videos deal with trauma care, so some viewers may find certain descriptions and images disturbing.

When the series is complete, there will be 35 videos available for healthcare staff, first responders and the interested layperson on our YouTube site. Browse the playlist now.