Pre-Hospital Community of Practice (PH CoP)

The SESAM Pre-Hospital Special Interest Group (PH-CoP) is a network of professionals dedicated to simulation in the field of pre-hospital emergency care. After activities in 2010 and 2011, the group was officially founded in 2012 during the SESAM Annual Meeting in Stavanger. Since then the PH-CoP has been involved in many different projects to foster the use of simulation for education and research in the field of pre-hospital emergency care.

Mission

In accordance with the aims of SESAM, we want to encourage and support the use of simulation especially in the field of pre-hospital emergency care. We want to provide an interprofessional forum to those involved in any kind of pre-hospital simulation. We belief simulation as a method of education and research can substantially contribute to excellence in pre-hospital emergency care.

Strategic aims:

Raise awareness of the need for simulation in pre-hospital care with the intention of improving patient care.
Create and maintain an inter-professional forum dedicated to pre-hospital simulation.
To facilitate research dedicated to the use of simulation in pre-hospital care.
To help to ensure the promotion of quality assurance in the use of simulation for pre-hospital care.
To be open to work in collaboration with third parties with the aim of improving technologies and techniques with simulation in pre-hospital care.
To help to promote and support the highest levels of educational excellence for simulation in pre-hospital care.

PH-CoP board:

Chair:	Prof. Lars Lundberg – Professor of Prehospital Emergency Medicine. PreHospen, Centre for Prehospital Research, University of Borås, Sweden.
Vice-Chair:	Vitor Almeida, MD – Anaesthesiologist and Emergency Physcian. Anaesthesiology Hospital Viseu, National Institute for Emergency Medicine, Portugal.
Secretary:	Ulufer Sivrikaya, MD – Anaesthesiologist. RMK Academy of Interventional Medicine, Education and Simulation (AIMES), Istanbul, Turkey.
Treasurer:	Kenneth Krarup – Consultant anaesthetist / Faculty lead, Simulation Centre, Odense University Hospital
Research Advisor:	Prof. Guillaume Alinier – Professor of Simulation in Healthcare Education, University of Herefordshire, United Kingdom. Also Director of Research, Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service, Doha, Qatar.
Development Advisor:	Gertjan Lieftinck – Ambulance, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Please see below for a short video about the PH-CoP CPR Quality Study, which was conducted in 2014.