A British doctor who is a veteran of operating in conflict zones has trained hundreds of Ukrainian colleagues for war surgery over Zoom.
Professor David Nott, who has worked in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, crunched a five-day course into a 12-hour online war surgery training session for 573 healthcare professionals in Ukraine.
During the course, one doctor said that air strike alarms were sounding around him but stayed online to learn as much life-saving information as possible.
Among the skills taught were how to deal with wounds and injuries rarely seen outside war zones, and skills including how to build makeshift pelvic binders — used to stem bleeding and compress fractures.
Prof Nott, a consultant surgeon specialising in vascular and trauma surgery at St Mary’s Hospital, co-founded the David Nott Foundation in 2015 to provide doctors and medical staff with the skills to treat wounds in areas of conflict and catastrophe.
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