UMMC and the Haiti Relief Effort

Editor's Note: Dr. Amoroso was part of the first University of Maryland team to go to Haiti to provide medical care to earthquake survivors. The following is an excerpt of an e-mail he sent to his wife the day before leaving Haiti. Read Dr. Amoroso's first Haiti blog post.

I'm going to try to get out tomorrow. A bit torn, patients have gotten word of our departure and getting a bit upset. Every day we make some improvements and it becomes a bit addictive. We worked late tonight doing what we can to make transition to incoming group. There are about 5 people staying on and another 10-15 coming tomorrow. We know every patient in the hospital and have a medical and surgical records on all of them. We only have a few backlog cases waiting the new team.

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Editor's Note: Dr. Amoroso was part of the first University of Maryland team to go to Haiti to provide medical care to earthquake survivors. Below are his reflections, written while en route back to Baltimore. Read Dr. Amoroso's second Haiti blog post

I'm now in Boston awaiting my connection to BWI, my extraction provided by a UN cargo plan. I'm sitting here watching the Rachael Ray Show... the altered sense of reality is intense.

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Get an inside look at how a hospital prepares its team for a relief mission to a disaster site like Haiti after the recent earthquakes. In this 30-minute video, Dr. Andrew Pollak provides a detailed pre-deployment briefing to the UM team after spending a few days in Haiti assessing the medical needs there.

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In this video, Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician-in-chief of the UM Shock Trauma Center, talks about the uniqueness of this mission, preparations for sending a team to Haiti, what medical issues and challenges the team will likely face and much more.

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In this video, Dr. Andrew Pollak, associate director of trauma at the UM Shock Trauma Center and an associate professor of orthopaedics at the UM School of Medicine, talks about preparations for sending a team to Haiti and what medical issues and challenges the team will likely face.

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Guesly Delva, MD, an infectious-disease fellow with the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, has returned to his native Haiti to treat the injured. WBAL-TV interviewed Delva for this news story that is used with their permission.

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