Community Involvement

More than 200 pounds of donations were given to the Wendy Fitzwilliam Paediatric Hospital, to support their basic life support training efforts. The donations consisted of:

Equipment:
37 adult, pediatric, and infant manikins
20 boxes of manikin accessories
Automated external defibrillator (AED) trainer

The “Mind Your Health” community outreach event was held on World Mental Health Day in Miami’s Margaret Pace Park.

The event, which was planned in conjunction with the Jackson Health Foundation, raised more than $250,000 for Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital. Several nursing leaders participated in the day’s activities, overseeing booths and providing information on Jackson’s mental health services to attendees.

The MDCIPC has been a platform for education and networking for members who have had the opportunity to collaborate, participate and coordinate multiple prevention and safety events throughout our community. Coalition members have created a unified child passenger safety seat specialist list for the public and members.

Goals:

• To provide a forum where key stakeholders come together to design best practices and share resources in an attempt to reduce this upward trend of deaths and injuries in our community.
• To heighten injury awareness, provide trauma prevention education, initiate injury prevention research, and promote wellness and safety to all populations in our community

Since the late 1980s, the Miami Burn Center, located in the Ryder Trauma Center I Jackson Memorial, has collaborated with local fire departments to host the Children’s Fire Safety Festival, providing more than 4,000 young children an opportunity to “Learn Not to Burn” through five interactive stations. In addition, the center provides regular in-person training for medical staff and EMS, both in-house and at external sites. Given the inability to provide hands-on and experiential education and training due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Miami Burn Center began using technology and online platforms, such as social media, local media outlets, and video conferencing, to disseminate clinical education, training, and prevention for internal and external medical staff. Additionally, longstanding educational burn content was adapted to virtual platforms to accommodate zero-contact guidelines.

Local fire departments donated venues, videographers, and talent to collaborate and create the Virtual Children’s Fire Safety Festival, which was then sent to all Miami-Dade County public schools and community organizations, such as the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. The Virtual Children’s Fire Safety Festival platform was marketed and promoted via QR codes during press conferences and on social media to expand reach to the public.

The national Stop the Bleed program teaches bleeding control techniques to the public through didactic and return demonstration sessions.

Highlights:

• Miami Beach High School (2021) – Ryder Trauma surgeons, nurses, and emergency medicine residents successfully coordinated multiple Stop the Bleed courses and trained all teachers and staff members how to control life threatening hemorrhage. The school was also provided a trauma kit for every classroom in the event someone suffered a traumatic injury and needs immediate help.
• Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation (2021) – In collaboration with Miami-Dade County Attorney General Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office, the Ryder Trauma Center (Memorial and South) and the Army Trauma Training Department successfully trained and educated MDC Parks employees and MDPD Community Resource Officers located in the South End of Miami Dade County. This location has seen an uptick in violence and was chosen specifically by using heat maps developed by the Jackson Health System / UHealth Research Department, which identified areas with higher than normal gun related violence and injury.

Created educational intervention program for EMS, lifeguards, emergency department staff, and the public regarding the perineal hydrostatic jetstream injury (PHJI) caused by personal watercrafts. The Ryder Trauma nursing and physician teams have submitted their PHJI case review to The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma’s journal. One approved, this academic piece will be the largest case review of Jet Ski PHJI trauma to date. The next plan of action is to coordinate and implement education across our community.

Highlights:

• Presented to the Society of Trauma Nurses monthly webinar (~300 attended)
• Presented to various Ocean Rescue Departments throughout Miami-Dade County
• Abstract submitted by PHJI workgroup to the Western Trauma Association (pending approval)

Goals:

• Implement mandatory education to all EMS agencies in Miami-Dade County
• Implement mandatory education to healthcare providers and staff working in local emergency departments and urgent care centers
• Create and implement PSA alongside Miami-Dade County Department of Health and county officials to increase public awareness of PHJI