While the Lagos State Accident & Emergency Centre provides emergency medical care to citizens of Lagos State, it focuses primarily on trauma emergency care provided to victims of injuries.
Strategically located along the busy Alausa end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the hospital is able to serve trauma victims all the way from the Shagamu interchange along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State to the Alausa end of the expressway.
Advanced Trauma Life Support
The Center uses the principles of Advanced Trauma Life Support to provide emergency clinical services to victims of injuries across the State. This principle is based on identifying and treating the known causes of death in trauma victims in an order that ensures efficiency and the best treatment outcome. This way, a methodical approach is followed in identifying these potential causes of fatality, and the same are addressed as they are identified, using global best practice protocols for the emergency room.
Emergency Medical Services
Although the Centre is primarily a trauma emergency room, the hospital also provides emergency medical measures to other patients arriving emergently. Emergency medical treatment measures are delivered as may be indicated within the capacity of the hospital and such patients are subsequently referred to appropriate Centers.
Training
The World Health Centre estimates that 30% more people die from injuries than from Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV combined together. There is a need to improve on the care delivered to the injured patient in Emergency Rooms around our cities. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of skilled human resources and this continues to get worse in light of the “brain drain” currently going on in the Country. The unfortunate implication of this is that inadequately trained personnel are being drafted to man Emergency Rooms in many hospitals, without adequate understanding of the “method” to the “madness” of the Emergency Room.
With about 13 years of experience in the high-octane environment of a busy Lagos Emergency Room, the Centre has taken it upon herself to distill critical life-saving skills required for the ER, into training that can be provided to medical personnel whether in the public or private sector.
At the moment, LASAEC provides the Medical & Trauma Emergency Care (MTEC) Program in collaboration with the Cardinal Academy of Emergency Care. The training is usually a 5-Day intensive program designed to bring practical essential emergency room skills to build confidence and prepare the emergency room medical team for whatever may come.