Training in the protocol about snakebite accidents in the Amazon region at the Tropical Medicine Foundation Doctor Heitor Vieira Dourado

an experience report

Abstract

The goal of this text is to write about the participation of medical students from the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR) in an extension work that happened in the state of Amazonas. The capacitation was performed by the Tropical Medicine Foundation Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD) addressed in Manaus, Amazonas, seeking to show direction about the correct management and treatment of snake envenoming. This action had a target audience of health professionals and medical students. There were 84 participants and it happened in five days with 8 hours per day. During the course there were speeches, clinical case discussion and practice work, for integrating the basic and clinical stage medical and development of clinical skills. This strategy evidenced many health professionals present had preview experience with snake envenoming, but did not know the correct management and even the accurate pharmacological doses. Hence, reporting the experience of training like this is a way to provide medical learning about diseases of local importance, such as snakebite envenomation in the Amazon Region.