Research

Research is a core pillar of LFR International’s program. Focused on expanding healthcare access in developing, resource-limited settings, we strive to expand the global scope of knowledge surrounding the provision of prehospital emergency care and associated traumatic injury. Please find a list of select publicaitons authored by the LFR team below. Publications as a result of LFR-affiliated research projects are listed below and will be updated as research developments occur.

Select Publications

  1. World Journal of Surgery. “Lay First Responder Training in Eastern Uganda: Leveraging Transportation Infrastructure to Build an Effective Prehospital Emergency Care Training Program.” Delaney PG, Bamuleke R, Lee YJ. [Publication Link] / [LFR Project Page]

  2. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open “Designing and implementing a practical prehospital emergency trauma care curriculum for lay first responders in Guatemala.” Delaney PG, Figueroa JA, Eisner ZJ, Hernandez Andrade RE, Karmakar M, Scott JW, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link] / [LFR Project Page]

  3. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine “Developing a Lay First Responder Program in Chad: A 12-Month Follow-Up Evaluation of a Rural Prehospital Emergency Care Program.” Hancock CJ, Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Kroner E, Mahamet-Nuur I, Scott JW, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link] / [LFR Project Page]

  4. Injury “Evaluation of a lay first responder program in Sierra Leone as a scalable model for prehospital trauma care.” Eisner ZJ, Delaney PG, Thullah AH, Yu AJ, Timbo SB, Koroma S, Sandy K, Sesay AD, Turay P, Scott JW, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link] / [LFR Project Page]

  5. Emergency Medicine Journal “Evaluation of a lay first responder program in Sierra Leone as a scalable model for prehospital trauma care.” Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Blackwell TS, Ssekalo I, Kazungu R, Lee YJ, Scott JW, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link] / [LFR Project Page]

  6. World Journal of Surgery “Evaluating a Novel Prehospital Emergency Trauma Care Assessment Tool (PETCAT) for Low-and Middle-Income Countries in Sierra Leone.” Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Thullah AH, Muller BD, Sandy K, Boonstra PS, Scott JW, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link]/[LFR Project Page]

  7. African Journal of Emergency Medicine “Prehospital care for traumatic spinal cord injury by first responders in 8 sub-Saharan African countries and 6 other low-and middle-income countries: A scoping review.” Eisner ZJ, Delaney PG, Widder P, Aleem IS, Tate DG, Raghavendran K, Scott JW. [Publication Link]

  8. Injury “Identifying a 'super-responder' phenomenon in three African countries: Implications for prehospital emergency care training.” Eisner ZJ, Delaney PG, Klapow MC, Raghavendran K, Klapow JC. [Publication Link]

  9. Journal of Surgical Research “Cost-Effectiveness of Lay First Responders Addressing Road Traffic Injury in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Bustos A, Hancock CJ, Thullah AH, Jayaraman S, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link]

  10. Spinal Cord “Evaluating a novel, low-cost technique for cervical-spine immobilization for application in resource-limited LMICs: a non-inferiority trial” Eisner ZJ , Delaney PG , Pine H, Yeh K, Aleem IS, Raghavendran K, Widder P. [Publication Link]

  11. World Journal of Surgery “Prehospital Airway Management for Trauma Patients by First Responders in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries and Five Other Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review” Pine H, Eisner ZJ, Delaney PG, Ogana SO, Okwiri DA, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link]

  12. Pan African Medical Journal “Comparing Ugandan motorcycle taxi driver estimations of injury incidence to District-level injury surveillance data as a proxy to determine factors influencing risk perception” Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Bamuleke R. [Publication Link]/[LFR Project Page]

  13. Injury “Evaluating feasibility of a novel mobile emergency medical dispatch tool for lay first responder prehospital response coordination in Sierra Leone: A simulation-based study” Delaney PG , Eisner ZJ, Thullah AH, Turay P, Sandy K , Boonstra PS, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link]/[LFR Project Page]

  14. Injury “Evaluating a digital hybrid training-of-trainers (TOT) approach for lay first responder trauma education in urban Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic” Eisner ZJ, Delaney PG, Achunine P, Kulkarni A, Shaida F, Onabanjo S, Popoola A, Klapow MC, Pine H, Sun J, Rahavendran K. [Publication Link]/[LFR Project Page]

  15. World Journal of Surgery “Prehospital hemorrhage management in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review” Kulkarni AJ, Batra A, Eisner ZJ, Delaney PG, Pine H, Klapow MC, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link]

  16. Injury “Challenges, opportunities, and priorities for tier-1 emergency medical services (EMS) development in low- and middle-income countries: A modified Delphi-based consensus study among the global prehospital consortium” Global Prehospital Consortium. [Publication Link]

  17. Surgery “Education and training of prehospital first responders in low- and middle-income countries” Eisner ZJ, Diango K, Sun JH. [Publication Link]

  18. Surgery “Transportation and equipment needs for emergency medical services development in low- and middle-income countries” Eisner ZJ, Smith NJ, Wylie C [Publication Link]

  19. Surgery “The emergency burden in low and middle-income countries” Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Geduld H. [Publication Link]

  20. Surgery “Future directions for emergency medical services development in low- and middle-income countries” Delaney PG, Moussally J, Wachira BW. [Publication Link]

  21. Surgery “Emergency medical dispatch technologies: Addressing communication challenges and coordinating emergency response in low and middle-income countries” Frisen J, Kharel R, Delaney PG. [Publication Link]

  22. Surgery “Financing and cost-effectiveness of emergency medical services in low- and middle-income countries” Delaney PG, Offorjebe AO, Arudo J. [Publication Link]

  23. Injury “Leveraging transportation providers to deploy lay first responder (LFR) programs in three sub-Saharan African countries without formal emergency medical services: Evaluating longitudinal impact and cost-effectiveness” Delaney PG, Eisner ZJ, Pine H, Klapow M, Thullah AH, Bamuleke R, Nurr IM, Raghavendran K. [Publication Link]

 

Resources

At the forefront of EMS research in low-resource settings, LFR tries to maintain the most up to date and useful library of resources possible for our fellows and collaborating investigators, partners, and institutions. All of our resources are, and will always be, completely open source.

Research Collaboration

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