Training at the SPMT Kardio-Med Silesia

An important area of activity of the Silesian Park of Medical Technology Kardio-Med Silesia is practical training for doctors, resident doctors, trainee doctor and other medical disciplines in the theoretical part, simulators and in the practical part using a large animal model. All training courses carried out at the Silesian Park of Medical Technology Kardio-Med Silesia, in which an animal model is used, require the appropriate approval of the Ethical Committee before commencement.

Silesian Park of Medical Technology Kardio-Med Silesia cooperates with the best experts in the country and abroad in order to improve the training program for medical personnel, resulting, among others, in a project carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Health under the POWER 5.4 program “Skills courses for physicians and resident doctors based on Evidence Based Medicine”, under which medical specialists can improve their professional qualifications based on training with the use of state-of-the-art simulation and treatment techniques in the following thematic areas:

• 3D ablation in the treatment of arrhythmias,
• Implantation of electrodeless pacemakers,
• Invasive treatment of atrial fibrillation with the course of transseptal puncture,
• Treatment of a difficult patient, complicated in the endovascular laboratory,
• Surgical treatment of aortic valve defects and ascending aorta.

Another important area of training carried out by Silesian Park of Medical Technology Kardio-Med Silesia is training, which will be initiated in October 2023 in so-called “battlefield medicine.” In view of the threats of military conflict, which began on February 24, 2022 on European soil, when the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine, Silesian Park of Medical Technology Kardio-Med Silesia, together with specialists in battlefield medicine and emergency medicine, is introducing training into its cyclical program. The training is intended for soldiers performing medical functions (rescuers who have completed the course of qualified first aid, paramedics and doctors) who are on active duty, as part of improving the professional qualifications of these groups of specialists in case of potential threats to the defense of the territory and citizens of the Republic of Poland. The practical scope of the training includes procedures, i.e. supplying evisceration, stopping bleeding, amputation of the hind limb, decompression of pneumothorax and conicotomy, increasing the chances of the wounded to survive in the conditions of prolonged care of the injured on the battlefield and the subsequent possibility of safe evacuation to higher levels of medical security.