The presentation of the donations took place today: 4 mannequins
for emergency service personnel exercises and a new analysis station
for the diagnosis of genetic pathologies of the fetus
Two new important donations from the San Bortolo Foundation were presented this morning to the Vicenza hospital, for the benefit of Suem 118 and the Genetic and Genomics Departmental Simple Operating Unit, for a total value of over 86 thousand euros.
«Once again we thank the San Bortolo Foundation and its supporters – comments Dr. Patrizia Simionato, General Director of ULSS 8 Berica. The Foundation’s numerous endowments contribute to increasing the substantial investments in technology that the Healthcare Company provides in its Investment Plan every year. The donation presented today is double and will strengthen the resources of our Company in two very different areas, thus implicitly highlighting the multiplicity of areas of intervention of our Company for the health and healthcare of citizens. Areas that we oversee by deploying highly relevant resources every day both in terms of professionalism and in terms of high-tech tools and equipment.”
«These two interventions to support two very different hospital services, the Suem 118 emergency room and the Genetics laboratory, were carried out in just over a month – says Franco Scanagatta President of the San Bortolo Foundation -. We managed to be operational immediately thanks to the contribution of all the citizens and companies who wanted to allocate 5 per thousand to us, a very important resource to be able to guarantee our healthcare excellences fundamental support, allowing them to improve efficiency and preparation thanks to state-of-the-art instruments. avant-garde”.
New dummies for the training of Suem 118 personnel
As regards the Suem 118, the donation consists of 4 cutting-edge mannequins for professional training and operator exercises, together with a simulation kit which allows the functioning of electro-medical equipment to be reproduced synchronized with therapeutic procedures, both in resuscitation advanced cardio-pulmonary and in the management of polytraumatized patients. In this way, staff can practice all the main maneuvers and assistance procedures in emergency situations, verifying the effects of their actions in real time. An important donation (the value is equal to over 46 thousand euros) which is part of a broader objective, as Dr. explains. Federico Politi, Director of the SUEM Operations Center in Vicenza: «The creation of an internal Center for Emergency Educational Training dedicated to staff, also to be able to carry out all the courses and updates internally regarding the training required for staff according to the regulations. Our 118 Operations Center is already equipped with a training room and qualified instructors in various disciplines, such as advanced trauma care, support for cardiological treatment, or for patients with metabolic medical pathologies, or even interventions in accidental events mass, the response to bacteriological and radioactive chemical events and other situations, including the recovery of patients in difficult environments. The new mannequins will allow us a notable leap in quality, which translates into a benefit in the skills acquired by the staff.”
Diagnosis of genetic pathologies of the fetus
The other donation presented this morning, worth 40 thousand euros, concerns a new cytogenetic analysis station for the UOSD Genetics and Genomics Diagnostics department, which increases the highly technological equipment already supplied in the Genetics and Genomics Analysis Laboratory and it will be used to study the chromosomal map (karyotype) in pregnant patients undergoing chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis to exclude fetal pathologies, or in patients with suspected genetic pathologies.
The flagship of the new station (which includes a computer, high resolution monitor and software) is a sophisticated artificial intelligence system, as Dr. explains. Omar Perbellini, head of the UOSD of Genetic Diagnostics and Genomics: «The use of artificial intelligence algorithms will allow us to reduce the time necessary to analyze a karyotype by over 60% and therefore increase the number of cytogenetic analyzes that can be performed in a given period of time.”
