Caracas, October 3, 2025. — The Venemergencia Foundation, in partnership with the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (IVSS) and Dr. Domingo Luciani General Hospital, held the Third Academic Conference “Trauma: From the Scene to the Operating Room” in Caracas; a training event focused on sharing knowledge about the prehospital and medical-surgical management of patients with multiple traumas.
The event took place in the Mega Hall of the Telefónica Tower and brought together more than 150 participants, including nurses, paramedics, doctors, and medical students, all involved in the field of healthcare and medical emergencies.
For Andrea Galarraga, Director of Sustainability at the Venemergencia Foundation, this conference is the culmination of the organization’s academic work. “We continue to join forces to strengthen the link between prehospital and hospital staff, to provide better care for patients with multiple traumas—an initiative that promotes access to healthcare through education.”
Leadership in critical situations, trauma scene management, communication in emergency response, and surgical management of the polytrauma patient were among the presentations delivered during the conference by physicians and paramedics such as Wilbani León, Roberto Cecchini, Dr. Javier Goncalves, Dr. Cristopher Varela, Dr. Adrián León, and Dr. Jaddink Rosales.
Dr. Andrés Simón González-Silén, executive director and founding partner of Venemergencia, highlighted the importance of this partnership. “For access to healthcare to be truly universal, we need to work together in public-private partnerships that allow us to fulfill the greatest duty of healthcare professionals: to serve people and save lives.”
For his part, Dr. Cristopher Varela, head of the Multiple Trauma Unit at Domingo Luciani Hospital and one of the main promoters of the initiative, spoke about the next steps. “We are strengthening the knowledge of all staff involved in trauma management, from paramedics to specialized surgeons. This collaborative effort will allow us to develop training programs covering all levels of care, from the most basic to the most advanced, such as the PolyT Patient Course that we will be launching in the coming months.”
With this Third Academic Conference, the Venemergencia Foundation reaffirms its commitment to continuing education and the promotion of partnerships that strengthen the Venezuelan healthcare system, to foster the training of professionals capable of providing timely, humane, and high-quality care in emergency situations.
