This year our team of 93 volunteers – medical professionals and lay people – changed the lives of 58 Ecuadoreans and their families. We performed 35 procedures on 24 children, and did 39 hip replacements for 34 adults. Five of those adults had BOTH hips replaced and walked out of the hospital a few days later!

New for us this year – an on-site blood bank at Un Canto a la Vida Hospital which made it much easier for our patients to get blood if they needed transfusions. Previously, a patient’s family had to travel across Quito to pick up donated blood, when needed.

On the Saturday morning between Weeks One and Two, two of our CAMTA surgeons, Jaime Carvajal Alba and Jay Jarvis, presented at the first Tierra Nueva Foundation Conference on Orthopedics and Traumatology. Dr. Carvajal Alba’s talk on Coxartrosis (osteoarthritis of the hip) and Dr. Jarvis’ on Hip Dysplasia in Children arising from Fractures were well received by the local doctors, nurses and physiotherapists in attendance. We are already planning for the Second Annual Conference in 2016.

Pediatric LPN, Saison Demitor, taught CPR to local nurses and nursing students at the hospital on the second Wednesday morning. Saison is a CPR instructor for the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Saison used a power point presentation, which had been translated in Spanish ahead of time, to review the basics of adult and child CPR, the Heimlich maneuver and the use of an AED (automated external defibrillator).

 And we are happy to say that ALL of our patients were discharged before we left Quito this year. This rarely happens. Patients who have surgery late in Week 2 often need to be cared for for a few extra days by the very competent staff at Un Canto a la Vida. Our timely discharges this year included a patient who had BOTH hips replaced on Friday and was able to walk and navigate stairs by Sunday morning! 

2015 Team Members

Name	Role
Adam Petriw	Translator
Adela Sandigo Gross	RN – Ward – Adult
Alexandra Tapia	Translator
Aline Pourbaix Young	Administration
Alyssa Chappell	RN – Ward – Pediatric
Amanda Tong	RN – Operating Room – Pediatric
Andrea Kreitz	Resident – Anesthesia
Andrew Tice	Resident – Orthopedics
Armin Badre	Resident – Orthopedics
Barb Moreau	Administration
Becca Day	Student – General
Brenda Corie	Physiotherapist
Candice Kochan	Respiratory Therapist
Cathy Hutchinson	RN – Operating Room – Adult
Christine Lakhram	RN – Operating Room – Adult
Daniel Lefebvre	Lay Person
Darlene Hammell	Physician – Family Practice
Deb Chalupa	RN – Ward – Adult
Deborah Mears	Lay Person
Dianne Cortez	RN – Ward – Pediatric
Don Weber	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Adult
Don Dick	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Pediatric
Edward Masson	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Adult
Erica Graves	RN – Ward – Adult
Faisal Kassam	RN – Recovery Room – Adult
Florian Rudolph	Physician – Anesthesiologist – Pediatric
Francisco Gallardo	Translator
Glenn Day	Respiratory Therapist
Greg Zinter	Information Technologist/Patient Admitting Clerk
Hannah Turner	Translator
Heather Perl	RN – Operating Room – Adult
Heather Raitt	RN – Operating Room – Adult
In Memory of Consuelo Alvarez	Translator
Ina Verheul	O.R. Technician
Jaime A. Carvajal Alba	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Adult
James Jarvis	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Pediatric
Jane Fletcher	Student – General
Jim Raso	Information Technologist/Patient Admitting Clerk
Joanne Montgomery	Physiotherapist
Judith Chaffee	RN – Ward – Adult
Judith Black	Physiotherapist
Julie Cadrin	RN – Ward – Pediatric
Jumjury Hemmerich	RN – Ward – Adult
Karen Calhoun	Lay Person
Karla Gambier	RN – Operating Room – Pediatric
Kathryn Fry	Physician – Anesthesiologist – Pediatric
Kathy Bonitz	RN – Operating Room – Adult
Kayla Strickland	RN – Ward – Adult
Kristen Redhead	Physiotherapist
Krystal Stevely	RN – Operating Room – Adult
Krystle Chilibecki	Physiotherapist
Larry Hermoso	Communications – Mission Blogger
Lisa Bleackley	RN – Ward – Adult
Mairi Gordon	RN – Recovery Room – Adult
Marc Moreau	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Pediatric
Mark Rockley	Student – Medical
Marta Mora	Translator
Mary Hurlburt	Physician – Family Practice
Masaru Yukawa	Physician – Anesthesiologist – Adult
Matthew Moreau	Travel Person/Logistics
Michelle Lord	RN – Operating Room – Adult
Neha Gupta	Communications – Mission Blogger
Neil Saran	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Pediatric
Norah McNaughton	Licensed Practical Nurse
Pauline Worsfold	RN – Recovery Room – Adult
Peggy Prodor	Lay Person
Peter Masson	Lay Person
Peter Ratcliff	Lay Person
Rachael Cheechoo	Lay Person
Rachel Oates	Physiotherapist
Rachelle Lonneberg	Student – General
Rae Lim-Cheung	RN – Operating Room – Pediatric
Rejean Cloutier	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Adult
Robin Dufresne	RN – Ward – Adult
Ryan Paul	Resident – Orthopedics
Ryan Wright	Physician – Family Practice
Saifee Rashiq	Physician – Anesthesiologist – Adult
Saison Demitor	O.R. Technician
Sammy Ruiz	Translator/Logistics
Samuel Stetsko	Physician – Anesthesiologist – Adult
Sarah Roshko	Student – Medical
Sebastian Rodriguez-Elizalde	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Adult
Shaun Capicio	RN – Operating Room – Pediatric
Simone La Guerre	RN – Recovery Room – Adult
Sumit Gupta	Physician – Orthopedic Surgeon – Pediatric
Sydnie Weber	Student – General
Timothy Smith	Translator
Toby Cubitt	Translator
Tonya Kennedy	RN – Operating Room – Adult