Of the 85 seats, admission to 50 per cent of the seats will be surrendered for admission through all India quota for admission by the director general of health services. At least 80 students have been admitted to the postgraduate course this year. Counselling for the remaining five seats under the all-India quota is in progress, said Ma Subramanian.
Our aim is to develop this trauma centre on the lines of the similar centre at AIIMS, Delhi within the next 2-3 years. It would ensure quality interdisciplinary medical care to save lives and limbs of patients,” stressed Maj Gen Dr Sushil Kumar Jha.
Structured emergency health courses modeled after advanced curricula and practices in the West while accounting for India’s socio-cultural and demographic uniqueness can show the way forward for emergency care in the country.
MBBS doctors who work full-time in the emergency departments of Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Navi Mumbai undergo a highly supervised clinical and academic training of 1 year duration known as Emergency Medicine Foundation Program (EMFP).
Fitbit Flow builds on standard resuscitator bags, like those used by paramedics, with sophisticated instruments, sensors, and alarms that work together to support automated compressions and patient monitoring.
The new analysis in Annals of Emergency Medicine shows that the prevalence of patients who visited emergency departments at four Indiana hospital systems for repeat opioid-related emergencies jumped from 8.8 per cent of all opioid-related visits in 2012 to 34.1 per cent in 2017 - nearly a four-fold increase in just five years.
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Prof. Terrence Mulligan, Adjunct Professor in Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine to know more about the burn out among doctors and how the system is over relying on them and are abusing them too.
Emergency care is regarded as a basic human right in most societies. Therefore they expect that the state should bear the cost of providing emergency care.
It is high time to grade our emergency rooms and make sure that the right emergency victim reaches the right emergency room and get optimal care. Time should not be wasted in shifting the victim from one hospital to another.
Burn-out is a combination of psychological, physical and behavioural symptoms, which a person feels. It's because of what has happened to them in the place where they are working.
"Emergency care and emergency medicine played a vital role in the healthcare system. The initial management and stabilisation of a patient in need of emergency care is truly a speciality on its own and requires intensive training and resources. Very often the availability of emergency care makes the difference between life and death," he said.
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