Ludhiana, September 20
The national trauma management course is a course on acute trauma management, which enables doctors to learn the techniques, particularly applicable to the patient who requires immediate care for major trauma, in a setting where such care is not commonly practised or even necessarily available, said Professor Stephene Deane, Professor of Surgery at the Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia, and world president the International Association for Surgery of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care (IATSIC), while emphasising the importance of such courses in Indian situations. Professor Deane was in the city today to conduct a two-day course on trauma management.
The member of the council of Royal Australasian and American Colleges of Surgeons, Professor Deane stressed that the course aimed at teaching the doctors to organise facts and to tell them from where to start as the outcome of the treatment in an accident victim depends largely on the care that is provided during initial couple of hours.
“This is the ninth course in India and perhaps the first one in this part of the region, organised by IATSIC. It is extremely helpful for the medical fraternity as it builds up confidence in them to organise their thinking. It helps in decreasing the mortality and morbidity rate. Several lives can be saved and severe disabilities can be changed into the minor ones. Through these courses, we are able to train more than 1000 Indian doctors”, said Prof. Deane.
When asked whether Indian doctors lacked such knowledge, Prof. Deane admitted that a majority of doctors were not aware of the updated trends. They believed in traditional old teachings, but such courses should be made mandatory for all doctors.
While talking to Ludhiana Tribune about the objectives of such training, Prof. Deane said that it was helpful in assessing the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately.
It provided basic knowledge to the doctors to stabalise the patients on a priority basis. The training helped in providing assurance that the optimal care was provided to the patient at each step.
Ms Sue Neilson, member of the National Faculty of the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) programme in South Africa and trauma coordinator on the Johannesburg Hospital trauma unit, said that the course was specifically designed taking into account Indian patients.
It covered all aspects of acute management of a polytrauma patient, including life saving emergency procedures. It will cover basic techniques for managing injuries involving all major systems of the body.
This two-day course was started at Gurdev Hospital here today. Dr N.K. Aggarwal, the organising secretary of the course, said that more than 120 doctors from states like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab were participating in the course. “It will help the doctors to streamline their knowledge in managing the accident victims.
The results and the feedback we get is marvellous. It is extremely helpful to the Indian set-up. I am sure that the trained doctors can save several lives of the accident victims (mainly the productive age group)”, claimed Dr Aggarwal.
