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A
global overview of intensive care medicine
The speciality of critical care was born in the polio epidemic
of the 1950s. Simple ventilators or hand vertilation enabled
the survival of some patients, if respiratory function would
be maintained.
Investing
in critical care
Critical care as a field of medicine and health care crosses
traditional departmental lines typically seen in hospitals.
Critical
care for neuro patients requires specialised training
Neuro critical care has become the need of the hour in managing
complicated and complex neurological disorders.
‘India
needs a central monitoring authority for critical care’
In recent years India has witnessed an unprecedented growth
in the health care industry with the coming up of big, swanky
hospitals having state-of-the-art facilities.
‘Hospitals
are recognising critical care as new speciality’
The need for efficient management of acutely ill patients
and victims of accidents is being recognised by most hospitals
and nursing homes and several of them are well prepared in
handling such patients.
The
journey to modern anaesthesia
From the barbaric way of beating the patient’s head from
behind, reported as one of the 16th Century primitive “anaesthetise”
techniques, the business of taking patients to, and bringing
them back from, the state of unconsciousness, anaesthesia,
has come a long way.
RTIICS
to set up 350 bed trauma centre
Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences
(RTIICS), is gearing up to reach out to the accident patients
at the Armenian Church Trauma Center.
Ruby
hospital trains 70 ambulance drivers/attendants
In an unique training programme, Ruby General Hospital, one
of the leading multi-specialty referral hospitals in eastern
India in association with the Kolkata Chapter of Indian Society
of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) organised a day-long workshop
for 70 ambulance drivers and attendants.
ICUs
in changeover mode
With the advancement of technology, the speciality of intensive
care, which is only 30 years old, is rapidly evolving.
The
good ICUs
Express Healthcare Management gives a glimpse of the facilities
available at reputed ICUs across the country
Intensivists
demand recognition for their speciality
This super-specialist treats the most difficult patients —
those battling with life. He spends at least 12 hours in the
hospital and attends to more than one phone call in the middle
of night, with the need to rush to the hospital many a times.
The
oldest emergency medicine dept in Karnataka
The 1200-bed St John’s Medical College Hospital earns
the distinction of having the first Emergency Medicine Department
in the State of Karnataka set up in the year 1998.
Delhi
hospitals: Specialising in air rescue
Providing emergency medical services to the abounding two
crore population is quite a task for the hospitals and nursing
homes in the city. Sapna Dogra surveys Delhi hospitals in
search of a good EMS system.
CTC:
A model to emulate
Brainchild of Dr N K Venkatramana, director, Manipal Institute
of Neurological Disorders, the Comprehensive Trauma Consortium
(CTC), a social and voluntary organisation founded in the
Bangalore city has evolved to handle trauma care in an organised
way.
EMS
in Kolkata
The Peerless Hospital and B K Roy Research Centre, the 300-beded
multi-specialty ISO 9002 accredited leading tertiary care
hospital has a 24x7 helpline ‘2462-2462.’
Products
Easy
record-keeping from IDN
The Indian Doctors Network (IDN) has launched an upgraded
version of their software as a comprehensive clinical and
patient management solution called IDN’s CPMS.
Emergency
sentinel of Pune
As soon as the phone rings at the Emergency Medical Services
(EMS) call centre in the ground floor of Deenanath Mangeshkar
hospital, a man attired in white uniform with the international
EMS logo “star of life” jots down the name and number
of the caller, site of the accident and the relation of the
patient with the accident victim.
‘Corporates
should lend assistance to equip ambulances’
Dr Saurabh Kole, former all-India secretary of Indian Society
of Critical Care Medicine and secretary of the Kolkata chapter
of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, was instrumental
in setting up the Kolkata branch of the Society and organises
all the activities of the Society in the Eastern region.
‘There
is severe shortage of staff trained in critical care’
Dr R K Mani, senior consultant with Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals,
New Delhi is also the president elect, Indian Society for
Critical Care Medicine.
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