Monday, September 6, 2010

OGH to get first emergency team

Osmania General Hospital will have India’s first Emergency Medicine Department recognised by the Medical Council of India, by the first quarter of 2011.

Besides the 60-bed EMD, trained emergency super-specialists (Code Blue Team) will be available 24x7 to attend to emergency cases within the crucial “golden hour”.

“Many more lives can be saved if an EMD is established in government hospitals which receive the maximum number of emergency patients – as many as 200 on some days,” said Dr Zafar Hashmi, resident medical officer and civil assistant surgeon at OGH.

The EMD includes a Code Blue Response Team consisting of a cardiologist, a nurse, a guard, an anaesthetist and an electrician.

Qualified emergency specialists holding an MD in emergency medicine will attend to patients within the first 10-60 minutes of any mishap and the gravity of the situation can be identified immediately. As a result of zero waiting and attending time and zero negligence, more emergency patients can be saved, says Dr Chandra Sheker, head of the department of anaesthesiology and critical care at OGH.

Emergency medicine is considered important enough to be integrated into the medical syllabus. Discussions have already been held with the vice chancellor of NTR University to develop it as an academic discipline. Dr Chandra Sheker has been appointed by the Academic Council to draft the curriculum.

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