Cardiologists drawn from a host of private hospitals in the city on Friday said that State should have a standardised programme to manage heart attacks in all hospitals.
Doctors felt that such a programme would enable healthcare providers to efficiently tackle the ever increasing number of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) cases and also improve existing standard operating procedures to handle heart attack cases. Compared to any other ethnic group, Indians have the highest mortality and morbidity rates due to Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), the heart surgeons said.Treatment protocols
“It’s now projected that the number of Indians with CAD is above six crore out of which 2.3 crore are below 40 years and one crore younger than 30 years. We need to set up standardised treatment protocols, develop a heart attack care programme for Telangana and train the doctors on handling heart attacks,” said interventional cardiologist, Dr. Thomas Alexander.
In this direction, a two-day workshop is being held from Saturday.
Two-day workshop on management of heart attacks caused by complete blockage of coronary arteries due to blood clots, known as ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction from today
