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Training in acute trauma management

By Our Staff Reporter

Chennai Jan. 31. With trauma billed as the third largest cause of death worldwide, a two-day training programme — National Trauma Management Course — to be held here, aims to attract healthcare professionals, traffic managers and policy makers towards a more professional approach to handling of trauma.

The course, jointly organised by the Association of Surgeons of India, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, the International Association for Surgery of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care and the Academy of Traumatology on February 1 and 2, focuses on acute trauma management. It has been proved scientifically that standardising resuscitation, assessment and initial care of trauma patients will dramatically improve their survival chances, according to the conference organising secretary, S. Ravi Subramaniam.

"On Indian roads, a serious accident occurs every three minutes and death due to accident, every 10 minutes. At least 50 per cent of the victims die within minutes of the occurrence of accident. A further 30 per cent die within hours. Good trauma management can handle this large group and ensure better chances of survival for them," one of the faculty members of the conference, Manjul Joshipura, said.

The training consists of core content lectures by specialists, hands-on training for life-saving procedures and individual evaluations at the end of the course. Around 120 doctors from all over south India will participate in the programme and overseas faculty include Elias Degiannis, Peter Danne, Eduardo Romero Hicks and Gereth Edwards Luis Martinez. An interaction with the Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), GUG. Sastry, has also been scheduled for February 2 at Hotel Savera, the venue.

Talking about the weak link in provision of emergency services to transport the patients from the accident spot to the hospital, Dr. Eduardo Romero Hicks, an emergency medical technician from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, said training of paramedics to handle trauma patients would be started in Gujarat. He expressed the hope that the Gujarat experience would yield a module that could be replicated elsewhere.

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