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Trauma Training Should Include Medical Curricula
« on: July 04, 2010, 11:27:06 AM »
Trauma Training Should Include Medical Curricula

LAHORE: Trauma Evaluation And Management (TEAM) training should be incorporated in the medical curriculum across Punjab for proper treatment of accidents and terrorist-attack victims, senior medical professors told Daily Times on Saturday.

Trauma is a specialised field and doctors need to be properly trained in order to treat accident victims, and those injured in terrorist attacks, they said.

The medical professors pointed out the lack of doctors trained to treat trauma patients in hospitals across the province.

They said that the need to train doctors in this field is even greater after the recent rise in terrorism.

Killer: Mayo Hospital Surgery Department head Professor Arshad Cheema said trauma is the “number one killer” of patients in Pakistan and the government needs to spend money to train doctors in emergency care of injured patients.

“Whether a patient lives or dies depends upon the treatment given to him or her in the first hour after reaching the hospital. Considering the importance of the first hour of saving a life, it is called the golden hour and golden hour management needs training”, he added.

“You cannot put a doctor in the emergency wards in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UK, USA, Germany and Australia without trauma training... the same rule should apply in Pakistan... all medical students should be trained in the TEAM principle,” Cheema said, adding that he had been conducting trauma training courses for the “past many years” and had trained “scores of doctors, but still the number of trauma-trained doctors is not enough”.

King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Vice Chancellor Professor Zafarullah Khan said KEMU medical graduates are given trauma training in their final year of MBBS and other medical colleges should follow the example as well.

“Doctors should know what to do during an emergency situation… trauma training builds confidence among young doctors and increases their efficiency in emergency wards,” Khan said.

Mandatory: Young Doctors’ Association General Secretary Salmaan Kazmi said the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has notified institutional heads to ensure trauma training for doctors during their house job and the PMDC has declared the Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate mandatory for doctors before completing the house job. “The PMDC will initiate action against hospitals, both public and private, which are not meeting these standards,” Kazmi added.

Pakistan Medical Society Chairman Dr Masood Akhtar said that while the medical curriculum is community-oriented, unfortunately, in the third world it is “imported” from the developed countries.

He said each doctor should be trained to treat trauma patients before starting work in emergency wards. Each era has a priority subject and the need of the hour is to train all doctors in emergency care. Moreover, he said people should also be aware of their blood groups and those with rare groups should identify people with similar blood groups to avoid panic if faced with an emergency situation.Daily times
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