White Paper on Developing Trauma Sciences and Injury Care in India
12-June-2014
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ABSTRACT
It is encouraging to see the much needed shift in the understanding and recognition of the concept of burden of disease in the context of traumatic injury. Equally important is understanding that the impact of trauma burden rivals that of non-traumatic morbidity.

Subsequently, this paradigm shift reinstates the appeal for timely interventions as the standard for management of traumatic emergencies. Emergency trauma care in India has been disorganized due to inadequate sensitivity toward patients affected by trauma as well as the haphazard, nonuniform acceptance of standardization as the norm. Some of the major hospitals across various regions in the country do have trauma care units, but even those lack protocols to ensure that all trauma cases are handled by those units, largely owing to lack of structured referral system.

As a first step to reform the state of trauma care in the country, a detailed overview is needed to gain insight into the prevailing reality. The objectives of this paper are to thus weave a foundation based on the statistical and qualitative burden of trauma in the country, the available infrastructure of trauma care centers equipped to deal with trauma, the need and scope of standardized protocols for intervention, and most importantly, the application of these in shaping educational initiatives in advancing emergency trauma care in the country.

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What A Great Job Emergency Medicine Is - Dr. Cliff Reid
10-May-2014
Editors Desk

This is a 30 minute talk released last week by ACEM. Very good lecture on what the specialty of emergency medicine is. Listen.


(If the video does not load, click here Dr. Cliff Reid - What a Great Job)



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Multiple Articles on Emergency Medicine in India
27-Apr-2014
Editors Desk

The April 2014 issue of Healthcare Executive is carrying multiple articles related to emergency medicine in India.
It is good to see so many leaders in India give their comments about EM. Have a look!

Society for Emergency Medicine India has started the process to create a national curriculum with the help of International Federation of Emergency Medicine - Dr Tamorish Kole

We need to start more academic training programs in EM across medical colleges and private hospitals - Dr Sanjay Mehta

The biggest challenge is to get hospitals to recruit qualified emergency medicine doctors, nurses and paramedics to take care of their emergency patients - Dr Imron Subhan

India can emulate legislation like EMTALA which defines how emergency care can be provided to citizens - Dr Jesse Pines

A state sponsored insurance support with a co-pay component derived from the annual family income for each insured patient is the need of the hour - Dr Anunaya Jain



(If the magazine does not load in 1 min, click here Healthcare Executive April 2014)

Evolution of Emergency Medicine - USA
18-Sep-2013


"In 1970 there were no residency-trained emergency physicians (in the US).
By the year 2000 there were tens of thousands".

"There is something so different about what emergency physicians do.
We are the only clinical specialty available 24x7".

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Weekend News from EmergencyMedicine.in
15-Sep-2013







Emergency Response Training for Airport Staff
COIMBATORE: Emergency response training was held at Coimbatore Airport by Department of Emergency Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research.
The Hindu - Click here to read

Apollo Hospitals, Rochester Medical Center tie up
HYDERABAD: Apollo Hospitals has joined hands with the US-based University of Rochester Medical Center to collaborate in areas including emergency medicine.
Business Standard - Click here to read

City Hospital to Launch Course in Emergency Medicine
PUNE: City-based Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital is going to launch two full-time training programmes in emergency medicine for MBBS doctors from September 1.
Times of India - Click here to read

Emergency medical services experts from city invited to Korea for Pan Asian Trauma Outcome Studies
VADODARA: Dr Subroto Das and Sushmita Das - founders of India's best known highway rescue operation and pioneers of EMS, have been invited at the EMS meet organized by the Asian EMS Council.
Times of India - Click here to read

SPG docs refuse to conduct medico legal formalities in private hospital
VARANASI: If medico legal formalities are considered as must before beginning treatment of any patient, any qualified medical practitioner with minimum qualification of MBBS can conduct it.
Times of India - Click here to read

Munger sadar hosp ransacked, doctor assaulted
MUNGER: The emergency services of the hospital besides all out patient departments (OPDs) were closed as doctors and staff took shelter.
Times of India - Click here to read

Women in labour pain top medical emergencies in Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: The biggest medical emergency in the state is women going into labour.
Times of India - Click here to read

4,135 patients die at Safdarjung Hospital in 6 months
NEW DELHI: Safdarjung Hospital, one of Indias largest government-run health institutions, has witnessed more than 4,135 patient deaths in last six months.
Times of India - Click here to read

Dearth of expertise: Doctors highlight importance of emergency care
ISLAMABAD: The current system of providing emergency care needs to be revamped and trained emergency physicians should be employed in all public and private hospitals in the country.
Express Tribune - Click here to read


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