By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
Aligarh: The Indo-US Academic Council for Emergency and Trauma (ACET) has given the responsibility to structure and formulate a protocol based Emergency and Trauma Airway Course (ETAC), to the Department of Anaesthesiology, J.N. Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University, under the leadership of Dr. Syed Moied Ahmed.
The Department has formed a website www.etac2009.com where the details of the course and the registration form can be down loaded by interested candidates.
Dr. S. Moeid said that the department desires to update the development on the subject and deliver practical tips to candidates, from time to time through the website and help the emergency physicians practicing the skills on patients after acquiring them.
Prof. S. Abrar Hasan, Dean Faculty of Medicine has officially launched the website in the presence of all the senior teachers of the faculty and has urged the resident doctors, junior consultants to take maximum benefit of the services delivered by the Dept. of Anaesthesiology.
Airway management is one of the most vital steps in initial resuscitation of sick or injured patients in the Emergency Departments. Due to lack of recognition to the specialty of Emergency Medicine in India, such departments are often manned by doctors with least training in managing sick patients. These doctors often lack skills in airway and ventilator management, the two crucial steps in resuscitating patients. Most of these doctors consider airway management equivalent to intubation, which is not. The emergency doctors often rely on Anaesthesiologists for airway management which results in loss of critical time, and often poor outcome.