A training for doctors on advanced trauma life support was held at a city hospital recently, where the organisers said a bigger pool of trained doctors will help manage patients with “poly-trauma injuries” and save lives.
A doctor, one of the trainers, said patients often die in transit from a smaller town to a city after a trauma injury in an accident. Hospitals on the peripheries of big cities often lack trained personnel to manage a patient.
“The patients are sent to bigger hospitals in cities. If the hospitals and nursing homes in peripheries have trained staff, they will stabilise the patient and then refer the person to a bigger hospital,” said Anirban Chatterjee, an orthopaedic surgeon at Medica Superspecialty Hospital, and one of the trainers. The training programme was held at Medica.
About 60 doctors were trained and case studies were discussed.
“A single doctor or a single nurse who is trained is sufficient to prevent deterioration from life-threatening injuries during the golden period,” Chatterjee said.
The training module has been developed by the American College of Surgeons, he said.
“There were 33 training centres in the country and Medica has become the 34th one. These are centres with accreditation from the advanced trauma life support (ATLS) chair office at AIIMS, New Delhi,” he said.
