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Emergency Physicians Die in Air Ambulance Crash at Delhi
Emergency Physicians Die in Air Ambulance Crash at Delhi
27-May-2011
Editors Desk
Dr. Syed Arshad Abbas (Diploma-Emergency Medicine) and Dr. Rajesh Jain (DNB-Anesthesia), both who were working as emergency physicians in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Apollo Hospitals New Delhi, were killed in a tragic accident on the night of May 25. They were transporting a patient via air ambulance from Patna to Delhi, when their aircraft crashed due to bad weather while approaching New Delhi. Cyril, a male nurse who was with them, also died.
This was a tremendous loss to the Indian EM community. Apollo Hospitals across the country conducted condolence meetings to pay tribute to the staff killed in the crash. Dr. Arshad had planned to do his residency in EM and was due to sit for his MCEM Part A exam on June 8.
Air ambulance crash Plane tossed turned blipped out - Times of India
Kashmiris mourn local doctors death in air ambulance crash - INewsOne
No DGCA guidelines for air ambulances in India - India Today
Crash exposes chinks in air ambulance services - Business Standard
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27-May-2011
Editors Desk
Dr. Syed Arshad Abbas (Diploma-Emergency Medicine) and Dr. Rajesh Jain (DNB-Anesthesia), both who were working as emergency physicians in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Apollo Hospitals New Delhi, were killed in a tragic accident on the night of May 25. They were transporting a patient via air ambulance from Patna to Delhi, when their aircraft crashed due to bad weather while approaching New Delhi. Cyril, a male nurse who was with them, also died.
This was a tremendous loss to the Indian EM community. Apollo Hospitals across the country conducted condolence meetings to pay tribute to the staff killed in the crash. Dr. Arshad had planned to do his residency in EM and was due to sit for his MCEM Part A exam on June 8.
Air ambulance crash Plane tossed turned blipped out - Times of India
Kashmiris mourn local doctors death in air ambulance crash - INewsOne
No DGCA guidelines for air ambulances in India - India Today
Crash exposes chinks in air ambulance services - Business Standard
If not loading on this site, Click here to watch this video on YouTube
Tranexamic Acid to be Made Available for Free
Tranexamic Acid to be Made Available for Free21-May-2011
The doctors who conducted this research are now calling on governments and aid agencies around the world to make the cheap life saving trauma drug free for patients wherever in the world they may be.
- MedIndia.Net Click here to read full article
Read full research publication from PLoS ONE
(Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Administering Tranexamic Acid to Bleeding Trauma Patients Using Evidence from the CRASH-2 Trial)
Read our June 2010 news article on Tranexamic acid in trauma
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UPDATE 07-Jun-2011
Tranexamic acid added to WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
(See section 10.2 in page 76)
http://www.who.int/selection_medicines/Complete_UNEDITED_TRS_18th.pdf
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Bangalore Waking Up to Emergency Medicine
Bangalore Waking Up to Emergency Medicine
17-May-2011
Editors Desk
Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Columbia Asia Hospitals
The Society of Emergency Medicine India (SEMI) approved a 1 year Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Columbia Asia Hospitals Bangalore, last month. The first batch is due to start from June 2011 onwards. Columbia Asia hospitals has a total of 14 emergency beds spread between two of its hospitals (275 beds). The training curriculum, created by SEMI, is well structured for the 12 month training program.
Speaking to EmergencyMedicine.in, Dr. S. Saravana Kumar MD(Accident & EM), Head of Clinical Services, said that the statistics from NIMHANS & WHO Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion, showed 392358 trauma cases with 33601 deaths in Bangalore, in 2010 alone. He said that the availability of qualified manpower is still lacking in Karnataka state, as only few institutions offer EM training programs. This required an integrated emergency care program covering all types of emergency & trauma care, which Columbia Asia has initiated in Bangalore in association with SEMI.
Click here to go to SEMI website (www.semi.org.in)
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MD (Emergency Medicine) at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences
A check on the MCI website yesterday revealed yet another medical college approved for starting the 3-year postgraduation, MD (Emergency Medicine). Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre - Bangalore, under the Rajiv Gandhi University, has been permitted for one seat in MD (EM). This is the first medical college in Karnataka to get MD (EM). Entry is likely to be through the Karnataka Common Entrance Test or via the expensive management quota.
Click here for list of medical colleges with MCI recognised MD (Emergency Medicine)
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With several of our EmergencyMedicine.in support staff based in Bangalore, this is one of the cities which we closely track with respect to awareness of emergency medicine. 1 year Fellowship has been available at St. Johns Medical College Hospital for almost a decade and Apollo Hospitals Bangalore started 3 year MCEM residency training from 2009, in addition to its 1 year RCGP affliated Fellowship in EM. Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospital, Ramaiah Medical College Hospital, and others, upgraded their emergency rooms, a few years ago. Despite this, the awareness of EM in the medical colleges & various hospitals within Bangalore is extremely poor. The hospital administrators are unaware that EM is a distinct specialty requiring EM trained manpower to run EM departments. Instead they seem to derive comfort from the fact that traditional MBBS Casualty Medical Officers (CMOs) or rotating specialty registrars, were the best for the job. The average payscales for EM physicians in Bangalore are also among the lowest (Click here for payscales). In contrast, the cities of Chennai and Hyderabad have a high degree of awareness about EM and pediatric EM.
Hopefully, with coordinated efforts of the EM community in Bangalore, this blindness to EM should disappear in the coming months, allowing people of Bangalore to access high quality emergency care. Also, the 2000+ students & interns in the city's medical colleges should begin to see EM as a reliable career choice outside the traditional postgraduate rat race.
- EmergencyMedicine.in
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17-May-2011
Editors Desk
Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Columbia Asia HospitalsThe Society of Emergency Medicine India (SEMI) approved a 1 year Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Columbia Asia Hospitals Bangalore, last month. The first batch is due to start from June 2011 onwards. Columbia Asia hospitals has a total of 14 emergency beds spread between two of its hospitals (275 beds). The training curriculum, created by SEMI, is well structured for the 12 month training program.
Speaking to EmergencyMedicine.in, Dr. S. Saravana Kumar MD(Accident & EM), Head of Clinical Services, said that the statistics from NIMHANS & WHO Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion, showed 392358 trauma cases with 33601 deaths in Bangalore, in 2010 alone. He said that the availability of qualified manpower is still lacking in Karnataka state, as only few institutions offer EM training programs. This required an integrated emergency care program covering all types of emergency & trauma care, which Columbia Asia has initiated in Bangalore in association with SEMI.
Click here to go to SEMI website (www.semi.org.in)
________________________________________________________
MD (Emergency Medicine) at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences
A check on the MCI website yesterday revealed yet another medical college approved for starting the 3-year postgraduation, MD (Emergency Medicine). Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre - Bangalore, under the Rajiv Gandhi University, has been permitted for one seat in MD (EM). This is the first medical college in Karnataka to get MD (EM). Entry is likely to be through the Karnataka Common Entrance Test or via the expensive management quota.
Click here for list of medical colleges with MCI recognised MD (Emergency Medicine)
________________________________________________________
With several of our EmergencyMedicine.in support staff based in Bangalore, this is one of the cities which we closely track with respect to awareness of emergency medicine. 1 year Fellowship has been available at St. Johns Medical College Hospital for almost a decade and Apollo Hospitals Bangalore started 3 year MCEM residency training from 2009, in addition to its 1 year RCGP affliated Fellowship in EM. Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospital, Ramaiah Medical College Hospital, and others, upgraded their emergency rooms, a few years ago. Despite this, the awareness of EM in the medical colleges & various hospitals within Bangalore is extremely poor. The hospital administrators are unaware that EM is a distinct specialty requiring EM trained manpower to run EM departments. Instead they seem to derive comfort from the fact that traditional MBBS Casualty Medical Officers (CMOs) or rotating specialty registrars, were the best for the job. The average payscales for EM physicians in Bangalore are also among the lowest (Click here for payscales). In contrast, the cities of Chennai and Hyderabad have a high degree of awareness about EM and pediatric EM.
Hopefully, with coordinated efforts of the EM community in Bangalore, this blindness to EM should disappear in the coming months, allowing people of Bangalore to access high quality emergency care. Also, the 2000+ students & interns in the city's medical colleges should begin to see EM as a reliable career choice outside the traditional postgraduate rat race.
- EmergencyMedicine.in
Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the administrator
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EMCON 2011 at Kolkota
EMCON 2011 at Kolkota
08-May-2011
Editors Desk
The 13th National Conference in Emergency Medicine (EMCON 2011) is scheduled to be held at Kolkota on 18th to 20th November 2011.
Go to official website of EMCON 2011
Last date for abstract submission is 30-July-2011.
EMCON conferences are being hosted by the Society of Emergency Medicine India (SEMI) since 1999.
Click here to see list of EMCON conferences
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08-May-2011
Editors Desk
The 13th National Conference in Emergency Medicine (EMCON 2011) is scheduled to be held at Kolkota on 18th to 20th November 2011.
Go to official website of EMCON 2011
Last date for abstract submission is 30-July-2011.
EMCON conferences are being hosted by the Society of Emergency Medicine India (SEMI) since 1999.
Click here to see list of EMCON conferences
.
Feel-Good Docs
FEEL-GOOD DOCS
8-May-2011
A patient seeks a doctor who not only has knowledge but one who makes him feel good, comfortable, spends time with him, listens to him, talks to him in a language that he understands, makes him part of decision making and treatment — fundamentally a doctor who feels for him.
Dr. Mahesh Joshi
Group Director - Emergency Medicine, Apollo Hospitals Group, INDIA
Click here to read full article from Times of India