DR ZAHEER AHMAD, DR JAHANZEB IFTIKHAR,
DR ABDULLAH & DR ZEESHAN SENSITIZED & TRAINED THE INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS
VERY EFFECTIVELY.
Global organization Environment &
Health (eMed) & Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North
America (APPNA) have devised & launched a training program on immediate
cardiac response, for all walks of community. This program is for the “Medical
care for victims of life threatening illnesses or injuries until they reach
hospital”. This covers road traffic accidents, earthquake, bomb blasts &
all sort of medical emergencies.
This prestigious & useful program will
reach:
• Students
• Undergraduate
& post-graduate doctors
• Nurses
• Paramedics
• Police
• Traffic
police
• Rescue
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• Media
men
• Multinational
companies
• Business
men
• Teachers
• Bankers
• And
all other walks of life.
The program successfully proceeding &
on the request of Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Faisalabad, training workshops
will be devised for 850 traffic wardens in batches. On Sunday, 28.9.2014, the
training workshop was organized for the 1st batch of the traffic
wardens.
Master Trainers of Immediate Cardiac
Response (ICR) were the eMed doctors, Dr Zaheer Ahmad, Dr Jahanzeb Iftikhar, Dr
Abdullah & Dr Zeeshan who, under the supervision of Prof Javed Iqbal,
Incharge Surgical Unit-V, DHQ Hospital & Dr Khurram Sohail Raja, Head of
Forensic Medicine, Punjab Medical College Faisalabad, conducted the training
workshop in four sessions, in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Punjab
Medical College Faisalabad.
The doctors laid down the objectives of the
workshop very clearly. They told the participants about the ‘barrier devices’
which help in maintaining artificial respiration of the injured or the sick.
They also sensitized on the 1st aid measures taken in case if any ‘foreign
body’ sticks in the respiratory tract.
The doctors specifically stressed on the
safety of the patient as well as the responder. The participants showed special
interest in ‘silent heart attack’, its sign & symptoms & what 1st aid
measures can be taken in the case.
Participants while learning ‘adult chain of
survival’ & ‘infant chain of survival’ were found very enthusiastic &
vowed to take advantage of that in future.
Master Trainers had very successful group
training sessions in which participants were able to learn & demonstrate
how to maintain artificial respiration and what steps can be taken for heart if
it stops (CPR).
The session on ‘choking of the airway due
to a foreign body’ specially took all interest from the participants who
prolonged the session & practiced the methods effectively on each other.
Dr
Khurram Sohail Raja,
Associate Professor,
0321-6503456