JNMC Anaesthesiologist delivers lectures in Shillong conference
Aligarh : Prof S Moied Ahmed, Senior faculty member, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care and ICU In-Charge, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) talked about requisites for establishing airway in patients with cut throat injuries and methods for controlling life-threatening, irregular heartbeats.
He was delivering lectures on ‘Emergency Management of Patients with Cut Throat Injury’ and ‘Recent Update on Defibrillation’ in the recently held 69th Annual National Conference of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists at Shillong, Meghalaya.
Speaking on cut throat injuries, he pointed out: Airway trauma is rare but life threatening injury. The first priority is to establish and maintain a stable airway. Early decision and intervention to secure the airway, not only permits a controlled milieu for resuscitation but is also prudent to avoid any catastrophic airway compromise. Immediate care and adequate surgical repair are vital for treating such life threatening injuries”.
“Maintaining airway, preventing hypoxia, stabilizing haemodynamics and post-operative psychological derangement management are the major challenges in the treatment of patients with slit throats”, stressed Prof S Moied.
He also made the details of advances in defibrillation intelligible to the conference participants and reviewed updates in cardiac external defibrillation technologies.
Prof S Moied said that a defibrillator device analyzes the heart rhythm in people who are experiencing cardiac arrest and when appropriate, it delivers an electrical shock to the heart to restore its normal rhythm.
He spoke about how shock is administered by applying pads and the ‘Double Sequence Defibrillation’ in which shocks are given in sequence with two different defibrillators to improve the chances of reverting.
Prof S Moied is the President of the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), UP State Chapter; President of Indian Society of Critical Medicine (ISCCM), UP and UK State and the Vice President of All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA).