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The training was conducted by Dr Sunil Katyal, Prof and Head, Deptt of Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation, and Dr Anju Grewal, Associate Professor, and AHA-accredited ACLS Instructors under the supervision, monitoring and coordination of trained AHA accredited instructors from Maulana Azad Medical College and Hospital, which is AHA’s recognised satellite center of International Training Organisation site in India.
The department also successfully organised the first AHA-accredited BLS and ACLS Instructor course with a batch of 8 AHA-BLS and ACLS providers mainly from the Departments of Anaesthesiology, Medicine, Intensive care and other hospitals on January 8.
Dr Daljit Singh emphasised on the importance of acquiring standardized universally accepted life-saving skills, which should be made mandatory for all doctors, especially anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, emergency room doctors, critical-care specialists, interns, and nursing staff. Dr Rakesh Kumar, Regional AHA-Coordinator, MAMC, New Delhi said that the ACLS training programmes facilitate in recognizing and initiating early management of peri-arrest conditions and thereby help in preventing cardiac arrests.
Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which is a combination of BLS and ACLS is an important life-saving emergency first-aid skill practiced throughout the world for an unconscious victim on whom breathing and pulse can not be detected.
The course trains the health-care provider on the core basic skills needed to perform BLS and ACLS in accordance with the latest AHA-ACLS guidelines and algorithms. These guidelines highlight the importance of basic life-support CPR to patient survival; the integration of effective basic life support with advanced cardio-vascular life support interventions with a major emphasis on a universal compression to ventilation ratio of 30:2 in adults and effective chest compressions with minimal interruptions.
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