Media Release
Mangaluru, Sep 15: An 'Emergency Life Support' workshop was held at Father Muller Medical College Hospital under theme ‘Time Saved is Life Saved’.
The savior group on September 15 organized a workshop on emergency life support at Father Muller Hospital conference hall.
The workshop was conducted as part of the conference ‘Pre-Hospital Care and Medical Emergencies’, which is being held on September 15 and 16 at Town Hall.
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About 30 delegates of various professions were the beneficiaries of the training programme.
The workshop was an initiative taken to train the first responders on life-saving techniques and especially to encourage the layman’s role in life-saving in cases of emergency situations.
A hands-on training was given to the participants on important topics like resuscitation from cardiac arrest (CPR), first-aid techniques for bleeding, fracture and sprain. Discussions on providing first aid in snake bite, fits, shock, anaphylaxis, asthma attack and others were held with demonstrations.
Dr Shreedhara Arabratha, dept of Paediatrics, Dr Chirag, dept of Surgery, Dr Rithesh, dept of Anaesthesia, Dr Shailaja, dept of Anaesthesia, Dr Rashmi Alva, dept of Paediatrics and Dr Franko, dept of Orthopedics were the resource persons for the training programme.
The programme was well appreciated by the delegates.