| Sultanate plans to set up cardiac arrest registry |
Oommen John P
MUSCAT Plans are on the anvil to set up a cardiac arrest registry in the Sultanate, which will not only help in collating data about cardiac arrest cases but also help in knowing the survival rates, Dr Kadhim Bin Jaffer Sulaiman, Oman Heart Association (OHA) vice-president and National CPR committee chairman said.
“At present, we have data only at the hospital level, but not at the national level.
We want to have a national registry so that we can collect data about cardiac arrest cases over a period of time such as six months or one year,” he told Oman Tribune on the sidelines of the First Middle East AHA resuscitation conference that was held under the auspices of HE Dr Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Sa’eedi, Minister of Health, at Al Bustan Palace Hotel on Sunday.
OHA organised the conference jointly with the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Committee of the Ministry of Health. Oman Tribune and Al Watan were the media sponsors of the conference.
“This is the first Middle East AHA resuscitation conference conducted in the Middle East by American Heart Association. Such conferences are not only important for doctors, but also for nurses and paramedics to learn about the latest trends,” he said.
The OHA has strong links with AHA. And AHA has already accredited OHA as an international training centre. “We do hope that they will accredit more training centres of OHA,” Sulaiman said. “We are actually trying to train our people specially those in critical areas such as emergency and ICU,” he said.
Sulaiman said that more than 1,200 doctors and health workers from various countries registered at the conference.
An overview of the updated guidelines on basic life support, advanced cardiac life support or adults and paediatric life support was presented at the conference, Sulaiman added.
Over 15 papers were discussed in four sessions on the themes such as post resuscitation care, neonatal resuscitation; ethics of resuscitation, chest compression, paediatric advanced cardiovascular life support and ongoing clinical trials in CPR.
Michael Sayre, Conference Co-Chairman and Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University in his presentation on ‘Adult advanced cardiovascular life support: the science,’ said that survival rates of cardiac arrest cases have impr- oved over the years.
It is largely due to the effectiveness of the system of care, he said.
Vinay Nadkarni, Endowed Chair, Associate Professor Anesthesia, critical care and paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Co. Chairman, International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation spoke on In-Hospital Resuscitation. Several others, including experts from US delivered lectures at the conference.
Oman Tribune
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