Bengaluru: For the first time ever in the country, doctors will be trained in treating patients mid-air and even perform a cesarean procedure or trauma thoracotomy (treatment for stab or bullet injuries).
International Critical Care Air Transfer Team (ICATT), a Bengaluru-based air ambulance service is
all set to launch its first batch of training programme FAM (Fellow in Aviation Medicine) from
January 26, 2019.
The 12-month long training will prepare the “flying doctors” through the FAM, which is a highly
specialised training programme for doctors with career goals in advance emergency medicine,
anaesthesia, critical care and trauma care including pre-hospital emergency medicine.
According to ICATT, Fellow in Aviation Medicine is the only dedicated structured training programme for helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) as well as critical care air transfers delivered by the best in the world. Speaking about the training programme, Shalini Nalwad, co-founder of ICATT said, There is if the “skill is not taken to the site,” lives are lost on the way reaching the hospitals.
“In India, one person dies every four minutes in a road accident and 80% of them on the National
Highway. About 40% of the lives could have been saved, had the ambulance reached on time or
the person got treatment at the accident site. In order to cater to these emergencies, there is a
need for doctors with specialisation to reach the patient rather than shiing the patients to the
nearest hospital,” added Shalini.
She said that at the moment, only primary level of emergency care is given where ambulances
reach the patient and shi them to the nearest hospital. But many a time, patients reach the
wrong hospital and lose a lot of time in the transit and with that the golden hour.
23/01/19 Poornima Nataraj/Deccan Herald
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International Critical Care Air Transfer Team (ICATT), a Bengaluru-based air ambulance service is
all set to launch its first batch of training programme FAM (Fellow in Aviation Medicine) from
January 26, 2019.
The 12-month long training will prepare the “flying doctors” through the FAM, which is a highly
specialised training programme for doctors with career goals in advance emergency medicine,
anaesthesia, critical care and trauma care including pre-hospital emergency medicine.
According to ICATT, Fellow in Aviation Medicine is the only dedicated structured training programme for helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) as well as critical care air transfers delivered by the best in the world. Speaking about the training programme, Shalini Nalwad, co-founder of ICATT said, There is if the “skill is not taken to the site,” lives are lost on the way reaching the hospitals.
“In India, one person dies every four minutes in a road accident and 80% of them on the National
Highway. About 40% of the lives could have been saved, had the ambulance reached on time or
the person got treatment at the accident site. In order to cater to these emergencies, there is a
need for doctors with specialisation to reach the patient rather than shiing the patients to the
nearest hospital,” added Shalini.
She said that at the moment, only primary level of emergency care is given where ambulances
reach the patient and shi them to the nearest hospital. But many a time, patients reach the
wrong hospital and lose a lot of time in the transit and with that the golden hour.
23/01/19 Poornima Nataraj/Deccan Herald
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