AMU to start Airway Training School

Aligarh: Dr. S. Moied Ahmad from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will start and develop an Airway Training School under the aegis of the Indo-US Academic Council for Emergency and Trauma, a body comprising University of South Florida (USA), All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Medical Council of India (MCI) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).The Airway Training School will be organized once a year at the J.N. Medical College (AMU) and on a demand-itinerary will be organized at other medical colleges recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI). The main purpose of the school is to educate the doctors about anatomy and physiology of basic and advanced airway management in pediatrics, adult and geriatric age groups specially to manage airway in difficult and tricky situations. The trainee doctors would be informed about recent advances in airway management and settings of ventilators in patients with different diseases. This training would help the doctors of different specialities to combat the difficulties encountered in their day to day practice while managing patient with difficult airways. Dr. Ahmad, a reader and incharge of Intensive Care Unit of J.N. Medical College, was recently invited as a coordinator of the Workshop on Airway Management and Instructor of Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Critical Care Support in the International Congress of Critical Care Medicine held at Bhopal.

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