Chennai: When a middle-aged woman suffered a heart attack on a bus recently, everyone seemed helpless but for a fireman, SenthilKumaran, who administered emergency care and saved her. Kumaran had undergone asimulation training on emergency care.
Doctors at SRM Medical Centre for simulation insist on the importance of learning emergency procedures. Apart from making it compulsory for nurses, medical students and optional for non-clinical students, they have trained more than 200 fire and rescue service personnel in emergency care.
The hospital uses 'high fidelity human patient simulators' that produce visual and auditory physiologic signs such as pulse, breathing sounds and pupil response. "The Medical Council of India has made it mandatory for medical students to undergo simulation training and it would be part of the curriculum soon," said the doctor. |