Multi disciplinary critical care units in the government hospitals in TN soon
Posted on: 18/Jul/2019 10:03:43 AM
In the state of Tamil Nadu, many road accidents take place is well known. To bring down the fatalities in these road accidents, multi disciplinary critical care units would be set up in the government hospitals in TN by the state government. This was announced by Mr. E. Palaniswami, chief minister of TN, yesterday in the assembly.
At a cost of Rs 40 crores, the state would also play its part in upgrading the infrastructure in the Government Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in K.K. Nagar in Chennai. To make sure that people discharged after trauma lead a normal peaceful life, rehabilitation care would be provided at the upgraded centre. This was confirmed by the chief minister of TN.
It should be taken into account that trauma care starts with 108 ambulances that brings trauma patients to the government hospitals. Under the Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Care Initiative, a special nurse receives the patient with team of doctors. It includes orthopedician, neurologist, post graduate students and resident doctors etc. At the triage room, the doctors quickly assess the patients and later categorize the patients into red (life threatening injuries), orange (injuries) and green (doesn’t need emergency care).
It must be noted that most green patients are discharged after minor treatments. Patients categorised as orange get specialised care and for those who are given the red tag beds in the unit are provided. It was later mentioned by a senior official that once patient’s conditioned is stabilized then they don’t need to be in the emergency rooms. Experts would be monitoring them intensively.
Information is multi-disciplinary ICUs would have specialists from many departments like neurology, pulmonology, nephrology, cardiology, anaesthesiology etc. These specialists would manage or care for the patients after an emergency surgery. Finally, patients would be sent to the concerned speciality ward after they recover and further care would be provided to them.
In the year 2017, more than 14,000 people lost their lives due to road accidents and the number has come down to 12,000 in 2018. This was pointed out by the state health minister, Mr. C. Vijayabaskar. The point is due to simple protocol changes in the emergency wards the percentage of mortality has come down by more than 8 %. According to a senior health official it is clear that the care stops when the patients leave the hospital. Required rehabilitation like physiotherapy etc is not given to the patients after they leave the hospital.
