Advance Trauma Life Support (ACLS) course conducted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) in collaboration with American Heart Association was concluded here on Tuesday. The course was attended by civil and army medical teachers and specialists including Colonel Anjum Qadri, Colonel Musharraf Imam, Dr Shahid Sarwar, Dr Asif Humayun and Dr Saira Shoaib.
Dr Amber Abdul Hameed Abdul Aziz, Director Emergency Medicine, King Saud Medical Complex, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along with Professor Khalid Masood Gondal, Regional Director participated in the concluding ceremony and exchanged views. Professor Mahmood Ayyaz, Director ATLS, Dr Kahkashan Zahid, Director, ACLS and Dr Abrar Ashraf Ali, Co-ordinator said on the occasion that these courses are mandatory in America and other developed countries.
In the leadership of Professor Zafar Ullah Chaudhry, President, CPSP, said that doctors are being imparted training of international course on permanent basis in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore Centres. In future, these courses will also be conducted at thirteen regional centres of the country through which 13000 under training specialist doctors of CPSP will be trained, they said.
Professor Khalid Masood Gondal said on the occasion that CPSP is the first in Saarc region conducting ATLS and ACLS courses. Through ACLS course, doctors are imparted training of international standard about the patients of accidents and cardiac emergency, he added. This course is indirectly beneficial for heart patients as this course is based on diagnosis and treatment of those factors, which are the basic causes of heart attack and heart failure.