Conference on advances in critical care

Hyderabad: REFLECT 2017, a two-day conference at Citizens Hospital on advances in critical care attended by 300 doctors from across the country, concluded with in-depth reviews and panel discussions on various advances in treatment of emergency and ICU cases of all speciality patients. Talks were held about various clinical practices of bringing out critical patient safely from ventilator to normal condition.

“Discussions were held on identifying the sick infectious patient in the ICU, treatment with correct antibiotics, stopping antibiotics early. Emphasis should be laid on not using antibiotics unnecessarily as the excessive use of antibiotic may cause worse complications leading to death of patients. 

We treat the patients presently on the data available from USA and Europe. We need to have our own studies to treat our patients,” said Dr Srinivas Jakkinaboina, Head –Critical Care Medicine, Citizens Hospitals, who visualised and organised the two-day conference in association with ISCCM seeing the importance and keeping in mind the relevance of this discussion on advances in critical care and ICU treatment which would benefit the patients. 

Clinical and medical experts discussed on varied topics of treating all conditions at ICU in detail like putting patient on advanced therapy like ECMO, treating infections during ECMO, kidney problems and how to dialyse the patients, 

using ultrasound safely in the sick patients who cannot be transported to CT scan, treating the uncontrolled bleeding post-delivery patients, and treating head injury and stroke patients with advanced technology for quick recovery.