Pulmonary Critical Care Update - 2007-Inaurgurated
Chairman of Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Nalla G. Palaniswami addressing the inaugural of the `Pulmonary Critical Care Update - 2007' in the city on Sunday.Dissemination of latest information on advances in pulmonary emergencies and periodical update for doctors in handling such situations was stressed at the Pulmonary Critical Care Update organised by Kovai Medical Center and Hospital here on Sunday.Hospital chairman Nalla G. Palaniswami emphasised the need for updating hospitals and individual doctors in the peripheral areas on the advances made in handling such emergencies.Scientific sessions included one that was addressed by Consultant Intensivist from Sundaram Medical Foundation in Chennai Ram E. Rajagopalan.A release from the hospital said that critical care had its origin during the polio epidemic of 1952 in Copenhagen (capital of Denmark) when patients were shifted to a common location for specialised care, including use of ventilator.
Hundreds of patients were said to have developed respiratory paralysis and the ventilator facilities at the infectious diseases hospital were not sufficient to meet the patient flow.About 200 medical students were called in to provide round-the-clock manual ventilation using a rubber bag attached to a tracheostomy tube.Some patients were ventilated in this way for several weeks.Intensive care management of pulmonary problems still occupied a prime place in the management of critically ill persons.
