American Heart Association accredited BLS & ACLS course concludes at DMCH

Ludhiana, February 19, 2017: Department of Anesthesiology successfully completed three-day Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Health Care Provider course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) with abatch of 50 participants from all specialties from February 17 to 19.
The training was conducted by Professor & Head of Anaesthesiology- Dr Sunil Katyal and Dr Anju Grewal, who is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Co-ordinator, DMCH AHA Training Site, along with AHA-accredited BLS & ACLS Instructors under the supervision, monitoring and coordination of International Training Centers and Life Savers Association, Delhi
The department had so far successfully organized around 50 AHA and non-AHA BLS and ACLS healthcare provider courses.
Principal Dr Sandeep Puri emphasized on the importance of acquiring standardized universally accepted life-saving skills, which should be made mandatory for all doctors, especially anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, emergency room doctors, critical-care specialists, interns and nursing staff. In his message, Dr Puri said that DMCH will soon take initiative to train all its doctors and nursing staff in such life saving courses.