Advanced Trauma Life Support program graduates first batch

KUWAIT: Trauma and severe injuries specialist at the Amiri Hospital Dr Raed Sayyed Hashim said the Amiri Training Center has successfully graduated their first batch of students from the Advanced Trauma Life Support program. The program is accredited by the American College of Surgeons, and organized by the Life Science Academy. Fourteen participants from public hospitals including eight doctors from Amiri attended the ceremony.

Hashism said the programs aim at reducing the death rate resulting from accidents through the application of actual practices of heart resuscitation. It also covers topics on how to deal with life threatening critical injuries, until the case reaches specialized centers. He said the program strengthens and instills principles of evaluating the injured and set the administrative practices of the shock as well as skills necessary to deal with victims of accidents, by specialists in this field such as emergency doctors, health care providers, surgeons and anesthetics. He said such programs are important in the majority of Gulf countries. It is headed by Saudi Arabia which approved it in 1991.

He said doctors go for these courses out of their humanitarian and professional conviction to enhance their skills in order to rescue the injured and increase their success rate of survival. Hashim lauded the role of the life science academy and its continued efforts to improve performance and enhance the quality of medical services through accredited training programs that meet local requirements.

Meanwhile, Director of Training at the LSA Mohammad Al-Khlaifi said the academy is keen on providing the most recent training programs and workshops that make a quality move in the medical field through cooperation with specialized international centers. He said the Academy held 15 “ATLS” programs, and graduated 200 doctors during the past four years. The training plan is on the Academy official site, and activities of it can be followed through social media.

It is worth mentioning that the LSA trained more than 4,000 doctors, nurses and allied teams at the government and private hospitals.