A "remote" seminar discussed treatment methods that can be provided to coronavirus infected people when they arrive at a hospital’s emergency, and how to deal with critical cases and help them breathe.
Organised by the Bahrain Association of Emergency Medicine at Bahrain Medical Society the seminar lasted for about two hours in which nearly 50 doctors and interested persons from Bahrain and the region took part.
The latest medical developments in the field of tackling coronavirus were reviewed, especially in terms of emergency medicine, family medicine and general medicine.
The discussion also covered the steps that hospitals must take to strengthen preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic or any pandemic in general in the framework of "Disaster Medicine", and the treatment protocol issued by the National Committee responsible for tackling the virus in Bahrain.
Measures taken by China and WHO were also discussed in the seminar, especially the measures taken when the virus was first discovered, and the latest information related to vaccines and methods of examination and analysis. The seminar also examined the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals from a psychological and social point of view.
The seminar was attended by the Chairman of Bahrain Medical Society and the Emergency Medicine Consultant Dr Ghada Al Qassim, and the President of the Bahrain Association of Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Consultant, Dr Salah Al-Ghanem.
Many experts participated in the seminar, such as the consultant of emergency medicine and the vice president of Bahrain Association of Emergency Medicine, Dr Amjad Obaid, and the consultant infectious disease, Dr Tariq Al Musawi, who is also specialised in the field of Intensive Care Medicine, and Dr Khaled Al Salem, an emergency doctor from Saudi Arabia.
Dr Al Ghanem said that this seminar comes within the framework of the Society’s keenness to follow up the latest developments in the field of tackling coronavirus and to use the expertise of doctors from different specialties to create an understanding of the best ways to provide health and medical care for the infected people.
"COVID-19 is a new virus and this is the challenge that everyone faces, and there are no fixed scientific methods and theories in fighting it, so we tried to combine infectious diseases, intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine in this seminar, with the aim of exchanging views and experiences, and developing our knowledge and understanding of it," Dr Al Ghanem said concluding his statement. -- Tradearabia News Service
