Dr.Srinivasa Raju

  WHY emergency medicine is crucial ? Emergency Medicine is a specialty, which encompasses practice based on knowledge and skills essential for the prevention, diagnosis & management of acute/ urgent illnesses and injuries. It incorporates all age patients presenting with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioral disorders.  Hence, Emergency Medicine has a broad spectrum of clinical presentations which includes resuscitation and medical care necessitating immediate medical attention. Furthermore, it also provides episodic primary care to patients whose primary care providers are unavailable during peculiar hours of the day.                 A competent Emergency Medicine doctor requires a broad field of knowledge and procedural skills which often include some lifesaving surgical procedures, trauma resuscitation, advanced cardiovascular life support, advanced airway management, and the use of point-of-care ultrasound. A well-trained emergency doctor should have the

Laws governing professional misconduct by doctors The Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 empowers MCI (Medical Council of India) to make regulations for the professional conduct of doctors.  The Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette, and Ethics) Regulations, notified by the MCI in 2002 governs the regulation of professional conduct, ethics, and etiquettes for registered medical professionals.   Inclusive Definition of Professional Misconduct in the Regulation The regulation prescribes an inclusive definition of professional misconduct. It means that the regulation does not contain all the instances of misconduct. So, different acts of misconduct given in the regulation are only extensive, not exhaustive.  off late some hospitals are promoting their services under the guise of widely organizing training sessions and camps to unqualified medical practitioners(quacks),which is also professional misconduct and unethical. Association with incompetent persons Enabli

  National Family Health Survey-5:  NFHS-5  reveals overall improvement of health indicators for comparing to those of NFHS-4 estimates for 131 indicators. The all India estimates for these 131 indicators was released in two phases covering all States and Union Territories and their districts. o    what is NFHS?    The  NFHS  is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. o     Why NFHS > o      NFHS-5 data will be useful in setting benchmarks and examining the progress the health sector has made over time. ·           Besides providing evidence for the effectiveness of ongoing programmes, the data from NFHS-5 help in identifying the need for new programmes with an area specific focus and identifying groups that are most in need of essential services. ·           It provides an indicator for tracking 30  Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)   that the country aims to achieve by 2030. o