DUBAI: The 7th Emirates Intensive Care Conference (ECCC) has started in Dubai, highlighting the use of latest innovations and technology in critical care including use of automated doctor known as Robodoc to evaluate and follow up on critically ill patients.
The three-day conference is being held in conjunction with the 3rd Asia Africa Conference of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and the 7th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (IPACCMS) Congress.
Organised by the Emirates Intensive Care Society (EICS) and the International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (EICS) the ECCC is supported by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences.
Qadhi Al Murooshid Director General of the DHA, said, “The conference brings together international and national experts in the field of critical care to and provides them with a platform to discuss state-of-the-art information to help improve the standard of critical care provided to patients.”
“The DHA has built various Intensive Care Units (ICUs) across its hospitals, where we have trained personnel, state-of-the-art medical equipment and this has helped us reduce our mortality rates in ICUs from 60 per cent to 35 per cent, which is less than the international bench mark of 40 to 50 per cent,” he added.
Dr Hussain Nasser Al Rahma, President of the EICS and the EICS, and Chairman of the Emirates Intensive Care Society and Head of ICU at Dubai Hospital, said that the field of critical care is of great importance to help alleviate the suffering of trauma patients.
“Critical care is a fast advancing speciality and is dependent on highly skilled professionals, latest technology and integration of services to achieve the best patient outcomes and to lower mortality rates,” he added.
According to him, Dubai is currently the benchmark in this region and one of the leaders in critical care, we have the latest equipment and skilled medical staff and we strongly focus on training students
Source Link: http://www.medics.com/
The three-day conference is being held in conjunction with the 3rd Asia Africa Conference of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and the 7th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (IPACCMS) Congress.
Organised by the Emirates Intensive Care Society (EICS) and the International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (EICS) the ECCC is supported by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences.
Qadhi Al Murooshid Director General of the DHA, said, “The conference brings together international and national experts in the field of critical care to and provides them with a platform to discuss state-of-the-art information to help improve the standard of critical care provided to patients.”
“The DHA has built various Intensive Care Units (ICUs) across its hospitals, where we have trained personnel, state-of-the-art medical equipment and this has helped us reduce our mortality rates in ICUs from 60 per cent to 35 per cent, which is less than the international bench mark of 40 to 50 per cent,” he added.
Dr Hussain Nasser Al Rahma, President of the EICS and the EICS, and Chairman of the Emirates Intensive Care Society and Head of ICU at Dubai Hospital, said that the field of critical care is of great importance to help alleviate the suffering of trauma patients.
“Critical care is a fast advancing speciality and is dependent on highly skilled professionals, latest technology and integration of services to achieve the best patient outcomes and to lower mortality rates,” he added.
According to him, Dubai is currently the benchmark in this region and one of the leaders in critical care, we have the latest equipment and skilled medical staff and we strongly focus on training students
Source Link: http://www.medics.com/
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