AIIMS to train all staff in CPR with made in India courses

NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (

AIIMS

) is all set to train and certify its doctors, paramedical staff and employees with

made in India

CPR courses for cardiac arrest treatment.
In a move to become a 100% Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation(CPR) trained institute, the institute signed an MOU with Indian Resuscitation Council Federation (IRCF) on Wednesday in presence of its director M Srinivas.

It will be a continuous process of training, said authorities.
According to doctors, in recent times it has been observed that many youngsters are also getting cardiac arrest due to lifestyle medications, stressful environment. Hence, this is a timely initiative by the AIIMS and IRCF.
Dr. Shailendra Kumar from department of Anaesthesiology who will be leading the program, said, these courses have been developed with experts from all over the country and are made considering our cultural and socioeconomic background. This initiative will ensure these lifesaving skills spread widely and benefit our countrymen.

Giving details about the duration of the course, head of anaesthesiology, pain medicine and critical care, Dr Lokesh Kashyap, said the four-hour course is designed for layperson, while a one-day course for paramedics and a two-day course for medicos.
Prof. Rakesh Garg, Scientific Director, IRCF, said that cardiac arrest can happen at any place. “In such a situation, a nearby person should do CPR. Usually the success rate of

CPR

decreases by 7-10 percent with each minute and it should be started as early as possible, within the initial few minutes of the arrest.”
Being a life saving procedure, it has to be done technically in the right way and hence it requires some training. “Since this is skill based training, just learning or seeing is not enough. It needs to be practiced on a training mannequin, hence training is required,” he said, adding that the institute has taken an initiative to teach all its employees to make a 100 percent trained CPR sector.
He further said that though many guidelines are available internationally, it has been well recognised that guidelines should be as per the local environment. IRCF has made guidelines which are well suited for the Indian community.