Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 19: The Department of CTVS,SSH organised one day CME & workshop on ‘Vascular Anastomosis’. It was inagurated by the Principal and Dean Govt Medical College Jammu Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma.
While speaking on the occassion, she appreciated the efforts of the Department of CTVS & asked the organizing secretary Dr Arvind Kohli to make the course a regular affair for imparting these skills to the Post Graduates, Registrars and DNB trainees. She advised the Medical Superintendent Dr Manoj Chalortra to explore the feasibility of creating a skill lab in the SSH itself.
She advised the Department to make a roster for trainings in such a manner so that all the Post Graduates of Surgical disciplines after joining the Institute complete the course by the end of first year.
More than75 delegates registered for this course who include teaching tutorials by luminaries of vascular surgery from around world and India like Dr Nandan Haldipur and Dr Willy Pillai from Doncaster UK, Dr VS Bedi Chairman IVES from SGRH New Delhi and Dr.Gurjit Singh, ex HoD CTVS GMC, Jammu. The experts explained about principles of vascular suturing instruments and exposures of major vessels and vascular control and techniques of vascular suturing.
In the 2nd half, the delegates got hands on training on vascular suturing on work stations and were taught skills by faculty comprising of Dr I A Mir, Dr Arvind Kohli, Dr Shyam Singh, Dr Mohit Arora, Dr Vivek Gandotra, Dr Javed Bandey and Dr Rouf Gul.Dr Noor Ali Principal GMC Doda & HoD CTVS appreciated the efforts of the faculty for conducting the vascular course.