A two-day workshop on “Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS 2020)” organised by the Department of Trauma and Emergency of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar began on Saturday.
The programme is intended to enrich knowledge and inspire the participants to maximally utilise the USG for benefit of the patients at various situations. Faculties from the AIIMS, New Delhi, the PGI, Chandigarh and the AIIMS, Patna would attend as resource persons.
Inaugurating the programme, AIIMS BBSR Director Prof Gitanjali Batmanabane appreciated the organising team and emphasised to be conversant with advancement of technology and use it for betterment of patients at need.
AIIMS BBSR Medical Superintendent Prof Sachidananda Mohanty mentioned about the much use of USG at emergency facility. Many specialists need to be trained in USG and able to perform the safe, non-invasive, fast, repeatable and accurate procedures to save lives at acute conditions, he added.
Organising secretary Dr Sangeeta Sahoo said the department is planning to hold such programmes in future so that the specialists at district hospitals can also carry out USG for the betterment of patients.
More than 50 participants of various specialised discipline from SCBMCH, VIMSAR, IMS and SUM hospital and other medical colleges and hospitals of Odisha will get training on portable Ultrasonography.