medicine in Makkah
100 specialists research first aid and heart attacks More than 100 Saudi doctors and consultants are discussing issues of first aid, spinal injuries and heart attacks, in a conference that is the first of its kind in Jeddah. The conference is organized by the Council for the Development of Health Services in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region in cooperation with King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, and is hosting it
Training and Research Center at King Fahd Hospital, Jeddah.
The conference, sponsored by Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, will start on April 8th for a period of three days, entitled "The First National Conference on Emergency Medicine", during which many working papers and related studies are discussed, and accompanied by it - in parallel with the scientific sessions. Workshops The latest methods of aid for critical cases that include difficult respiratory disabilities, as well as training in the speed and accuracy of ECG reading for these cases, are presented in it. From a number of Arab countries, and a large number of speakers within the Kingdom who are distinguished in dealing with critical cases address him, and they have been attracted from all sectors and health services in the Kingdom, including the Ministry of Health, universities, the military sector, the National Guard and the private sector, which adds great cohesion that enriches the scientific sessions of the conference. For his part, Dr. Fadel Abdin, a consultant and head of the orthopedic department at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah and head of the scientific committee of the conference, indicated that the activities will focus on spinal injuries, which represent 10 percent of all skeletal injuries. According to medical statistics, 48 percent of these injuries occur in the neck and 52 percent of them occur in the rest of the bones of the body. It also indicates that 25 percent of vertebral fractures affect the spinal cord, leading to paraplegia, triple paralysis, or almost complete. Dr. Abdeen stated that triple paralysis carries a rate of serious complications during the first weeks after injury, and therefore the patient suffers from a severe disability that leads to an increase in the cost of treatment by the Ministry of Health in his country. He said, "Unfortunately, all studies indicate that spinal injuries are usually for life and cannot be treated. Therefore, prevention of these injuries is the only solution to reduce the human and material losses of these injuries." On the other hand, Dr. Eman Ashkar, a consultant cardiologist and member of the scientific committee of the conference, and among the speakers in it, explained that the failure of heart muscle functions that occurs as a result of acute heart attack or myocardial fibrosis due to heart valve injury by regurgitation or otherwise. Critical cases in emergency medicine, the patient may reach a state of acute depression of blood circulation or acute edema of the lungs ».
