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Enaya Newspaper covered the events of the conference held by the Saudi Society for Emergency Medicine represented by the Emergency Medicine Program in Jeddah last Monday under the title of Developments in Emergency Medicine of the Brain and Neurology .. The meeting topics revolved around developments in emergency brain and nerve diseases and how to deal with them, diagnosis and treatment. The conference began with a speech delivered by the conference president, Dr. Ahmed Al-Rabghi, head of the emergency department at King Khalid National Guard Hospital in Jeddah, where he listed the achievements of the emergency medicine program since its establishment, and he was one of the first founders of this program in the Kingdom.
The General Supervisor of the conference, Dr. Abdul Hadi Tashkandi, General Supervisor of the Emergency Medicine Program in the Western Region, indicated that this conference is to and from the doctors residing in the Emergency Medicine Program in Jeddah. He explained that the level of Saudi doctors graduating from emergency medicine programs in the Kingdom is comparable to those of Canada and America graduates, if they are not better than them.
Dr. Hani Ahmed Baroum, consultant emergency medicine and head of the ambulatory services department at King Khalid Hospital in the National Guard in Jeddah, stated that the ambulance services in the Kingdom need great time and effort in order to keep pace with international standards.
Then Professor Abdul Rahim Al-Shehri, Consultant Neurologist and Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, gave a lecture on meningitis and stated that antibiotics in cases of acute bacterial meningitis and antivirals in viral encephalitis are considered the most important steps to avoid death.
Dr. Omar Wazzan, Consultant Neurosurgeon at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, spoke about the causes of peripheral and central nerve weakness, and mentioned that the patients (Gilin Barry Syndrome) and (Missinia Greaves) are among the most common diseases that affect the peripheral nervous system and it is not easy to diagnose it, but it should be From the list of suspected diseases.
Dr. Muhammad Jan, Consultant Pediatric Neurologist at King Abdulaziz University, dealt with the diseases of convulsions in children, and he elaborated on clarifying the differences between heat cramps and other convulsions that need other examinations, and explained that the probability of heat convulsion turning into epilepsy is less than 5%.
Professor Hussein Al-Qahtani, Consultant Neurologist at King Khalid Hospital in the National Guard in Jeddah and a professor at Umm Al-Qura University, concluded the morning session with a lecture entitled Causes of Secondary Headache and How to Treat It. And one of the most important points mentioned by the doctor is that headache is a complaint, not a diagnosis, and that its causes are many, but there are very serious causes that must be addressed immediately.
Then a workshop was held on how to locate the brain injury through clinical examination headed by Dr. Ahmed Attar, Consultant Neurology at King Khalid Hospital in the National Guard in Jeddah and the General Supervisor of the Neurology Program in the Western Region.
Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Shami, Consultant Radiology, specializing in brain and nerve rays, at King Khalid Hospital in the National Guard in Jeddah, headed a workshop entitled How to Diagnose by CT and Magnetic Brain Scan.
The conference was attended by a number of consultants, resident doctors, and a group of nurses who expressed their admiration for this conference. Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Shehri, one of the resident physicians in the emergency medicine program in Jeddah, stated that he hopes that there will be many similar conferences that raise the scientific level of doctors and help exchange experiences between different specialties. He thanked the conference president and the general supervisor of the conference for adopting such an idea, wishing them more .
