The Qatar Critical Care Society - a forum launched recently - aims to bring all critical care practitioners in the country together and provide the latest cutting-edge scientific knowledge in the diagnosis and management of critically ill and injured patients.
Critical care services have improved and expanded tremendously over the years and the new forum will further strengthen the delivery of care in this ever changing field, said Dr. Ibrahim Mohamed Fawzy (pictured), Director of Critical Care at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
“Critical care is by far the most sophisticated speciality in medicine with major attention needed to details, a few seconds can cost lives. We witnessed major revolution in the diagnosis and management ranging from simple organ support all the way to artificial organ support such as artificial heart and lung implementation,” he told The Peninsula.
“Critical care services in Qatar started in 1978 with two beds and has expanded vastly by number of beds and healthcare professionals have increased. We established the Qatar Critical Care Society as a very powerful care group to unite all critical care providers, standardize the services and share experiences,” he added.
The Qatar Critical Care Society will further enhance the good relationship with the Ministry of Public Health to support the standardisation of care across the country, train the healthcare providers and work as a platform to start research. It will also train nurses and physicians to conduct research as it will help to progress skills and knowledge of clinicians.
“Our ultimate aim is to provide a better services to the patients. We aim to bring families and patients together especially those who have survived severe illnesses and share their experience to improve patient physician relationship,” said Dr Fawzy.
The Qatar Critical Care Society was launched during the first Qatar Critical Care Conference held in early November. The conference gathered hundreds of local and international experts in the field of specialised care for people who have experienced critical care illness such as cardiac arrest, severe multi-organs dysfunction, among other who required artificial organs support.
The Critical Care units across HMC provides care to all types of critically ill patients who require close monitoring or intensive care. Critical Care Units work closely with other Intensive Care Units and all specialties in across HMC for the transfer, admission, discharge, referral, diagnosis and treatment of patients. “HMC provides same level of critical care and services across all hospitals,” said Dr Fawzy.
