STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Department of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS) of Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu organised a CME programme to commemorate DVT awareness month in collaboration with distinguished faculty from Department of Endovascular Surgery, Medanta Hospital Gurugram and Medical Education Unit of GMC Jammu.
The CME was chaired by Principal and Dean GMC, Jammu, Dr Sunanda Raina and the visiting faculty included Dr Rajiv Parakh Chairman of Peripheral and Endovascular Surgery and Dr Tapish Sahu Senior Consultant from Medanta Hospital.
CME Coordinator, Dr Arvind Kohli emphasised the importance regarding awareness about deep vein thrombosis because it is one of the leading causes of mortality around the world with about 30,00,000 mortalities one should be aware of measures to prevent deep vein thrombosis to happen for which the best remedy is to walk a lot. In addition to this one should know about the risk factors which are important for development of Deep Vein Thrombosis. Keeping these risk factors in mind one can prevent DVT to happen.
Dr Rajiv Parakh delivered a lecture on Deep Vein Thrombosis Management along with impact of newer anticoagulants in management of DVT and their efficiency in managing them. He also elaborated upon the newer modalities for surgical management of DVT, May Thunner Syndrome, IVC Filters and Venous Stents. Dr Tapish Sahu spoke about management of Dysvascular Diabetic Foot and measures to prevent amputations in these diabetic feet patients. The event was also associated for elaborating the details regarding the forthcoming Silver Jubilee meeting of Vascular Society of India to be organized by Department of CTVS at Jammu from October 3 till 6. Dr Kohli who is the Organizing Secretary of VSICON2018 detailed about the meeting which is going to have significant international delegate participation. Present amongst others were Dr Gurjit Singh, Dr Ghanshyam Dev, Dr Annil Mahajan, Dr Sushil Sharma, Dr S.K Bali, Dr Samriti Gulati, Dr Anil Gupta, Dr I.A Mir, Dr Mohit Arora, Dr Vivek Gandotra, Dr Babar, senior faculty members from other departments postgraduates students and staff. Dr Noor Ali, HoD CTVS presented vote of thanks.
