Written by INDUS MED NEWS 6 November, 2022 3:44 pm .
INDUSEM Leader and ACEE Star Researcher from JMMCRI Emergency Medicine Thrissur, Kerala Dr. Siju Abraham recently spoke at the 2022 World Stroke Congress opened in Singapore on 26th Oct. Over 4200 delegates from 104 countries, participated in this global academic event.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, commented that stroke is a perfect example of the need for countries to make a paradigm shift towards promoting health and preventing disease by addressing its root causes. He followed by mentioning that, “The world needs your voices as advocates for preventing cardiovascular disease through healthier environments and reduced health inequities along with improving access to rehabilitation services.”
Prof Tan Chorh Chuan, Chief Health Scientist and Executive Director, Office of Healthcare Transformation, Ministry of Health, Singapore said in his opening remarks, “Stroke can be prevented and indeed the World Stroke Organization has a vision of life free from stroke. In fact, four out of five strokes are preventable through early diagnosis and treatment of the risk factors.”
Dr Anthony Rudd (UK), Dr Stephen Davis (Australia), co-chaired the World Stroke Organisation taskforce for prehospital Care (WSOTPC) presentation on Challenges and Future Directions for Pre-Hospital Stroke Care.
Dr. A. Rudd, began by noting that “The very fact that we are treating so few people proportionately with Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy is very largely down to the fact that we perhaps have not focussed enough on prehospital care and getting people to hospital quickly”. Stephen Davis (Australia) presented the Current Status and Barriers to Pre-Hospital Stroke Care in Metropolitan Regions and Geoffrey Donnan (Australia) on the Developments in Lightweight Imaging and Digital Technology for Rural and Remote Locations. Dr Renyu Liu (USA) joined the event remotely with his talk on What Is New in the Prehospital Stroke Care?
Dr Siju V Abraham (India) spoke on Problems and Solutions Delivering Prehospital Stroke Care in India.
In low, middle and high income countries, WSOTPC analyze the problems existing in the current pre-hospital care, develop audit standards for prehospital care and identify what the key measures that are needed to help with quality improvement and ultimately develop a document for standards of care for prehospital management.
The World Stroke Organization Taskforce for Prehospital care (WSOTPC), the Coalition of the Special Taskforces for Stroke (CSTS) and the Indian Emergency Medicine fraternity under the Academic College of Emergency Experts (ACEE) India and Emergency Medicine Association India (EMA India) work synchronously with overlapping objectives to improve stroke prehospital care in India.
“Siju is MCI Recognized Emergency Medicine Residency Trained, Board Certified MD in Emergency Medicine who has embraced Academic Emergency Medicine as a career. Research and Innovation is an important part of the academic career. Siju has taken the right steps and served as a role model for all researchers in making.
We at INDUSEM and ACEE are very proud of him. My Best Wishes are always with him” said INDUSEM CEO and President of ACEE Dr. Sagar Galwankar.
About Dr. Siju Abraham:
Dr. Siju V Abraham M.D (Emergency Medicine), is the Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, at Jubilee Mission Hospital, Medical College & Research Institute Jubilee Mission P. O., Thrissur, Kerala, India.
He is an acclaimed researcher and an academician of high repute. He is the proud recipient of the INDUSEM Dr. Kelly P O’Keefe Academician of the Year Award for the year 2018. He also won the Young Investigator Award at the 39th International Congress of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT) held at the Stazione Marittima in Naples, Italy in 2019
About WSOTPC:
The mission of WSO taskforce for prehospital Care (WSOTPC) is to reduce the global burden of stroke with a special focus in prehospital stroke care. The WSOPTC will work with WSO Stroke Awareness Campaign to improve stroke awareness and to work with relevant parties including the Coalition of Special Taskforces for Stroke (CSTS) to define the key issues related to stroke prehospital care that need work to improve stroke prehospital care. These include the domains of professional awareness of stroke, optimizing pre-hospital processes of care, development of novel tools to support better quality care, advocate international, national and local policy improvement, and support the optimal transition from prehospital care to in-hospital care. The WSOTPC is created with inclusiveness and diversity as fundamental priorities. The co-chairs of the taskforce are Dr. Renyu Liu from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA and Dr. Jing Zhao, from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. The current members include Dr. Anthony Rudd from King’s College, London, UK; Dr. Gary Ford from University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Mr. David Waters from Council of Ambulance Authorities, New Zealand & Australia; Dr. Dou Li from Beijing Emergency Medical Center, Beijing, China; Ms. Rita Melifonwu from Stroke Action Nigeria, Nigeria; Dr. Grethe Andersen from Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and Dr. Siju V Abraham from Jubilee Mission Hospital and Medical College & Research Institute and clinical research lead of the Emergency Medicine Association India.
About CSTS
CSTS is a non-profit international organization with the goal in improving stroke care by raising stroke awareness in a global scale using novel strategies including Stroke 120 for China and Stroke 112 for countries and regions where 112 is used as an emergency phone number, & critical issues related stroke prehospital care. The mission of CSTS is to reduce stroke mortality & disability, & improve patient experience & outcome by uniting stroke related taskforces across the world with an emphasis on stroke prehospital care. We will work jointly with regional organizations, health professionals, government officials, stroke survivors, & the public worldwide to improve the quality of care that stroke patients receive. For more Information: http://csts.stroke112.org/
About INDUSEM
The INDUSEM mission is to envision and implement the future of Patient Care across the world. The partnership brings together Expert Educators, Inquisitive Innovators and Physicians supporting Safe Patient Care across India, United States and the World. INDUSEM is the Top International Partnership across the World and brings together Institutions, Individuals and Initiatives focused on improving patient care globally. Till date INDUSEM has reached over 50,000 Experts and its reach continues to grow daily. For more information, visit www.indusem.org
About ACEE
The Academic College of Emergency Experts was established by Leaders of INDUSEM to create a guild of expert clinicians who are have a mastery at providing safe patient care with high quality therapeutics based on latest evidence based medicine. The only Unique College in Asia ACEE only bestows affiliation after a rigorous coaching and testing process hereby maintaining its high standards of commitment to education and excellence. It surpasses the erstwhile ideology of existing academic colleges where affiliation is based on recommendation. The College offers its Fellowship in various areas of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Pediatrics. Toxicology, Emergency Nursing etc. For More Information, Visit www.acee-india.org
Related News: https://www.indusem.org/blog/siju-wins-naples/
More Information:
- Zhao J, Ren L, Abraham SV, Li D, Kung D, Chao A, Ching FM, Liu R. The Stroke Prehospital Delay Summary Statement: A Global Battlefield. Transl Perioper & Pain Med 2019; 6 (1): 20-26. Abstract.
- https://www.world-stroke.org/news-and-blog/news/new-wso-taskforce-for-prehospital-care
