Muscat Private Hospital to conduct CME on Challenging Sepsis - Latest Management Approach

To inform people and doctors more about severe sepsis and septic shock, Dr Swatantra Mishra, head of Critical Care services, MPH, plans to conduct a CME on 'Challenging Sepsis - Latest Management Approach'.

Sepsis is a serious medical condition characterised by a whole-body inflammatory; caused only secondary to infection.

It is broadly defined as the presence of various pus-forming and other pathogenic organisms, or their toxins, in the blood or tissues.

While the term sepsis is frequently used to refer to septicemia (blood poisoning), septicemia is but one type of sepsis. It is caused by bacterial infection that can originate anywhere in the body.

The most common sites include the kidneys, the liver or the gall bladder, the bowel, the skin and the lungs.

Dr Mishra informs,

"Sepsis is a life-threatening illness. Direct effect of infection and your body's response to a bacterial infection usually cause it. Your immune system goes into overdrive, overwhelming normal processes in your blood. The result is that small blood clots form, blocking blood flow to vital organs. This can lead to multi organ failure. Babies, old people and those with weakened immune systems are most likely to get sepsis. But even healthy people can become deathly ill from it. A quick diagnosis can be crucial, because one third of people who get sepsis die from it."

Gerard Strong, Hospital Director, MPH, added, "Since the condition is not very obvious, it is not often diagnosed at an early stage. Considering that the diagnosis is often delayed, it is usually treated in a hospital intensive care unit (ICU). IV antibiotics and fluids may be given to try to knock out the infection and to keep blood pressure from dropping too low. Dr Mishra, who is an expert in the field, will help people and doctors identify important sign and symptoms for diagnosis and recovery."

Hailing from one of the top institutions in India, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr Swatantra Mishra is the first DM in cardiac anaesthesia in the world and is the head of the critical care services at MPH.

He has more than 6,000 open heart procedures to his credit with special expertise in neonates who weigh less than 1.5kgs as well as cardiac transplantation.

Dr. Mishra is also an active member of many national and international societies including the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and is a regular invitee to national and international scientific forums to deliver talks and CMEs.

Muscat Private Hospital is Muscat's premier private medical facility. Strategically located in Baushar, the Hospital provides first-class out-patient and in-patient facilities and all the diagnostic and treatment capabilities of an acute care hospital, including CT and MRI.

The CT scan is a 64 slice volume CT which has capability for CT Cardiac Angiography, CT Colonoscopy, Lung Imaging, and Neurological Imaging.

Our new range of services includes Women's Health Services, Executive Health Screening, Critical Care Unit and ER, making the hospital a one-stop shop, convenient and accessible to our patients.

The hospital is the first facility in Oman to provide cardiac surgery services.

The hospital is managed by UME Group, an international hospital management group with more than 27 years experience in the Middle East and the UK.