Explosion occurred near Red Fort in Delhi.
There are reports of several deaths and injuries in the blast that took place near the Red Fort in Delhi. The dead and injured have been admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital in Delhi. Treatment of the injured is going on here. Meanwhile, it is also important to know how doctors treat those injured in the blast. Dr. Ajit Kumar, in the Critical Care Department at GTB Hospital, Delhi, says that a person can get lightly or seriously injured in any kind of blast. It depends on how far away the person was from where the blast occurred; people who are very close get seriously injured.
Those injured in the blasts suffer many types of injuries. Some people's eardrums burst and blast shrapnel also hits the body. There may also be injury to the bone or head. Among the injured, a large number are those who have been burnt. When any kind of injured patient is brought to the emergency, first of all his pulse is checked. It is seen whether the person has a pulse and breathing or not. After this, he is treated according to his injury. It starts with triage.
In this, patients are divided into three categories. First, those who need ventilator immediately. Secondly, those who need constant monitoring and thirdly, those who have only suffered minor injuries. After this the patients are tested. In these, it is seen through X-ray, CT scan or ultrasound whether there is any serious injury inside the body.
If a patient has a head injury, doctors from neurology and neurosurgery are also called. He does the treatment as per his convenience along with the anesthesia doctor. Apart from these, doctors from orthopedics to medicine are also involved. People who have bone injuries are seen by orthopedic doctors.
The first task is to save the lives of the injured by giving them treatment as soon as possible. People who suffer burn injuries are dressed and kept in the ICU. People who have head injuries also need ICU. There are some injured people whose lungs or heart are injured by the blast. Such patients are treated by keeping them on ventilator support. The complete treatment in an emergency depends on the type and location of the injury. The first priority is to save lives immediately.
Dr. Kumar says that some injured people come to the emergency whose injuries are minor, but due to the sound of the explosion and the chaos that followed, these people start suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. This means that these people become very scared and nervous and they feel that something like this might happen again. Such people are immediately given counseling from a psychiatrist doctor.
