DHS Jammu plans to aid its Emergency Services with life saving Tenecteplase Drug

Jammu :To add more efficiency and strength to its Save Life Jammu initiative, Directorate of Health Services Jammu is going to aid Emergency Services with the life saving Tenecteplase Drug.
As per the DHS Jammu, “Save Life Jammu” is a comprehensive initiative launched by Directorate of Health Services Jammu to save lives in Golden hour. It has revolutionised Emergency care across all districts by providing best of the treatment in the shortest possible time without referrals to the tertiary care. This initiative has already handled more than 6000 emergencies till date and saved numerous lives.
It has enabled patients to be treated at doorsteps and trained medicos to build their capacities to manage life threatening emergencies.
Presently, Save Life Jammu is catering to almost 30 to 35 emergencies on daily basis with main stress on reaching out to remote areas of the division.
The department has also achieved expertise to deal with STEMI or heart attack that is more serious and has a greater risk of serious complications and death.
“In the Emergency rooms, Thrombolytic therapy with streptokinase has been a major procedure in the management STEMI and we have done almost 200 successful procedures over the last few months amounting to more than one thrombolysis procedure every day” said the Directorate.
This drug works by lysing infarct artery thrombi and achieving reperfusion, thereby reducing infarct size, preserving left ventricular function, and improving survival.
But time has come to drift and evolve to better and safer options of newer buster drugs, like Tenecteplase.
Tenecteplase is a better and safer option. It is given rapidly, as an IV bolus and has better impact to open clogged coronaries. It also comes with least chances of hypersensitivity reactions and is easy to administer at every centre of our division.
Soon, we will be making it available and our ERs will be equipped with this wonder clot busting drug Tenecteplase to aid our Emergency medical teams to save heart attack patients
The DHS will be conducting several workshops, sensitisation programmes, training campaigns and hands on sessions all across Jammu to enable our ER teams to acquire the skill and confidence to use this wonder clot busting drug with ease in future . This Directorate has also arranged the ALS/BLS Training for AYUSH Medical Officers & Paramedical staff as well as NSS volunteers and faculty of Jammu University.