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Department of Emergency Medicine

KMC , Mangalore
Health Sciences

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, under Manipal Academy of Higher Education, provides immediate medical assistance to patients with acute illnesses, injuries, accidents, and other time-critical conditions. Working through the Emergency Department at KMC Hospital, Mangalore, it delivers round-the-clock care to infants, children, adolescents, and adults. The department integrates rapid triage, resuscitation, emergency stabilisation, trauma care, critical procedures, multidisciplinary referral, undergraduate teaching, and research in areas related to emergency medicine.

Highlights

  • Provides 24-hour emergency assessment and treatment for patients across all age groups, from infants and children to adolescents and adults.
  • Manages conditions ranging from cuts, wounds, and fractures to life-threatening emergencies such as heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrest, major trauma, and severe respiratory compromise.
  • Uses a structured triage system in which patients are assessed and assigned to treatment zones according to the severity and urgency of their condition.
  • Maintains a dedicated Resuscitation Bay for patients with life-threatening and time-critical emergencies requiring immediate medical and nursing intervention.
  • Provides advanced emergency-airway management, rapid-sequence intubation, invasive and non-invasive respiratory support, and emergency surgical-airway procedures.
  • Undertakes Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support interventions for patients experiencing respiratory or cardiac arrest.
  • Performs emergency procedures including central venous access, temporary cardiac pacing, pericardiocentesis, procedural sedation, wound closure, and management of collapsed lung.
  • Uses diagnostic imaging and other hospital-based investigations to identify internal injuries and guide urgent treatment decisions.
  • Works with multidisciplinary doctors, nurses trained in emergency and critical care, and specialists who are available around the clock.
  • Is supported by the Manipal Ambulance Response Service for pre-hospital assessment, stabilisation, monitoring, and transport during the critical “golden hour.”
  • Provides undergraduate medical teaching and clinical exposure in Emergency Medicine.
  • Departmental expertise includes emergency medicine, trauma, toxicology, point-of-care ultrasound, simulation, emergency critical care, and emergency-department administration.
  • Faculty contribute to resuscitation education, including Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support courses.
  • Collaborates with the Centre for Disaster Management in academic activities relating to disaster preparedness, emergency response, and the role of healthcare professionals during disasters.