All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi will hold the second session of National Clinical Grand Rounds (CGR) at 3 PM today. The interactive session, which will be led by AIIMS Director, Dr. Randeep Guleria, is aimed at facilitating insightful discussion on COVID related issues. Senior doctors of the premier health Institute will be discussing on the usage of antiviral and anti-IL6 drugs in moderately severe COVID cases.

Doctors from medical colleges and Senior Physicians from hospitals located across the country and abroad will be participating in the online session. In an effort to share its experience and initiate discussions on management of common issues related to COVID-19, AIIMS Delhi with NITI Aayog and Union Health Ministry launched the National Clinical Grand Rounds (CGR) on COVID-19.

These sessions include presentation of clinical cases by physicians directly involved in COVID management. Challenges faced in the management are also discussed by a panel of eminent experts from across the country and outside India.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi held the first interactive session of National Clinical Grand Rounds led by AIIMS Director, Dr. Randeep Guleria on 22nd July.

The session was aimed at facilitating discussion on issues related to COVID-19. Doctors from medical colleges and Senior Physicians from hospitals located across the country and abroad participated in the online session.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Guleria said, the objective of National Clinical Grand Rounds is to bring down the mortality rate in COVID-19 patients to less than one percent. He said that COVID-19 is a national crisis and that there was a need for a common platform for clinical issues and case-based learning. The first CGR session focused on managing patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, who are clinically suspected to have COVID-19 but test negative in the initial RT-PCR.

AIIMS has been extensively involved in managing patients, developing guidelines, policies and research in COVID-19. The Institute has managed over 4,000 patients of all levels of severity of the disease.

In an effort to share its experience and initiate discussions on management of common issues related to COVID-19, AIIMS Delhi in conjunction with NITI Aayog and Union Health Ministry has launched the National Clinical Grand Rounds (CGR) on COVID-19.

The sessions included the presentation of clinical cases by physicians directly involved in COVID management. Challenges faced inpatient management will be discussed by a panel of eminent experts from across the country and abroad. Physicians also asked questions related to patient management during the Question and Answer session.