NMC Guidelines on Aesthetic Surgery and Hair Transplant

NMC Guidelines on Aesthetic Surgery and Hair Transplant Procedures

Saraswat Hospital in Agra is the leading clinic for hair restoration in India. It is regarded as the best hair transplant clinic in India, all thanks to its exceptional medical team. The clinic is headed by Dr. Satya Kumar Saraswat and Dr. Preeti Saraswat. Both are Diplomates from the American Board of Hair Restoration Society (ABHRS). The hospital follows all the NMC guidelines required for hair transplants and aesthetic surgeries. Both doctors are eminent surgeons with more than 20+ years of experience in the medical field.

The hospital strictly adheres to all the rules and regulations as stipulated by the Ethics & Medical Registration Board of the National Medical Commission.

Any procedure involving a skin incision for tissue removal from the scalp or body, or to prepare the scalp or body to receive tissue (e.g., incising the FUE graft, excising the donor strip, creating recipient sites) by any means, including robotics, is a surgical procedure. Such procedures must be performed by a properly trained and licensed Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP) i.e., practitioner of Modern Medicine.

The hair transplant should preferably be undertaken only by those who have medical grooming, such as formal surgical training, such as MCh/DNB Plastic Surgery, and MD/DNB Dermatology, with adequate grooming in dermatological procedures.

The Following Aspects of Hair Restoration Should only be Performed by an RMP:

Preoperative diagnostic evaluation.
Surgery planning.
Surgery execution including Donor hair harvesting, Hairline design, Recipient site creation, and Management of other patient medical issues and possible adverse reactions.
Post-operative care.

Minimum Requirements in a Hospital/Clinic Performing Hair Transplant Procedures

The daycare theatre should be equipped with facilities for monitoring and handling emergencies including stocking emergency drugs, Boyles machine, intubation sets, and Ambu bags. A plan for handling emergencies should be in place and all nursing staff should be familiar with the emergency plan. It is ideal to have a standby anesthetist.

At Saraswat Hospital, we have the necessary equipment needed to deal with an emergency medical situation. This includes:

Aesthetic Procedures including Hair Transplant

Aesthetic Procedures, including Hair Transplant as with any other surgical procedure, may have complications and require skills and training in appropriate patient selection, differential diagnoses and techniques, and appropriate post-procedure care to optimize outcomes. It is suggested that anyone who wishes to perform these procedures should be adequately knowledgeable and trained and should ensure that they have adequate infrastructure and manpower to manage any issues that may arise due to the procedure performed.

It may be noted that watching in workshops or on YouTube or similar platforms is not adequate training to start Aesthetic procedures including hair transplants.
Assistants or OT technicians; should be from a medical background, such as nurses, lab technicians, or pharmacists. However, they need to be provided with structured, systematic, and proper training (responsibility will lie with the RMP) in all aspects of aesthetic procedure and disinfection, sterilization, patient communication, etc.
Assistants/technicians should perform tasks only under the supervision of an RMP.

The RMP should have anesthesia backup in the form of the presence of the anesthetist in the operation room area with all the requisite resuscitative equipment and drugs in place.
The RMP should ensure that the patient undergoing such procedures should have adequate preoperative clearances from the medical specialists and the anesthetist.

The RMP should have a well-equipped postoperative recovery room with facilities for monitoring vitals and adequate record keeping.

At Saraswat Hospital, we strictly follow all the above-mentioned NMC guidelines in our medical practice.

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