PSEM Newsletter, Jan 2024
The newsletter of PSEM is here. Jan 2024 issue of the PSEM newsletter can accessed through following link PSEM Newsletter Volume 02- Issue 04 Oct to Dec 2023
Author: Abdus Salam Khan
Ensuring quality in Healthcare: Role of accrediting bodies.
Doctors across the country as well as across the world are considered to act in the best interest of patients. They are seen as working alone or in a team-formation delivering the care that is needed to alleviate the suffering. Their work since ages has given them the fame as well as the prestige that […]
Medical First Responder: Its role in the healthcare of Pakistan.
Community first responders or medical first responder is a person dispatched to attend a medical emergency until further trained help arrives. These first responders are specially trained to provide out of hospital care in medical emergencies. The word first responder emerged in 1970s in United States. It was introduced by newspapers to describe plan of […]
Polypharmacy: A recipe for potential disaster.
Modern Medicine has contributed enormously to improving the overall health of patients, controlling diseases, managing outcomes, and keeping people productive parts of society. Diseases, especially the longstanding chronic illnesses, are controlled by medications belonging to different classes of chemicals and therapeutic agents. These drugs have been used for quite some time with good safety margin. […]
Urgent Care Clinics: Do these have a place in the healthcare of Pakistan?
When we get sick we go and seek medical advice. The choice is usually our family doctor or local General Practitioner. They treat almost all stable conditions but are limited in case of any emergency or semi-emergency. In that case our option is usually emergency department which is mostly crowded and a time consuming proposition. […]
What is crowding in Emergency Department and why does it matter?
The healthcare system in Pakistan is broken down system with the Emergency Department being the weakest part because of plenty of reasons, some of which I have explained multiple times in my posts. Today we will discuss a very important reason and that is crowding. Our healthcare system is broadly divided in Government sector and […]
Newsletter PSEM: Know what’s on the minds of Emergency Physicians and Nurses.
The new episode of Newsletter of PSEM (Pakistan Society of Emergency Medicine) is here… Newsletter Volume 02- Issue 02 Apr to Jun 2023 Final
Introducing Pre-hospital in Pakistan: focus on 1122.
Healthcare can never deliver excellent results unless it is supported by a robust pre-hospital care system. Most sick patients cannot be transferred to the hospital safely, or get treated in appropriate time if there is no effective pre-hospital care system. There is a misconception that pre-hospital care is designed to take care of trauma, and […]
Complete Trauma Care and its development in Pakistan.
Trauma or injury is leading cause of death and disability in young age. Our society as a whole is accident prone. This is mostly because our roads are not properly built and are accident prone. Bridges and roads are improperly constructed, with premature opening of the roads in unsafe conditions, so on and so forth. […]
Remembering Dr. Seemin Jamali: Tribute to Iron Lady.
Dr. Seemin Jamali passed away after a long battle with the cancer. She left her marks on a lot of people and also on Emergency Medicine in Pakistan. With her departure a big chapter ends in the book of Emergency Medicine in Pakistan and also at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center. She remained part and […]