Quality improvement programs in Emergency Department


Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPMay, 2019 Patient care is a team work especially in all emergency departments. It is because of the fact that the care is dependent on multiple factors. The patients are either unstable or have the potential to become unstable. They may be in pain and need immediate relief. There is always […]

PSEM. A new chapter in emergency medicine


Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPApril, 2019 Professional societies have very important role to be performed. People look up to these societies to guide them or channelize the resources and also to develop ways to improve understanding regarding the profession. Our journey of emergency medicine reached an important milestone when our professional society got established. It […]

EMERGENCY LIFE SUPPORT COURSE


Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – April, 2019 Another Emergency Life Support (ELS) course is arranged to be delivered. Our Australian team is awesome in coming to Pakistan and helping us in equipping our physician and nurses to be ready for dealing with emergencies. A structured emergency care is new to Pakistan. Our departments dealing […]

Emergency Medicine Summit March 2019


We are witnessing increasing understanding of healthcare community regarding Emergency Medicine as new field of training and delivery of care. Increasing number of people and increasing number of institutions are engaged in training and the number of trained physician are slowly increasing. The number of supervisors of training is also slowly increasing and it seems […]

Emergency Medicine Update 2018


The training program in Emergency Medicine is quite new in Pakistan. College of Physician and Surgeon (CPSP) recognized Emergency Medicine as a field in 2010. Since then although progress has been slow but it is in right direction. Two programs started training and it was difficult to move forward initially, with plenty of disappointments and setbacks were dealt with by […]