Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – September, 2018 Since the change in power has taken place in Pakistan, every concerned citizen has hope that a change in government will bring more possibilities for the improvement. We as the torchbearers of emergency care in Pakistan also are hopeful for the change. We feel that improving emergency […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPAugust, 2018 When patients present to the emergency department, they put their trust in the hands of the treating physicians and expect better care delivery and eventually outcome of the treatment. Ethically physicians are expected to do no harm and go good to the patients. The emergency department care delivery is […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – June, 2018 Emergency departments across the world provide care to vast spectrum of diseases and conditions. The teamwork required to provide the care needs to be safe care delivery especially to the most sick. As the pace of activity in the emergency department is quite high and too many […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPMay, 2018 Doctors working in emergency department across the world see patients with drug overdose or poisonings and at times feel inadequate in properly managing those patients. They sort out books or call colleagues to get a hint of what could be the safe way of managing these patients. Where can […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – April, 2018 Pakistan has turned another corner in its journey of Emergency Medicine. Our collective efforts to bring Emergency Medicine to forefront got a boost with creation of society to represent the Emergency Medicine in Pakistan. When we talk about the efforts done in the field of Emergency Medicine, […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – September, 2017 With great effort and continuous struggle, Pakistan is fortunate to have developed a small team of Emergency Physicians well geared towards improving emergency care in Pakistan. The efforts that started more then two decades ago are slowly bearing fruit. The background work was done through public awareness, […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – August, 2017 While providing care for our patients as doctors, nurses, staff and technicians what is the expectations of our patients. Although everyone expects the problem that they are facing should go away but in real sense the problem sometimes does not hurt as much as our attitude hurt […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – July, 2017 Emergency department is a place can be chaotic and is prone to potential errors. This is due to high risk situations addressed in shorts span of time. Sometimes difficult situation arise due to crowding of patients and other times delay in decision-making due to factors not in […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – June, 2017 We live in an age of information. Depending upon circumstances, some people will see benefit in it, but otherwise, this information load creates confusion in most of our decisions. We also live in an age where communication is very important. We will believe things based on the […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – May, 2017 Emergency department deals with all situations and in order to keep the department clinically safe and avoid neglecting patients when they present sick, plenty of efforts are needed. Countless observations of patients have shown that the care delivered and the emergency rooms across part Khan is highly […]
