Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – June, 2016 Emergency medicine is very important field amongst the disciplines of medicine and because of relatively new field its role is still being defined in Pakistan. It is important because it deals with all sort of medical problems in all ages of patients and is time restricted, which […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPMay, 2016 Rawalpindi – Islamabad is hosting a conference on patient safety. It is heart warming to see that the healthcare community in Pakistan is discussing this very important aspect of patient care. People will come from different parts of the world as well as from different institutions of Pakistan and talk […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – April, 2016 A family brings their mom to the emergency department after she becomes unconscious at home only to be told that she is dead. Now the family has tough time accepting this fact and they become very aggressive asking doctors to bring their mom to life. Another family […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – March, 2016 Emergency department is considered a nurse led department because of time essence and close interaction of nurses with their patients. The nurse utilize all resources in a coordinated fashion including the doctors working in the emergency department. We will talk about this phenomenon from a pure Pakistani […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – February, 2017 Healthcare delivery is a complex task as it depends on plenty of unknowns and also human interactions. There are plenty of chances that the care although done with good intentions may result in a bad outcome. This bad outcome creates victims. The person who gets to bear […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – February, 2016 With the changing world it is important for us to adopt the right methods and right ingredients for your future generations. What seems to be out of bound should be incorporated in our studies at appropriate levels in order for us to compete with the advancing world. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPJanuary, 2016 It was a historic day for us. We were gathered in College of physicians and surgeons main campus in Karachi to create a historic event. What started almost five years ago was bearing the fruit in a short amount of time. The FCPS Emergency Medicine exit examination was to […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – December, 2015 EMAG conducted the landmark examination workshop last weekend. International Medical Exam (IMEX) workshop was thought out by EMAG to help young and ambitions doctors in their international examination. Because of our old fashioned system in healthcare our physicians go through tough time when they have to appear in international exams. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – November, 2015 Disasters are usually explained as any unwanted or unplanned event that exceeds the coping abilities of the people that experience it. It can happen at individual, regional or at national level. Catastrophe is any event that is not in our control and can happen at any time. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPOctober, 2015 This months blog is about emergency management and its organization. For the several years now we have talked about emergency department and emergency care because the concept was new to the public of Pakistan. In many segments of society the realization is still incomplete about the role of emergency […]
