Life saving drugs are those medicines that are mostly utilized in emergency situations. These drugs are utilized in emergency rooms, intensive care units and operating rooms. These drugs are utilized in conditions where time is the essence and multiple systems of the body are not functioning properly. Heart rhythm may be disturbed or the blood […]
I was not able to rest that night. Although I was not oncall and was off from work. That sunday I got a call from my colleague that put chills in my spine. Let me start the story from the beginning. Twenty eight year old married female with a two year old child was chased […]
This month Shifa is arranging a masterclass in Emergency Medicine. Being part of Shifa team, I am one of the organizers of this masterclass. The idea of masterclass evolved few months ago when concerned physicians of Shifa got together and decided to hold such meetings for the general practitioners and young Physicians, and to brush […]
Its been six months that we have started this website to talk about emergency medicine. This is also beginning of the year time and a new beginning is waiting for us at the emergency department at Shifa International Hospital. I thought to share with you all, efforts that we did for the emergency medicine in […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Dec 2012 No discussion or plan is complete if it does not generate an action plan or does not give any road map and the practical steps. We end our emergency care series with what I perceive as a workable plan. I have tried my best to formulate things based […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Nov 2012 Moving forward, let us see now what changes needed to be brought into the healthcare System, who are the stakeholders and let us talk about the intended beneficiaries. A good system requires proper ground work, healthy infrastructure, appropriate guiding principles, good Support Systems and talented operators. Presently we […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Oct 2012 I have defined the current situation in the last post, which gives us the whole scenario of emergency care in Pakistan, lets explore the next logical step. This step is basically defining what we actually want and why we like to change the current system of emergency care. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Sep 2012. Welcome to the third article of the series of articles on emergency care. We will be discussing the level of infrastructure and the care in Pakistan. This will be another piece of the puzzle regarding the emergency care in Pakistan. The first step in the direction of improving […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Aug 2012. When I wrote the first piece of this series I was not sure how will it be received by the audience. My idea is that people are concerned regarding the care that they get from the medical community and want to see it transform into a better system […]
Abdus Salam Khan,MD FACP, July 2012 Emergency care is one of the most important aspects of medical care for very obvious reasons. This area is so for not developed at all in Pakistan, for too many reason. As the awareness of the people is increasing about the care they receive in the hand of doctors […]
