EMERGE: A step in the right direction by AKU Emergency Faculty.


Emerge or Emergency Medicine Education and Research Global Exchange is a new initiative from Aga Khan University Hospital and our emergency medicine colleagues at the AKU emergency department. The EMERGE 2024 was themed “A Global Call to Action: Rethinking Emergency Care Science”. It was a two-day program with 15 workshops 12 conference sessions over two […]

Artificial Intelligence and the future of Emergency department work.


Artificial intelligence has already created the initial impact for the healthcare knowledge base and it seems like its use is going to get increasingly more enhanced. Whether it be research or the clinical care or even management decision making AI has a role that is increasingly been understood. Artificial intelligence helps in making sense of […]

Ensuring quality in the Emergency Department: A right of the patients being treated.


We are the Emergency Care providers, whether doctor or nurse or the paramedics. We are expected to treatment patients based upon scientific knowledge and deal with them in professional manner. Patient safety and quality care should be kept in focus all the time. All patients require timely intervention, yet there are some who need prompt […]

Emergency care system of a city: Sum is more than its components.


The citizen of any city requires a robust emergency care system for feel safe in case of any emergency. We all know that those emergencies never come announced and if there is no system of care in place then patients are at the mercy of whatever services they can find out themselves. It does have […]

Trauma care: Basics are important to save life.


Accidents account for sizable number of patients coming to emergency department of any bigger city hospital. This results in significant morbidity and mortality and as a result creates economic burden for the victims and their families. These patients are brought to the emergency department for initial stabilization and care and definitive treatment. Our care of […]

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 […]