When patients come to the emergency department for the care of their ailments, they are very vulnerable. They have to deal with doctors and nurses that they have never met before, they are nervous about the situation they are in, and they are concerned about the outcome of this interaction. They want to rely on […]
Keeping the tradition of guiding the EM community, our first EM newsletter is published. This is the efforts of plenty of people who took time and shared the articles through this newsletter. This will be a regular newsletter now which will be quarterly to begin with and then monthly Insha Allah. http://www.abdussalamkhan.work/psem-newsletter-volume-01-issue-01-oct-to-dec-2022-copy/
The emergency medicine community is growing now and each day the number of members of PSEM are increasing. Being a young faculty, with the very important scope of work, it needs to have effective ways of communication. This also includes educating our colleagues, and also the community at-large which we all serve. As we do […]
Providing care to the ailing humanity is a complex task and comes with an inherent risk of error. Medical community is well aware of the risk of medical errors, especially after the report of Institute of Medicine that has come out in 2000. The report titled “To err is Human” described that healthcare system has […]
Carbon mono oxide is the gas which is produced when carbon containing material is incompletely combusted. With complete combustion carbon di oxide is produced. Both these gases are problematic and injurious to health. Carbon mono oxide or CO is more toxic as it is more readily penetrable and difficult to remove from body when absorbed. […]
We are living in a digital age, and we are all surrounded by screens most of the time, whether at work, school or at home. We feel that our productivity and accuracy has improved through the use of computers, cell phones and other digital equipment. Screen time is meant to describe the amount of time […]
Obesity has been declared by the health officials as an epidemic, and it is expected that the risk of diabetes and other complications of obesity will be markedly increased in the future. This epidemic requires combined efforts of the whole community in order to educate people about obesity and its complications and to avoid health […]
We hear all the time about allergies causing multiple complaints in people. Searching the allergies revealed that, allergies occur when your immune system reacts to a foreign substance or food that does not cause a reaction in most people. But in certain people can cause symptoms of allergies. According to the Mayo Clinic, when you […]
The healthcare delivery in the emergency department is slowly becoming a priority in Pakistan. What started two decades ago in one part of Pakistan has gained enough traction across Pakistan that young doctors and medical students have started looking into Emergency Medicine as career and life style. The collective efforts of people working in the […]
The International diaspora of Emergency Physicians are always seen as greatest help for the development of Emergency Medicine in Pakistan. The last two decades of Emergency Medicine struggle in Pakistan is inundated with continuous involvement of international faculty of Emergency Physicians in the most positive way and has resulted in making a positive impact. We […]
