Communicable diseases tend to spread to other people if not dealt with appropriately, and with airborne infections like Covid-19 the risk exponentially increases. Front line staff is generally consisting of emergency department, anesthesia and intensive care staff but the exposure is extended to those people also who don’t do direct patients care, yet are still […]
People involved in emergency care in Pakistan are witnessing the change in the emergency department working, that is refreshing and much needed. This upcoming virtual conference in Emergency Medicine is part of the journey that started in early part of the century. It shows the work of very dedicated and concerned people to establish training […]
Prehospital care is integral an important part of emergency care. It is at times, more important and compliments the emergency care as it makes the care delivery more timely and lets the treatment start early. Prehospital care has its own dynamics and competencies. It is very challenging as it is the first contact of healthcare […]
We are well into the second wave of the pandemic. COVID-19 started late 2019 and peaked in the middle of 2020. Then a pause came into the numbers of cases. We all took a sigh of relief only for a short while. Now we are facing the second wave. It was something expected, yet the […]
The most challenging part of health care is providing emergency care. As it pertains to time-sensitive issues and all varied presentations. People who come to the Emergency Department face double vulnerability, as they are sick and cannot wait to see the specialist or their own doctor in the clinic, and on the top of that […]
COVID-19 is still lurking around, yet it seems that either people feel COVID-19 is gone away, or think they have enough immunity developed that they need not to worry about the COVID-19. The second wave is now upon us. The steady rise in the number of cases show that the mechanism supposed to be in […]
With the prolonged effects of covid-19, the life has not come to the previous normal again and it seems some of us may be getting used to the new normal with masks and hand washing and social distancing. The response of rest of us is quite less than optimal. After the first surge the general […]
July 24 was not an ordinary day for all of us who care about Emergency Medicine in Pakistan. We got the news of six Physicians’s passing FCPS in Emergency Medicine examination and becoming FCPS in Emergency Medicine. For them it was quite a tough journey that ended in unique prestige of becoming the initial few […]
Abdus Salam khan, MD FACP July 2020 COVID-19 is now in its eight month of being known to us. For the front line care providers it was a difficult learning curve and we continue to increase our knowledge base while facing some known and some unknown facts about the disease. Since emergency department is significant […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPPresident Pakistan Society of Emergency Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the vulnerability of our healthcare system. The emergency Department caters to all patients coming to be taken care of, and during this pandemic as the the whole hospital was scaling down its functions, yet the emergency department was relied upon […]
