Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP September 2019 It is said that if you are not the part of the solution, then you must be part of the problem. It does hold true for the emergency care in Pakistan. Our fragmented system of health care has always been seen as broken and needed to be fixed. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Aug 2019 We are witnessing the rise in the level of interest and understanding regarding the emergency medicine in Pakistan. What we started about seven years ago in getting a facelift. A blog was started in 2012 and is getting a new place here along with some of the resources […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPJuly, 2019 Global warming causes weather changes and one of the width is the heat waves. The resultant public exposure to this heat wave phenomenon can be very diverse dating. The experience of 2015 in Karachi tells us that we all need to be ready if something of that magnitude happens […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPMay, 2019 Although we usually think the treatment of any condition is the responsibility of the doctors, yet it is well understood that a well educated patient about his disease or condition has a better chance of dealing with situation in much better and calmer way. (1) In the spirit of being […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPMay, 2019 Patient care is a team work especially in all emergency departments. It is because of the fact that the care is dependent on multiple factors. The patients are either unstable or have the potential to become unstable. They may be in pain and need immediate relief. There is always […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPApril, 2019 Professional societies have very important role to be performed. People look up to these societies to guide them or channelize the resources and also to develop ways to improve understanding regarding the profession. Our journey of emergency medicine reached an important milestone when our professional society got established. It […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – April, 2019 Another Emergency Life Support (ELS) course is arranged to be delivered. Our Australian team is awesome in coming to Pakistan and helping us in equipping our physician and nurses to be ready for dealing with emergencies. A structured emergency care is new to Pakistan. Our departments dealing […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPMarch, 2019 Stress is a daily routine in emergency departments all around the world. People who work in emergency department are exposed to various degrees of stress all along their duty timings. Let us delve into this subject and try to create some understanding about stress and practical ways to deal […]
We are witnessing increasing understanding of healthcare community regarding Emergency Medicine as new field of training and delivery of care. Increasing number of people and increasing number of institutions are engaged in training and the number of trained physician are slowly increasing. The number of supervisors of training is also slowly increasing and it seems […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPJanuary, 2019 Last weekend was spent in Karachi. We had a great program done by the Emergency Physicians from Australia and UK. This group of 6 Emergency Physicians dedicated their time and efforts to conduct a workshop in a local facility, and covered most of the emergency procedures. The work was […]
