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 […]

Polypharmacy: A recipe for potential disaster.


Modern Medicine has contributed enormously to improving the overall health of patients, controlling diseases, managing outcomes, and keeping people productive parts of society. Diseases, especially the longstanding chronic illnesses, are controlled by medications belonging to different classes of chemicals and therapeutic agents. These drugs have been used for quite some time with good safety margin. […]

Urgent Care Clinics: Do these have a place in the healthcare of Pakistan?


When we get sick we go and seek medical advice. The choice is usually our family doctor or local General Practitioner. They treat almost all stable conditions but are limited in case of any emergency or semi-emergency. In that case our option is usually emergency department which is mostly crowded and a time consuming proposition. […]

What is crowding in Emergency Department and why does it matter?


The healthcare system in Pakistan is broken down system with the Emergency Department being the weakest part because of plenty of reasons, some of which I have explained multiple times in my posts.   Today we will discuss a very important reason and that is crowding. Our healthcare system is broadly divided in Government sector and […]