Newsletter PSEM: Know what’s on the minds of Emergency Physicians and Nurses.
The new episode of Newsletter of PSEM (Pakistan Society of Emergency Medicine) is here… Newsletter Volume 02- Issue 02 Apr to Jun 2023 Final
Category: ASK Blog
Introducing Pre-hospital in Pakistan: focus on 1122.
Healthcare can never deliver excellent results unless it is supported by a robust pre-hospital care system. Most sick patients cannot be transferred to the hospital safely, or get treated in appropriate time if there is no effective pre-hospital care system. There is a misconception that pre-hospital care is designed to take care of trauma, and […]
Complete Trauma Care and its development in Pakistan.
Trauma or injury is leading cause of death and disability in young age. Our society as a whole is accident prone. This is mostly because our roads are not properly built and are accident prone. Bridges and roads are improperly constructed, with premature opening of the roads in unsafe conditions, so on and so forth. […]
Remembering Dr. Seemin Jamali: Tribute to Iron Lady.
Dr. Seemin Jamali passed away after a long battle with the cancer. She left her marks on a lot of people and also on Emergency Medicine in Pakistan. With her departure a big chapter ends in the book of Emergency Medicine in Pakistan and also at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center. She remained part and […]
Improving Trauma Care in Pakistan: Value of Collaboration and Teamwork.
Trauma related death is among the top reasons of mortality in younger population. A lot of emphasis has been placed on saving these lives including better pre-hospital care, golden hour pathway of care and early definitive care in hospitals through better surgical input and improved critical care. The trauma care has come a long way […]
Training in Emergency Medicine can transform people to become leaders.
Last few years we saw few Emergency Medicine (EM) trained doctors taking senior clinical management roles and establishing themselves as well positioned leaders. Can it be by chance, or it is because of any other reason. It is easy to say that it all seems like a stroke of luck, yet let us talk about […]
ELSI delivers the life support course again.
The Australian team arrived in Sialkot after three years of their last ELSI course in Pakistan. COVID-19 was the reason for this break in course delivery and so in February 2023, it started again. The area we are covering this time are Lahore and Sialkot. We choose those areas which lack developed emergency care and […]
Ethical considerations in delivering Emergency Care.
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 […]
Starting of PSEM newsletter: A great initiative.
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 […]
Second VICTIM: Is there something to be concerned about?
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 […]