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 […]
The training program in Emergency Medicine is quite new in Pakistan. College of Physician and Surgeon (CPSP) recognized Emergency Medicine as a field in 2010. Since then although progress has been slow but it is in right direction. Two programs started training and it was difficult to move forward initially, with plenty of disappointments and setbacks were dealt with by […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – October, 2018 The medical field improve through the research work of plenty of people. They work hard in making their work known to the other physicians and so they are the reason for the medical field to progress. Their work creates the basis for the guidelines and improvement of […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP – September, 2018 Since the change in power has taken place in Pakistan, every concerned citizen has hope that a change in government will bring more possibilities for the improvement. We as the torchbearers of emergency care in Pakistan also are hopeful for the change. We feel that improving emergency […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPAugust, 2018 When patients present to the emergency department, they put their trust in the hands of the treating physicians and expect better care delivery and eventually outcome of the treatment. Ethically physicians are expected to do no harm and go good to the patients. The emergency department care delivery is […]
