A5069845074- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Potassium and Related Disorders
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Kawasaki Disease and Coronary Complications
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Ethics in medical practice
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Ion channel regulation and function
- Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
- Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Aga Khan University Hospital
2021-2023
Emergency physicians (EPs) working in low-resource settings, where patients mainly bear the cost of healthcare delivery, face many challenges. care is patient-centered and ethical challenges are numerous situations patient autonomy beneficence fragile. This review discusses some common bioethical issues resuscitation postresuscitation phases treatment. Solutions proposed necessity for evidence-based ethics unanimity on standards emphasized. After a consensus was reached structure article,...
Abstract Acute pancreatitis (AP) refers to the acute inflammation of pancreas; however, if there is concurrent necrosis, it called necrotizing (NAP). The diagnosis sometimes difficult because might mimic coronary syndrome (ACS). We report a case 28-year-old male, who presented emergency department (ED) with severe epigastric pain, shortness breath and diaphoresis for 4–5 h. initial electrocardiogram (ECG) showed marked sinus bradycardia an incomplete left bundle branch block. Considering...
Hyperkalemia is a potentially fatal clinical problem frequently seen in the emergency department (ED). It causes spectrum of electrocardiogram (ECG) changes such as peaked T-waves, prolonged PR interval, widened QRS complexes, intraventricular/fascicular/bundle branch blocks, etc. Brugada Phenocopy (BrP) rare ECG finding severe hyperkalemia associated with prevalence malignant cardiac arrhythmias and all-cause mortality. Unlike Syndrome (BrS) it transient phenomenon completely resolves...
INTRODUCTION: Airway management is one of the vital resuscitative procedures undertaken in many critically ill pediatric patients presenting for emergency care. Around (2–33/10,000) all to department (ED) require airway protection various conditions, such as respiratory failure, protection, and cardiac arrest 1-3. In children, demands great caution because their age-related differences anatomical physiological characteristics limited reserves. Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) has become...
Abstract Introduction: Emergency department healthcare workers of Pakistan during COVID 19 pandemic are facing an acute rise mental illnesses. In the present study, authors aim to assess frequency anxiety and depression among in emergency department. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between July August 2020 at Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan. The Anxiety Depression (HAD) scale used for illness assessment physicians nurses. Descriptive analysis grading as...
Emergency department (ED) healthcare workers in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic are facing an acute rise mental illnesses. In this study, authors aim to assess frequency of anxiety and depression among ED.
Subclinical hyperthyroidism (SH) is a condition in which blood levels of Thyroxine (T4) and Triiodothyronine (T3) are normal the presence low thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Patients with SH have either no symptoms or mild nonspecific symptoms. Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HPP) one rare presentations overt hyperthyroidism; however, only few cases reported to date occur SH. This case report presents young Asian male who was admitted emergency department (ED) lower extremities that...