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aka Postcards from the Edge 010 This ‘postcard from the edge’ is by Swedish Emergency Physician Dr Katrin Hruska (@akutdoktorn), who writes a Swedish/ English language language blog called akutdoktorn. Immaculate Nagaddya is a registered nurse, working in Lugada Hospital in Uganda. It is a small hospital with about 10 000 visits per year, where she receives critically ill patients, presenting with conditions like status asthmatics, status epilepticus and severe dehydration from watery diarrhoea. Together with seven other nurses and between one and three doctors she keeps this emergency department open day and night, all year round. Immaculate Nagaddya Equipment is scarce in Immaculate’s emergency department: 2 blood pressure cuffs, 2 monitors, 2 pulse oximeters and 1 digital thermometer. But there is oxygen for all eleven beds and the hospital offers x-ray and ultrasound scans. Even though it is a 270 bed hospital, the emergency room has only been in place since August 2013. Immaculate and her colleagues are working hard to improve the quality of emergency care they can provide. That is why Immaculate was chosen by her hospital to go to the AFCEM conference in Addis Ababa in November. But Immaculate is not going. AFCEM is the biannual meeting of the African Federation of Emergency Medicine (http://www.afcem2014.com). It covers the same kind of topics any emergency conference would: Closed head injury, stroke, the acute abdomen, airway management etc. Yet the informatio...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Emergency Medicine International Emergency Medicine AFCEM AFEM africa immaculate naggadya jeremiah njenga postcards from the edge Source Type: blogs