Margaret Maame Yaa Mprengo Abua Forson

• Assess patients in emergency rooms, pre-op clinics and wards to effectively triage and plan treatments particular to anaesthesia (pre-operative, intra-operative, post-operative care) and for Intensive Care admissions.
• Provide monitored anaesthetic care, general anaesthesia and regional anaesthesia under consultant supervision to a wide group of general and subspecialty surgical patients as both elective and urgent cases.
• Airway and ventilatory support and this includes intubating patients and managing on ventilators on varied settings.
• Perform invasive procedures; inserting central and arterial lines (arterial blood gas interpretation).
• Lead the intensive care team to offer high quality care to patients admitted to both general and cardiac ICUs.
• Prepare discharge summaries and linked up rehabilitation services.
• Utilize knowledge and skills learned during Postgraduate Diploma in Pain Management to offer safe and multidisciplinary pain services to clients.
• Lead ward rounds under consultant's supervision to evaluate quality of care delivery.
• Member of Risk Management Team to generate and re-assess the risk register for our hospital's intensive care units using the FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) approach.
• Member of our gallant ICU team during the Covid 19 pandemic that managed the largest intensive care unit dedicated to only patients with Covid in the University of Ghana Medical Centre.

Rotated through the Internal Medicine department and there:

• Clerked patients with conditions including and not limited to cardiology, gastroenterology, respiratory, infectious diseases and endocrinology.
• Ordered targeted investigations and interpreted them under the supervision of a consultant physician.
• Covered the emergency department under the supervision of emergency physicians and there triaged and clerked patients while putting urgent life-saving interventions in place.
• Organized and conducted transfer of patients for necessary investigations such as radiological imaging, among others.

General Surgery (3 months)

Houseofficer roles in general surgery and paediatrics in the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, obstetrics and gynaecology at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, and internal medicine at the University Hospital, Legon.