Virtual Basic Critical Care Management Course For Non-ICU Doctors - Part 1 / August 7, 2021 by Muhammad Amir Ayub

This course was a collaboration of many parties (Mercy Malaysia, UKM, Persatuan Kakitangan Anestesiologi Hospital Umum Sarawak), and used the MY sigRA platform to deliver its content live to an extremely wide audience; at its peak, the live feed had more than two thousand viewers.

This course was delivered predominantly in English with Malay sprinkled in; take note international viewers. As I am a one man show, there will not be translations obviously.

Most of my editing will focus on keeping out administrative talk and audio editing to modify the at times usually piercing character of streamed audio.

The first part will be the introduction to the course and “Fundamentals of ICU Care”, both by Dr Mafeitzeral bin Mamat.

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COVID-19 Critical Care Resources...In One Spot / January 31, 2021 by Muhammad Amir Ayub

COVID-19 ravages on, with myself having been a victim of it (and fortunately a cluster of one).

For us Malaysians, I think we can appreciate going to one spot to look up for resources in managing our critically ill COVID patients. Here you go:

Hospital Kuala Lumpur COVID ICU Protocol

HKL ICU Favipiravir Drug Summary

Malaysian Society of Intensive Care (MSIC) Consensus Statement on Corticosteroids for COVID-19

MSIC Statement on CPR for COVID-19 Patients

MSIC Statement on Recommendations on Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

MSIC Statement on Venous Thromboprophylaxis in ICU patients with COVID-19

Anticoagulant Dosing Protocol for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis in HKL ICU patients with COVID-19 (Revised 12 May 2021)

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines on the Management of Adults With COVID-19 in the ICU

WHO Guidelines on Clinical Management of COVID-19 (Jan 25 2021)

Do let me know if there are other useful official resources and I will update this post.

On the Recovery Movement Control Order / August 10, 2020 by Muhammad Amir Ayub

One can easily appreciate where the “recovery” part comes into view: on the need to keep businesses alive, and for families to return to some level of normalcy. And certainly for kids to go back to school and learn anything. Personally I find the idea of giving homework during this period to be ironic in some ways. Which parents are better equipped to “homeschool” their children other than parents who’ve had their work affected by COVID or retrenched because of it? Many of us, for example healthcare, are still working as usual you know.

But there are definitely economic casualties. Less parking being used in shopping malls with closed down shops are examples of the economic effects of trying to curb the spread of disease. The need to distance and limit customer density just will not be good to the bottom line.

But we are recovering, somewhat.

The limiting factor will be what’s going on outside of the borders. Our neighbors are doing good but not in the rest of the world. The United States can’t get any part of their act together, as Trump will continue his stupid ways, and their youth can’t stop partying. I’m personally interested in seeing how COVID will effect the American sports complex when it is all said and done, considering that sports plays so much into the economy versus other countries. American football is what keeps university programs alive!