Saadiqa Bray

• Provide emergency care to critically ill patients referred from peripheral hospitals in Medreg.
• Accept referrals from the periphery for patients requiring a higher level of care and provide telephonic advice.
• Manage high care patients on non-invasive ventilation: CPAP/Airvo
• Manage short stay ward: high turnover of patients presenting with various medical conditions.
• Organise the transfer of patients to step down facilities when appropriate.
• Collaborate with sub-specialists for advanced patient care.
• Attend academic and non-academic ward rounds with various consultants to optimise patient care.
• Supervise and teach medical students/interns/community service doctors.

• Delivered high-quality care to diverse, high-volume paediatric patient population in fast-paced environments
• Gathered information about symptoms and thoroughly examine paediatric patients to determine diagnosis and support treatments
• Requested and interpreted appropriate lab tests to gain more information regarding disease processes
• Prescribed medications and provide instructions for administration
• Directed patient flow, allowing for reduced wait times and increased care delivery
• Attended neonatal deliveries as requested and the use of ANLS principles for resuscitation
• Paediatric and neonatal ward care
• NICU skills: Intubation, ventilation, surfactant administration, umbilical vein catheterisation, sepsis guidelines, use of inotropes and antibiotics, interpretation of investigations, EEG, point of care tests and palliative care
• PICU skills: Intubation, ventilation, inotrope use, ICD insertion, sepsis management and interpret investigations

• Managed various emergencies in the paediatric EC.
• Ward management: examination of patients and

interpretation of special investigations. Formulation of

care plans that are presented to paediatric consultants.

• Ensured adequate patient flow from EC and identified

discharges timeously.

• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to develop a

comprehensive care plan.

• Comfortably performed routine paediatric procedures

• Paediatric outpatients: Provided follow up care and evaluated

response to treatments/ need for further investigations.

• Neonatal care:

• Attended deliveries where neonatal resuscitation was required, skills such as neonatal intubation and ventilation applied.
• Managed neonatal emergencies and facilitated transfer to NICU when required.

3. Premature neonatal care and complications managed.

• Completed 3 month training programme in internal medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, and paediatrics during the first year of internship
• Completed 2 month rotations in orthopaedics, anaesthetics and psychiatry