About this role
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Job Description – Orthopedic Ward Duty Doctor
Job Title: Duty Doctor – Orthopedics
Department: Orthopedics
Reports To: Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon / Medical Superintendent
Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day medical care and monitoring of patients admitted to the orthopedic ward.
- Perform initial assessment of patients and document history, examination findings, and treatment plans.
- Monitor vital signs, clinical condition, pain, neurovascular status, and postoperative recovery.
- Review laboratory investigations, X-rays, CT/MRI reports, and other relevant investigations.
- Implement treatment orders prescribed by the orthopedic consultant.
- Manage common ward emergencies and promptly escalate deteriorating patients to the consultant/appropriate specialty.
- Monitor postoperative patients for complications such as bleeding, infection, neurovascular compromise, DVT/PE, and wound problems.
- Assist with preoperative and postoperative patient management.
- Coordinate with nursing staff, physiotherapy, radiology, laboratory, and other departments.
- Maintain accurate patient records, progress notes, medication charts, discharge summaries, and referral documentation.
- Obtain and document informed consent where appropriate, as per hospital policy.
- Attend emergency calls within the ward and provide initial stabilization.
- Participate in rounds with orthopedic consultants and communicate relevant clinical updates.
- Ensure adherence to infection-control, patient-safety, medication-safety, and hospital protocols.
- Counsel patients and attendants regarding treatment plans, postoperative care, mobility, medications, and warning signs.
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