Biomedical subjects
G D Perkins
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Pyoderma gangrenosum.
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Basic life support training for health care students.
This paper describes a novel method for delivering basic life support training to undergraduate healthcare students. A comprehensive 8 h programme is organised and delivered by undergraduate students to their peers. These students have undergone training as basic life support instructors validated by the Royal Life Saving Society UK. The course is delivered to multiprofessional groups of medical, dental, physiotherapy, biomaterial and nursing undergraduates. It has been well received by students and academic staff and provides a solution to reduce the workload of over burdened clinical staff while at the same time enhancing quality. It forms part of an overall strategy for improving resuscitation training for undergraduates from all disciplines.
Interprofessional learning.
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Perioperative care of a Jehovah's Witness with a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm.
We describe a Jehovah's Witness patient who survived emergency repair of a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm. In accordance with his beliefs, the patient expressed a wish not to be given blood and this was respected. At completion of surgery, his haemoglobin was 2.8 g dl-1 and his albumin was 8 g l-1. He was kept heavily sedated in the intensive care unit and treated with i.v. iron, folinic acid and s.c. epoetin alfa. He was discharged to the high dependency unit 18 days after surgery with a haemoglobin of 6.4 g dl-1 and an albumin of 27 g l-1. After rehabilitation, he was discharged home approximately 14 weeks after surgery.
Physicians as educators.
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