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Selected AbstractsStudent perspectives and opinions on their experience at an undergraduate outreach dental teaching centre at Cardiff: a 5-year studyEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DENTAL EDUCATION, Issue 1 2010C. D. Lynch Abstract Aim:, Outreach teaching is now regarded as a desirable component of undergraduate dental teaching programmes in the UK. A purpose-built undergraduate dental outreach-training centre was opened in Cardiff in 2002. The aim of this paper is to report student perspectives and opinions on their experience at this unit over a 5-year period. Methods:, Final year dental students at Cardiff University were invited to report their comments on the St David's Primary Care Unit at various times during their placement there. Information was recorded for undergraduate students who commenced final year in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 (n = 257). Results:, After 1 year, the most common favourable aspects reported by students included the availability of a suitably trained nurse for all procedures (n = 191), ready access to helpful/approachable teaching staff (n = 145), and closeness of learning experience to subsequent practice (n = 122). Many students commented on their growing confidence in their own abilities whilst in the unit. Conclusion:, Overwhelmingly, students reported their enthusiasm for training in an outreach teaching unit, preferring it to traditional dental school environments. Inherent in the comments recorded for each student was a sense of growing confidence in their abilities and development of reflective practice. Further work is needed to identify the impact of this form of dental student training on subsequent practices in Vocational Training and independent clinical careers. [source] Administration of enoxaparin by continuous infusion in a naturalistic setting: analysis of renal function and safety,JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACY & THERAPEUTICS, Issue 3 2005S. L. Kane-Gill Pharm D MSc Summary Study objective:, To describe the clinical use and safety of continuous infusion (CI) enoxaparin in a naturalistic setting and to evaluate the influence of renal function on enoxaparin elimination. Design:, Retrospective medical record review. Setting:, 1000-bed tertiary care teaching centre. Patients:, Hospitalized patients that received enoxaparin by CI during a 2-year period. Interventions:, None. Measurements:, Specific details of dosage and monitoring were collected. Adverse drug reactions (ADR) were recorded. Creatinine clearance (CrCl) was calculated using Cockroft and Gault and Brater equations. A population pharmacokinetic analysis was performed using the non-linear mixed effect model (NONMEM). For patients located in the intensive care unit (ICU) and ward, POSTHOC pharmacokinetic parameter estimates were evaluated using the Wilcoxon rank-sum. Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated to determine the association between renal function and anti-Xa clearance. Main results:, Sixty-seven patients received enoxaparin by CI of which 61·2% were in the ward and 38·8% in the ICU. The average initial rate and duration of infusion were 5·2 mg/h and 5·6 days, respectively. The number of anti-Xa concentration measurements averaged five per patient. Nine patients experienced an ADR. The most frequent ADR was gastrointestinal bleeding (n = 4). Among the 67 patients, 48 had available anti-Xa concentrations and were included in the NONMEM model. The anti-Xa CL and volume of distribution for ICU and ward patients averaged 0·64 ± 0·34 L/h, 10·6 ± 1·55 L and 1·01 ± 0·39 L/h, 9·08 ± 1·17 L, respectively. CrCl was not a significant covariate when included in the NONMEM model, and the association between CrCl and anti-Xa clearance was not significant (R2 = 0·0005; P = 0·8916). Conclusions:, This study is the first to report the use and safety of prolonged CI enoxaparin. Pharmacokinetic parameters of enoxaparin differ in ICU vs. ward patients. Overall, we found the safety of CI to be comparable to subcutaneous administration. Also, we found no effect of renal function on enoxaparin elimination. [source] Monitoring surgical performance: an application to total hip replacementJOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, Issue 3 2009David J. Biau MD Abstract Rationale, aims and objectives, Inadequate surgical implantation of a hip replacement may result in decreased patient satisfaction and reduced implant survival. The objective was to monitor surgical performance in hip replacement. Method, The study took place at a teaching centre. All primary total hip replacements were prospectively included in the series. For each hip replacement, intraoperative technical errors, cup and stem fixation and position, and postoperative complications were recorded. If all items rated were correct, the procedure was considered as correct. The Cumulative Sums (CUSUM) test was used to monitor the performance of the centre. A 90% proportion of successful procedures was considered as adequate performance and a 75% proportion of successful procedures was deemed as inadequate performance. Meetings were conducted to discuss the results of monitoring. Results, Eighty-three total hip replacements were monitored. Overall, 28 procedures (34%) were considered inadequate. The most potent reasons for inadequate performance were cup positioning and stem fixation. The CUSUM test signalled after the second procedure that performance was inadequate. After the first meeting, despite an improvement was seen, the CUSUM test raised an alarm indicating inadequate performance. The study was stopped after the second meeting because of funding reasons before it could be demonstrated that performance had reached the desired level. Conclusion, This study has demonstrated that implementing a dedicated system to monitor surgical performance in a teaching hospital improves the quality of implantation of total hip replacements. Nonetheless, the target of ninety percent of adequate primary total hip replacement could not be reached and efforts should be continued. [source] Outcomes of dental implants placed in a surgical training programmeAUSTRALIAN DENTAL JOURNAL, Issue 4 2009LP Smith Abstract Background:, This study evaluates surgical outcomes and survival rates of implants placed in a multidisciplinary implant teaching programme. Methods:, A retrospective review of all implant surgery performed over a 6-year period by accredited oral and maxillofacial surgery trainees at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne was undertaken. Patients were reviewed for a minimum of 6 months post-implant placement. Implant survival was defined as those implants which were not removed, were clinically integrated as assessed by torque testing and in an appropriate position to receive a subsequent prosthesis. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to assess overall survival and univariate factors affecting survival. Multivariate analysis used Cox proportional hazards models. Results:, Over 6 years, 127 patients were treated. Follow-up data were present for 105 patients with 236 implants placed. Survival of implants at 1 and 5 years was 94 per cent and 92.8 per cent, respectively. The only univariate and multivariate factor which affected implant survival was perioperative bone grafting. All failed implants were single stage. Other factors such as patient age, smoking status, implant site, anaesthetic type, immediate or delayed placement, implant length and diameter, and medical comorbidities did not significantly affect implant survival. Conclusions:, A satisfactory implant survival rate was found in a tertiary teaching centre. Perioperative bone grafting significantly increased the risk of implant failure. [source] | ||||||||||