Initial single centre experiences of a radiographer advanced practitioner led nephrostomy exchange programme

Percutaneous nephrostomy for symptomatic hypermobile kidney: a single centre experience

INTRODUCTION Symptomatic hypermobile kidney is treated with nephropexy, a surgical procedure through which the floating kidney is fixed to the retroperitoneum. Although both open and endoscopic procedures have a high success rate, they can be associated with risk of complications, relatively long hospital stay and high cost. AIM We describe our percutaneous technique for fixing a hypermobile ...

Management of Perinatal Testicular Torsion: A Single Centre Experience

Perinatal testicular torsion (PTT) is a rare entity. The management of PTT is controversial, due to the low viability of the testis and the possibility of bilateral torsion. This is a review of our experience with six cases of PTT, highlighting diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of this condition.

Patients’ experiences of a multidisciplinary team-led community case management programme: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVES To explore the views and experiences of patients on the care they have received while enrolled on the Northumberland High Risk Patient Programme (NHRPP). This programme involved case finding of frail patients using a multidisciplinary team (MDT)-led community case management programme, and support of patients through care planning and regular reviews using primary, community, seconda...

Advanced Cardiac Resuscitation Evaluation (ACRE): A randomised single-blind controlled trial of peer-led vs. expert-led advanced resuscitation training

BACKGROUND Advanced resuscitation skills training is an important and enjoyable part of medical training, but requires small group instruction to ensure active participation of all students. Increases in student numbers have made this increasingly difficult to achieve. METHODS A single-blind randomised controlled trial of peer-led vs. expert-led resuscitation training was performed using a gr...

Becoming a Writing Consultant: The Initial Experiences of Working in an Academic Writing Centre