OBJECTIVE To determine the degree of satisfaction and acceptance of stroke patients, their relatives, and healthcare providers toward using telestroke technology in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted between October and December 2012 at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Remote Presence Robot (RPR), the RP-7i (FD...

AIM The aim of this study was to assess the repeatability and reproducibility by physicians of upper lid measurements and to investigate the influence of clinical experience on the learning curve effect. METHODS Both eyes of 22 outpatients were assessed for three basic measures of ptosis: marginal reflex distance (MRD) for upper and lower lids, upper lid skin crease (SC), and levator function...

One hundred consecutive patients who had consulted their general practitioner because of upper abdominal pain related to eating, were investigated after initial interviews by the general practitioner, a medical registrar and the same consultant physician. Thirty seven had active upper gastrointestinal or biliary tract diseases, including 29 with peptic ulcers. The general practitioner and consu...

* MDS, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Advanced Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma Centre, Bihar Sharif, Bihar, India ** MD, Consultant Physician, Jeevan Jyoti Super Speciality Hospital, Bihar Sharif, Bihar, India *** BDS, Private Practitioner, Advanced Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma Centre, Bihar Sharif, Bihar, India † Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sarjug Dental ...

OBJECTIVE Consultation of another physician is an important method of review of the practice of euthanasia. For the project "support and consultation in euthanasia in Amsterdam" which is aimed at professionalising consultation, a protocol for consultation was developed to support the general practitioners who were going to work as consultants and to ensure uniformity. PARTICIPANTS Ten experts...

Surgical training based on the Halstedian principle of apprenticeship has not really changed for over a century now. Educationists endeavor constantly to reduce the time taken for students/trainees to achieve competency while meeting safety standards. This is due to the constraints of time, economics, facilities, teachers, regulations, governance and the need to fill manpower gaps in the health...

Abstract Background Therapeutic drug monitor (TDM) guided optimized dosing of Voriconazole allows optimal exposure in the management mold infection (MI). In addition to already known nuances pharmacokinetics such as CYP2C19 genetic polymorphism and role interactions both necessitating TDM, case reports have suggested that auto-induction may occur after initially achieving a therapeutic level. W...

With the death on 3 May 1987 of the distinguished physician and medical historian, Kenneth Keele, the world of scholarship has sustained an irreplaceable loss, especially in the field of Leonardo da Vinci studies. from a medical family; his father and grandfather were medical practitioners, as were his two brothers, one ofwhom, Cyril Keele, is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at Middlesex Hos...