BACKGROUND Improper handling of medical wastes, which is common in Bangladesh, could adversely affect the hospital environment and community at large, and poses a serious threat to public health. We aimed to assess the knowledge and practices regarding medical waste management (MWM) among healthcare providers (HCPs) and to identify possible barriers related to it. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross...

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The nephrology teaching legacy is extensive. Claude Bernard, Carl Ludwig, Homer Smith, William Schwartz, Arnold Relman, Karl Gottschalk, Robert Narins, Jerome Kassirer, Mitchell Halperin and many others made their mark in the area of teaching the internal environment and its regulation, a discipline commonly termed ‘fluid and electrolytes’. Other medical specialties need these skills every day:...

Since the 2000 season, an injury surveillance system has been established to monitor injury risk and injury patterns in the Norwegian professional football league. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of routine injury registration performed by medical staff in professional football. The team medical staff completed injury registration forms on a monthly basis throughout the 2007 se...

Ambulance staff with advanced training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and equipped with monitor/defibrillators were used as the initial responders to collapse calls within a medically based prehospital coronary care system. During 21 months, in a population of approximately 120,000, ambulance staff successfully resuscitated six patients from ventricular fibrillation; there were four long term...

varieties of Voluntary Hospitals : General Hospitals, Special Hospitals and Cottage Hospitals, so-called. In the past, the medical staff of a Voluntary Hospital has given its services either entirely gratuitously or, in a few instances, each member of the staff has received a small honorarium for out-of-pocket expenses. It has always been understood, however, by the honorary medical staff of a ...

AIMS To assess the feasibility of training nurse practitioners to perform bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy, and to compare the quality of these samples with those obtained by medical staff. METHODS A retrospective audit was undertaken of nurse practitioner and medical staff performance in bone marrow procedures in a busy haematology day unit. RESULTS Nurse practitioners fared favo...