of the guidelines Background: JSTMCT Working Party on hemovigilance and safety management of blood transfusion issued the first version of guidelines for the electronic pre-transfusion check for blood administration at the bedside [33]. The current guidelines cover issues concerning: a) Pre-transfusion check procedures at the bedside b) Requirements for the electronic pre-transfusion check at t...

BACKGROUND Divine Word University (DWU) is an emerging national university of Papua New Guinea (PNG) based in the provincial capital of Madang, providing training for Health Extension Officers (HEOs). HEOs form the backbone of healthcare delivery in PNG as clinicians, public health officers and health centre managers. Both campus-based and clinical teaching at the nearby Modilon Hospital is lim...

. one of the most important tasks of general physicians is the management of outpatients in health centers and clinics. bedside teaching and ambulatory traiing are however, limited to hospital clinics in short courses without enough supervision. this study aimed to evaluate the attitude of general practitioners working in health centers of guilan university of medical sciences toward ambulatory...

gy allows critical care practitioners to continuously monitor and evaluate tissue oxygenation at the bedside by using a fiberoptic pulmonary artery catheter that measures mixed venous oxygen saturation (S–vO2). Placement of a pulmonary artery catheter to measure S–vO2 may not always be feasible early in resuscitation or outside the intensive care unit (ICU). A new technology that uses a modifie...

BACKGROUND To design and implement an emergency medicine (EM) postgraduate training curriculum to support the establishment of the first EM residency program at Addis Ababa University (AAU). METHODS In response to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health mandate to develop EM services in Ethiopia, University of Toronto EM faculty were invited to develop and deliver EM content and expertise fo...

BACKGROUND The peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is increasingly used in protracted intravenous therapy. The device has several advantages for family practice, but its use has been chiefly described in nursing and interventional radiology literature. We investigated the use of the PICC in a family practice teaching hospital. METHODS Forty PICCs were inserted from 1993 to 1995 in 2...