The use of simulation to imitate real-life scenarios reaches back many centuries. In the last decade, the use of simulation in healthcare has gained acceptance as a valuable tool for teaching and learning technical and nontechnical skills in healthcare. The use of simulation technology has moved medical education from the standard of pen and paper examinations to the assessment of clinical comp...

OBJECTIVE Determining dental caries' experience, prevalence and severity in students applying for degree courses at San Luis Potosi University (UASLP). MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out involving adolescents and young adults (16 to 25 years old) applying for undergraduate courses at UASLP (approximately 10 %, n=1 027). Two standardized examiners undertook dental exa...

The World Health Organisation and International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment charts have been implemented in many low- and middle-income countries as part of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease (PEN) Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource settings. Evaluation of the WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts and their us...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study is to assess the influence of tool holding on brain activities during motor imagery in two tasks: imagining the movement of writing the alphabet while holding a pen and without holding the pen. [Subjects and Methods] Eleven healthy right-handed adults performed two tasks, holding a pen and not holding the pen during imagining the movement of writing the alpha...

Recent findings have shown that information about changes in an object's environmental location in the context of discourse is stored in working memory during sentence comprehension. However, in these studies, changes in the object's location were always consistent with world knowledge (e.g., in "The writer picked up the pen from the floor and moved it to the desk," the floor and the desk are b...

PURPOSE The experience at a medium-sized regional medical center participating in the ASHP MENTORED QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IMPACT PROGRAM℠ (MQIIP) on Insulin Pen Safety in Hospitals is described. SUMMARY With the support of top hospital leaders, Munson Medical Center (MMC) applied in June 2014 to participate in the MQIIP to complement its ongoing risk assessment related to the use of pen devices...

Pen injectors for the administration of insulin have been available since the 1980s. The first insulin pen, NovoPen®, was introduced by Novo in 1985 (http://www.novonordisk.com/about_us/history/step-by-step.asp). In the years since, insulin pens have seen innovation in both features and functionality, and many more manufacturers have entered the market. This analysis discusses several features ...

Oral Health and Social Inequalities are intrinsically interrelated. Aim: assess the association of dental caries in relation with socio-economic status, age and sex in population of Lucknow. Material & MethodAn epidemiological study was conducted in a dental teaching hospital of Lucknow. Oral examination was performed to record DMFT and DMFS scores. Data regarding age, sex, and socioeconomic st...

The aim of this experiment was to study the effects of pen size and parity on maternal behaviour of twin-bearing Small-Tail Han ewes. A total of 24 ewes were allocated to a 2×2 design (six per pen), with parity (primiparous or multiparous) and pen size (large: 6.0×3.0 m; small: 6.0×1.5 m) as main effects at Linyi University, Shandong Province, China. Behaviour was observed from after parturitio...