OBJECTIVES To identify the barriers to and facilitators of implementing guidelines for targeted temperature management (TTM) after cardiac arrest perceived by hospital resuscitation champions and to investigate the changes in their perceptions over the early implementation period. DESIGN A longitudinal qualitative study (up to 2 serial semistructured interviews over 1 year and focus groups). ...

Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) infection in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) has a detrimental effect on morbidity and mortality. There is clear well referenced guidance the diagnostic criteria for chronic PA how to treat it. However, nebulised treatment burdensome guidelines do not advise manage who stop isolating specifically, if should be discontinued. This particularly important era ...

BACKGROUND The facilities which should be available to physicians offering specialist occupational asthma services have recently been agreed upon by a UK panel of experts. AIMS This study aimed to investigate whether these facilities are available in UK non-specialist secondary care respiratory departments and to document tertiary care referral patterns. METHODS A random sample of 100 UK re...

INTRODUCTION Malignant odontogenic tumours (MOTs) are relatively rare tumours and only few cases have been reported in the sub-Sahara African literature. The aim of this study was to describe the demographic distribution of malignant odontogenic tumours in two tertiary health centres based on the current WHO 2005 classification scheme. METHODS We reviewed 21 malignant odontogenic tumours out ...

In chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP), lack of improvement or declining lung function may prompt use of immunosuppressive therapy. We hypothesised that use of azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil with prednisone reduces adverse events and lung function decline, and improves transplant-free survival. Patients with CHP were identified. Demographic features, pulmonary function tests, inci...

The study investigated the effects of students’ indiscipline and factors responsible for its ineffective management in tertiary educational institutions Sokoto state, Nigeria. employed a mixed method approach involving 3270 academic staff 4344 final year students all higher State. A Survey which was validated by experts whose reliability coefficient established at 0.9, distributed to sample 692...