An audit on surgery cancellation in a teaching hospital.

Background: Operative procedure cancellations are a dilemma for the healthcare system as well as for the patients. It causes increased workload and cost to our system. For patients, it has major financial, psychological as well as medical consequences.

Uses of simulation-based education for anesthesiology training, certification and recertification: A scoping review.

Objectives: To conduct a comprehensive scoping review focusing on published anesthesiology-specific training based on simulation to assess up-to-date uses of simulation-based education in anesthesiology training. Our goal was to establish a solid ground for building standardized and accredited curricula for simulation-based education in the specialty of anesthesia in the near future.

Methods: We searched the PubMed, CINAHL and EMBASE databases on May 10, 2021 for relevant articles.

Formulating interprofessional anesthesiology and operating room clinical management pathway during COVID-19 pandemic using experiential learning theory in a university hospital in Saudi Arabia.

As the number of COVID-19 cases is rapidly increasing internationally, management, recommendations and guidelines of COVID-19 are rapidly evolving and changing. Formulating local clinical management policies among institutions adopting these recommendations is vital to staff as well as the patients' safety. Also, training multidisciplinary teams on these policies is an important, yet challenging, part of the process.

Objective Measurement of Learners' Cognitive Load During Simulation-Based Trauma Team Training: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: Literature has shown cognitive overload which can negatively impact learning and clinical performance in surgery. We investigated learners' cognitive load during simulation-based trauma team training using an objective digital biomarker.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a simulation center where a 3-h simulation-based interprofessional trauma team training program was conducted.

Maintaining health professional education during war: A scoping review.

Purpose: War negatively impacts health professional education when health care is needed most. The aims of this scoping review are to describe the scope of barriers and targeted interventions to maintaining health professional education during war and summarise the research.

Methods: We conducted a scoping review between 20 June 2018 and 2 August 2018.

Scoping Review of Off-Label Topical Analgesia in Palliative, Hospice and Cancer Care: Towards Flexibility in Evidence-Based Medicine.

Purpose: Scoping reviews address the nature of the literature per se rather than inferring evidence-based treatment guidelines. Scoping reviews of the published literature are intended to describe the aggregated nature of the evidence surrounding some agent or intervention, in contrast to systematic reviews that seek when possible to guide clinical practice. We conducted a scoping review to identify reports of potential clinical utility of off-label topical analgesics and adjuvants when FDA-approved treatments have proven inadequate.

A Scoping Literature Review of Simulation Training Program Curriculum Standards.

Simulation educator training is well supported in the literature and endorsed by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare as well as the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Despite growth of domestic and international training programs, there is a lack of consensus regarding curriculum standards. Our aim was to identify core curricular components of comprehensive simulation training programs.

Developing Consensus on Simulation Fellowship Requirements on the Path to Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education Accreditation.

Introduction: Nonaccredited simulation fellowships have multiplied resulting in fellowship differences. Standardization of fellowship content and requirements is needed, especially if accreditation is to be achieved. Simulation fellowship criteria were developed using expert consensus and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements to frame the supporting pillars for accreditation.

Gaps identification in Saudi anesthesia residency training during early time of pandemic: Trainee view.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic was declared a worldwide crisis, as a response the community established new protocols and clinical pathways to prepare the health system in adapting to the expected surge of cases.

Objectives: In this study, we aim to assess the effect of the pandemic on the anesthesia training program residents from their own view. Identification of gaps in training programs will help to overcome the challenge like pandemic in order to have competent anesthesia practitioners.

Topical anaesthetics for pain control during repair of dermal laceration.

Background: Topical local anaesthetics provide effective analgesia for patients undergoing numerous superficial procedures, including repair of dermal lacerations. The need for cocaine in topical anaesthetic formulations has been questioned because of concern about adverse effects, thus novel preparations of cocaine-free anaesthetics have been developed. This review was originally published in 2011 and has been updated in 2017.

Durations of Opioid, Nonopioid Drug, and Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Pain: Adequate or Inadequate?

Objectives: A recent US federal review and clinical guideline on opioids for chronic pain asserted that the literature contributes no evidence on efficacy because all trials had "inadequate duration." To explore the evidence, we examined durations of studies on opioid, nonopioid drug, and behavioral therapies for chronic pain.

Methods: We retrieved Cochrane reviews of anticonvulsants, antidepressants, NSAIDs, opioids, or behavioral interventions for chronic pain.