Cardiopulmonary resuscitation discussions with patients admitted to acute oncology wards: A national audit of current practice.

Objectives: To map current practice regarding discussions around resuscitation across England and Scotland in patients with cancer admitted acutely to hospital and to demonstrate the value of medical students in rapidly collecting national audit data.

Methods: Collaborators from the Macmillan medical student network collected data from 251 patient encounters across eight hospitals in England and Scotland. Data were collected to identify whether discussion regarding resuscitation was documented as having taken place during inpatient admission to acute oncology.

Can a tool developed for industry be used to assess fatigue risk in medical rotas? A pilot study of foundation doctors' rotas in a tertiary centre.

Objectives: To determine the feasibility and ease of using a pre-existing health and safety executive fatigue risk calculator to assess doctors' rotas.

Design: Observational.

Setting: A large tertiary-referral teaching hospital in the UK.

Closure methods of the appendix stump for complications during laparoscopic appendectomy.

Background: Laparoscopic appendectomy is amongst the most common general surgical procedures performed in the developed world. Arguably, the most critical part of this procedure is effective closure of the appendix stump to prevent catastrophic intra-abdominal complications from a faecal leak into the abdominal cavity. A variety of methods to close the appendix stump are used worldwide; these can be broadly divided into traditional ligatures (such as intracorporeal or extracorporeal ligatures or Roeder loops) and mechanical devices (such as stapling devices, clips, or electrothermal devices).

Design and evaluation of meningococcal vaccines through structure-based modification of host and pathogen molecules.

Neisseria meningitis remains a leading cause of sepsis and meningitis, and vaccines are required to prevent infections by this important human pathogen. Factor H binding protein (fHbp) is a key antigen that elicits protective immunity against the meningococcus and recruits the host complement regulator, fH. As the high affinity interaction between fHbp and fH could impair immune responses, we sought to identify non-functional fHbps that could act as effective immunogens.

Project Swaziland (Part 4): occlusal status of 12 year old school children.

The Occlusal Index of Summers (1966) was used to determine the prevalence of occlusal disorders, various features of malocclusion and to estimate the orthodontic treatment needs of 12-year-old Swazi school children in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The results indicate that the current occlusal status of Swazi school children should be maintained and if possible, improved and that the delivery of highly specialised orthodontic treatment procedures is not required.