Impact and effectiveness of a mandatory competency-based simulation program for pediatric emergency medicine faculty.

Introduction: Pediatric emergency medicine physicians struggle to maintain their critical procedural and resuscitation skills. Continuing professional development programs incorporating simulation and competency-based standards may help ensure skill maintenance. Using a logic model framework, we sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a mandatory annual competency-based medical education (CBME) simulation program.

Development and implementation of a novel, mandatory competency-based medical education simulation program for pediatric emergency medicine faculty.

Background: Maintaining acute care physician competence is critically important. Current maintenance of certification (MOC) programs has started to incorporate simulation-based education (SBE). However, competency expectations have not been defined.

An innovative on-call system for paediatric residency programs: The alternate night float.

Background: Night-float systems, in which residents work consecutive nights, have been increasingly adopted in paediatric programs, but may be detrimental to residents' sleep and mood.

Objective: To describe the self-reported impact of a novel system consisting of two consecutive weeks of 16 h overnight shifts every second day that was piloted at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, Ontario).

Methods: A survey of 28 senior paediatric residents examined their experience with the alternate night-float system in three domains (patient care, resident professional development and well-being) and their comparison of the system with the traditional overnight on-call system.

Accuracy of ultrasonography for determining successful realignment of pediatric forearm fractures.

Study Objective: The primary objective of this study is to assess the accuracy of point-of-care ultrasonography compared with blinded orthopedic assessment of fluoroscopy in determining successful realignment of pediatric forearm fractures. The secondary objective is to determine the rate of agreement of ultrasonography and fluoroscopy in real-time by the treating physician.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in children younger than 18 years and presenting to an academic emergency department with forearm fractures requiring realignment of a single bone.

Short-course ondansetron for the prevention of methotrexate-induced nausea in children with Crohn disease.

Objectives: Methotrexate (MTX) is an effective treatment for Crohn disease (CD); however, its application may be limited by the occurrence of nausea. We assessed whether a short course of ondansetron minimized this adverse event.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective case-control study of patients with CD who received MTX at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario between 2001 and 2009 was conducted.

[An attempt to determine the variability of thermal phenotypes in monozygotic twins].

Introduction: All solid bodies emit electromagnetic radiation at temperatures above absolute zero. The radiation spectrum depends, among other factors, on temperature. Thermovision is a method in which an infrared camera is used to record infrared radiation (IR) emitted by human skin.

[Evaluation of the usefulness of serological examinations in the prophylaxis of congenital toxoplasmosis in the materials of CM UJ Parasitology Department].

A total of 9661 persons, mainly from southern region of Poland, were tested by using Sabin-Feldman dye test and ELISA test to determine the IgG class in the years 1991-2000. The tests were positive in 5297 persons (54.8%).

Reactivation of hepatitis B infection following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in a hepatitis B-immune patient: case report and review of the literature.

Background: Reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation is a rare phenomenon.

Methods: Reverse seroconversion, defined as the clearance of antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAb) and the appearance of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in a patient with resolved HBV infection (i.e.

[A case of considerable incongruence between the expected and actual height of an individual, who was identified with methods of super-projection and comparative testing of DNA].

Anthropology is used, among others, in forensic medicine for identification of skeletal remains. The case we would like to introduce concerns the remains of an unknown man, which were subjected to identification tests in anthropological laboratory of the Forensic Medicine Department PAM. Anthropological analysis let us define the basic distinctive features, on the basis of which police selected an individual, whose features corresponded with the collected data.

[Application of anthropometric methods in comparative identification based on monitoring recordings].

In recent years more and more often cases have occurred concerning identification of suspects of various crimes for eg. car theft from parking lots in front of supermarkets or money from ATMS. It often happens that such places are monitored twenty-four hours a day.

[Dating the time of death of an unknown individual on the basis of remnants of material culture--a case study].

The anthropological laboratory of the Forensic Medicine Department PAM carries out a lot of cases concerning identification on the basis of skeletal remains. Standard procedures are: anthropological analysis, estimation of time of burial of the remains, characteristics of morbid changes and the cause of death as well as skull based face reconstruction and super-projection. Very often some tiny details can be useful while answering questions relating to the origin of the remains, time of death, or identity of an unknown individual.

[Artefacts in the anthropologic (craniologic) material at the archives of ZMS PAM--possible diagnostic difficulties].

In the study we presented some of the more interesting forms of artefacts which had been documented during last 7 years of the anthropological laboratory of the Forensic Med. Department of the Pomeranian Med. Univ.

Variations in temperature of the donor kidney during cold ischemia time and subsequent assessment of reperfusion using the application of thermovision camera.

Cold ischemia time (CIT) and graft reperfusion events are important nonimmunological factors that influence kidney graft function. The optimal temperature for the organs during CIT ranges from 4 degrees C to 8 degrees C. However, preservation of the designated temperature is usually not controlled during standard storage procedures.