Assessment of employee engagement in pharmaceutical care service at King Abdulaziz Medical City - Central region (KAMC): A cross-sectional study.

Background: Job engagement and satisfaction are crucial for any successful institution, in recent years, organizations around the globe have begun measuring the engagement level of employees in order to improve productivity and profitability. Employee engagement has the potential to significantly affect employee retention and loyalty. This study was conducted by the pharmacy-Quality Improvement Section to assess pharmacy staff engagement in KAMC-CR in 2019 and to develop a tool to be used as employee engagement key performance indicator (KPI).

Pre-transplant management and sensitisation in vascularised composite allotransplantation: A systematic review.

Introduction: Vascularised composite allotransplantation (VCA) permits like-for-like reconstruction following extensive soft tissue injuries. The initial management of extensive soft tissue injury can lead to the development of anti-HLA antibodies through injury-related factors, transfusion and cadaveric grafting. The role of antibody-mediated rejection, donor-specific antibody formation and graft rejection in the context of VCA remains unclear.

A 5-year single-centre retrospective study of potential drug interactions in burns inpatients with psychiatric comorbidities.

Introduction: Burns patients with psychiatric comorbidities may be at increased risk of harm from drug interactions. We aimed to identify the most common classes of drug involved, the potential clinical effects and any clinical evidence for their occurrence.

Methods: The International Burn Injury Database was used to identify all admission episodes for patients with a psychiatric comorbidity over a 5-year period at an adult regional burns unit.

Surgical Skills Workshops Should Be a Part of the United Kingdom Undergraduate Medical Curriculum.

Introduction:  Medical students across the United Kingdom (UK) report poor satisfaction with surgical teaching. The Surgical Skills Day (SSD) begins to address this by exposing medical students to surgery through an easily accessible one-day practical workshop. This study shows how the SSD encourages undergraduate engagement in surgery.

Spontaneous resolution of nitrofurantoin-induced chronic pulmonary toxicity presenting with respiratory failure.

Nitrofurantoin is one of the most common drugs implicated in drug-induced pulmonary toxicities, the manifestations of which range from dose-independent acute self-limiting reactions to chronic dose-dependent pathologies. The severity of these pulmonary adverse effects may range from trivial hypersensitivity reactions to extensive and irreversible lung fibrosis leading to respiratory failure and death. Symptomatic and supportive treatment in addition to discontinuation of the drug usually suffices for the management of mild reactions.

Assessment of Myocardial Microstructural Dynamics by In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.

Background: Cardiomyocytes are organized in microstructures termed sheetlets that reorientate during left ventricular thickening. Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance (DT-CMR) may enable noninvasive interrogation of in vivo cardiac microstructural dynamics. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a condition of abnormal myocardium with unknown sheetlet function.