Publications by authors named "Saleh Jawad"
Background: Tranexamic acid (TXA) reduces rates of blood transfusion for total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Although the use of oral TXA rather than intravenous (i.v.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey: an analysis of 47,258 timetabled teaching events in 25 UK medical schools relating to timing, duration, teaching formats, teaching content, and problem-based learning.
BMC Med
May 2020
Background: What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides a detailed picture of timetabled undergraduate teaching activity at 25 UK medical schools, particularly in relation to problem-based learning (PBL).
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- Medical schools in the UK exhibit significant differences in various aspects, including teaching styles, entry criteria, and postgraduate performance, prompting the MedDifs study to explore these variations.
- The study analyzed aggregated data from 29 medical schools, focusing on 50 different measures such as curricular influences, student satisfaction, and specialty training outcomes.
- Results indicate that while differences in medical schools are consistent over time, schools using problem-based learning (PBL) tend to have lower postgraduate performance despite higher satisfaction with feedback, suggesting a complex relationship between teaching methods and outcomes.
Background And Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a risk factor for adverse postoperative outcome and perioperative professional societies recommend the use of regional anesthesia to minimize perioperative detriment. We studied the impact of OSA on postoperative complications in a high-volume orthopedic surgery practice, with a strong focus on regional anesthesia.
Methods: After Institutional Review Board approval, 41 766 cases of primary total hip and knee arthroplasties (THAs/TKAs) from 2005 to 2014 were extracted from institutional data of the Hospital for Special Surgery (approximately 5000 THAs and 5000 TKAs annually, of which around 90% under neuraxial anesthesia).