Effects of board game play on nursing students' medication knowledge: A randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of an educational board game in improving nursing students' medication knowledge.

Background: Maintaining patient safety is a core practice for nurses. Medication management is a central principle of patient safety.

Prognostic impact of marginal mandibulectomy in the presence of superficial bone invasion and the nononcologic outcome.

Background: Treatment of oral cavity cancer may require variable extent of mandibular resection. Marginal mandibulectomy is a controversial technique in providing oncologic resection margin. This study analyzes the efficacy of local oncologic control and the morbidity of marginal mandibulectomy in oral cavity carcinoma.

Potential role of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and transforming growth factor (TGFβ1) in the regulation of ovarian angiogenesis.

Angiogenesis occurs during ovarian follicle development and luteinization. Pituitary secreted FSH was reported to stimulate the expression of endothelial mitogen VEGF in granulosa cells. And, intraovarian cytokine transforming growth factor (TGF)β1 is known to facilitate FSH-induced differentiation of ovarian granulosa cells.

Cardiac tamponade: a rare presentation from a rare metastatic site in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a rare cause of cardiac tamponade. We report on a 62-year-old male who presented with metastatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) that caused cardiac tamponade secondary to a primary SCC originating from the retromolar trigone of the oral cavity. The clinical diagnosis was confirmed by physical examination, echocardiography and complete resolution of symptoms after pericardial fluid drainage.

Correlation between audiovestibular function tests and hearing outcomes in severe to profound sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: This study investigated whether audiovestibular function tests, namely auditory brain stem response (ABR) and vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) tests were correlated to hearing outcomes after controlling the effects of other potential confounding factors in severe to profound sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL).

Design: Eighty-eight patients with severe to profound SSHL were enrolled in this study. Pretreatment hearing levels, results of audiovestibular function tests, and final hearing outcomes were recorded from retrospective chart reviews.

Changes in vestibular evoked myogenic potentials after Meniere attacks.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to apply videonystagmography (VNG) and vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) tests to patients with Meniere attacks, to explore the mechanics of where saccular disorders may affect the semicircular canals.

Methods: From January 2001 to December 2003, 12 consecutive patients with unilateral definite Meniere's disease with vertiginous attacks underwent VNG for recording spontaneous nystagmus, as well as VEMP tests.

Results: At the very beginning of the Meniere attack, the spontaneous nystagmus beat toward the lesion side in 5 patients (42%) and toward the healthy side in 7 patients (58%).

Side-difference of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in healthy subjects.

The aim of this study was to investigate the side-difference of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) in relation to the provocation rates, latencies and amplitudes using binaural acoustic stimulation with bilateral recording. Fourteen healthy volunteers underwent a serial VEMP testings elicited binaurally by a sequence of alternating stimulus intensities, that is, 95-95 (right-left), 85-95, 95-85, and 85-85 dBHL tone burst, respectively. The provocation rates as well as the mean latencies of p13 and n23 for the VEMPs demonstrated no significant side-difference despite using 95-95, 85-95, 95-85 and 85-85 dBHL binaural acoustic stimulation.