The effectiveness of clinical problem-based learning model of medico-jurisprudence education on general law knowledge for Obstetrics/Gynecological interns.

Objective: The effective education method of medico-jurisprudence for medical students is unclear. The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) model teaching medico-jurisprudence in clinical setting on General Law Knowledge (GLK) for medical students.

Materials And Methods: Senior medical students attending either campus-based law curriculum or Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) clinical setting morning meeting from February to July in 2015 were enrolled.

Risk of autistic disorder after exposure to general anaesthesia and surgery: a nationwide, retrospective matched cohort study.

Background: Deficits of learning, memory and cognition have been observed in newborn animals exposed to general anaesthetics. However, conclusions from clinical studies conducted in humans to investigate the relationship between anaesthesia and neurodevelopmental disorders have been inconsistent. Autistic disorder is typically recognised earlier than other neurobehavioural disorders.

Inappropriate use of standard error of the mean when reporting variability of study samples: a critical evaluation of four selected journals of obstetrics and gynecology.

Objective: The study was designed to investigate the frequency of misusing standard error of the mean (SEM) in place of standard deviation (SD) to describe study samples in four selected journals published in 2011. Citation counts of articles and the relationship between the misuse rate and impact factor, immediacy index, or cited half-life were also evaluated.

Materials And Methods: All original articles in the four selected journals published in 2011 were searched for descriptive statistics reporting with either mean ± SD or mean ± SEM.

The relation between oxygen consumption and the equilibrated inspired oxygen fraction in an anesthetic circle breathing system: a mathematic formulation & laboratory simulations.

Measuring a patients' oxygen consumption (VO2) is valuable in critical care and during anesthesia. Up to now, there has been no satisfactory equation describing the relation between the VO2, the fresh gas, and F(I)O(2) in a semi-closed circle breathing system. By adopting a "volume-weighted average concentration" approach and stepwise calculations, we have proposed an equation.

Anesthetic management of dental procedures in mentally handicapped patients.

Background: Providing dental care to a mentally handicapped patient is a challenge to both dentist and anesthesiologist. This study was aimed to describe the anesthetic methods which were used to facilitate dental treatments in mentally handicapped patients at a medical university hospital in Taiwan during a three-year period.

Methods: The data referring to anesthetic techniques to facilitate dental treatments during the period from Dec.