Current opinion in anaesthesiology
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Patient safety is topical today. Competent professionals are necessary to keep anesthesia care safe, and teaching trainees is an important element in safety work. The purpose of this review is to present the latest research on anesthesia training and trainees. ⋯ Much research about anesthesia training concerns simulator training and assessment of trainees' competence. More research is needed to understand the process of learning anesthesia.
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Dec 2012
ReviewDilemmas in biomedical research publication: are we losing the plot?
Some recent and very controversial developments in the sphere of scientific publication, with significant implications for biomedical research, are posing a significant threat to traditional publication models. Many of these developments appear to be the result of a vicious circle that has developed from publication pressure on researchers, corporate financial exploitation of those pressures, and an apparent perception that individual and institutional reputations are to be promoted at all cost. ⋯ In many different respects, biomedical research publication is now in an unprecedented state of flux. Traditional models are being strongly challenged, probably with good reason, and alternative models of both funding and delivery need to be settled upon with some urgency. While individuals, institutions and corporate bodies who resist the current evolution may find themselves in line for extinction, at the same time it is important for the entire 'industry' to revert to some more traditional values and not allow self-interest to prevail.
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Dec 2012
ReviewDifficult airway management in an ambulatory surgical center?
This review will focus on two key aspects of difficult airway management in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC). First, the selection process of patients with known difficult airways suitable for this environment, and second, the requirements of a difficult airway cart to manage unexpected airway problems. ⋯ The management of ambulatory surgical practices must provide suitable difficult airway management equipment as well as technical and nontechnical training. Patients may present to an ASC with expected and unexpected difficult airways. Appropriate management of these patients requires advance planning to avoid poor outcomes.
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Dec 2012
ReviewIntroduction of evidence-based medicine in undergraduate medical curriculum for development of professional competencies in medical students.
Current undergraduate medical curricula in most institutions around the globe do not nurture the skills, needed for self-directed lifelong learning in medical graduates, and it needs to be reformed in such a way that the medical graduate who is trained through this reformed curriculum, possesses all the competencies of a self-directed learner. Evidence-based medicine (EBM), a new vision of physician learning which is based on continuous development and assessment of competencies needed for creating self-directed learners is to be strongly advocated for inclusion in the undergraduate medical curriculum. ⋯ Introduction of EBM in undergraduate medical curriculum helps in the development of professional competencies of self-directed learners in medical students.