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Fulltext APACHE II: preliminary report on 100 intensive care unit cases in University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur

Teoh GS, Mah KK, Majid S, Streram, Yee MK

Med J Malaysia, 1991 Mar;46(1):72-81.
PMID: 1836042

A good overall assessment of the severity of illnesses of patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU) is not without problems. The APACHE (acute physiology and chronic health evaluation) prognostic scoring system enables us to stratify acutely ill patients and compare efficiency of ICU therapy in different hospitals. This preliminary study carried out on 100 consecutive admissions to the ICU in University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur showed the spectrum of ICU admissions and the direct relationship between APACHE II score and mortality.

Matched MeSH terms: Acute Disease/therapy
Fulltext Dieulafoy's lesion: an unexpected and rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Rajanthran SK, Singh HC, Than DJ, Hayati F

BMJ Case Rep, 2020 Dec 23;13(12).
PMID: 33361139 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2020-240905
Matched MeSH terms: Acute Disease/therapy
Clinical experience of medical students in a developing country

Malik AS, Quah BS

Educ Health (Abingdon), 2003 Jul;16(2):163-75.
PMID: 14741902

OBJECTIVE: This paper compares the clinical experience in acute conditions of the undergraduate students of a medical school from a developing country (Malaysia) with those from a developed country (UK).
METHODS: This study was conducted at the School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Through questionnaire survey enquiry was made about 27 acute medical conditions (i.e. conditions related to internal medicine, paediatrics, and psychiatry), 15 acute surgical conditions (i.e. conditions related to general surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, gynaecology and obstetrics), 15 surgical operations and 26 practical procedures. The results obtained were compared with published data from the UK.
RESULTS: Acute medical conditions were seen by higher number of the USM students but with less frequency than the British students. The USM students saw practical procedures more frequently than the British students did, but almost an equal number performed these procedures independently. The British students attended surgical operations more frequently than the USM students did.
CONCLUSION: Given the limitations of comparison (epidemiological, cultural and geographical differences, conventional curriculum (in the British medical schools) vs. problem based learning curriculum (in the Malaysian medical school)) the overall clinical experience of the medical students in the USM and the UK was comparable. The USM students had more opportunities to observe cases and procedures but "hands on" experience was similar to that of the British students.

Matched MeSH terms: Acute Disease/therapy
Fulltext Effectiveness of a quality improvement collaborative in reducing time to surgery for patients requiring emergency cholecystectomy

Bamber JR, Stephens TJ, Cromwell DA, Duncan E, Martin GP, Quiney NF, et al.

BJS Open, 2019 12;3(6):802-811.
PMID: 31832587 DOI: 10.1002/bjs5.50221

Background: Acute gallstone disease is a high-volume emergency general surgery presentation with wide variations in the quality of care provided across the UK. This controlled cohort evaluation assessed whether participation in a quality improvement collaborative approach reduced time to surgery for patients with acute gallstone disease to fewer than 8 days from presentation, in line with national guidance.
Methods: Patients admitted to hospital with acute biliary conditions in England and Wales between 1 April 2014 and 31 December 2017 were identified from Hospital Episode Statistics data. Time series of quarterly activity were produced for the Cholecystectomy Quality Improvement Collaborative (Chole-QuIC) and all other acute National Health Service hospitals (control group). A negative binomial regression model was used to compare the proportion of patients having surgery within 8 days in the baseline and intervention periods.
Results: Of 13 sites invited to join Chole-QuIC, 12 participated throughout the collaborative, which ran from October 2016 to January 2018. Of 7944 admissions, 1160 patients had a cholecystectomy within 8 days of admission, a significant improvement (P

Matched MeSH terms: Acute Disease/therapy