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Simulation Based Team Training In Surgery - A Review, Syed Muhammad Nazim, Qamar Riaz
Simulation Based Team Training In Surgery - A Review, Syed Muhammad Nazim, Qamar Riaz
Section of Urology
The healthcare environment in surgery is complex, dynamic and often ambiguous. Besides subject knowledge and technical skills, other competencies, such as team work, communication skills and situation awareness, are required to ensure better patient-related outcome. Teams that demonstrate poor non-technical skills make more technical errors, often resulting in patient morbidity or mortality. Different hospital-based locations, such as operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency rooms and surgical wards, are the areas where poor team dynamics prevail. Simulation-based team training is a strategy to provide inter-professional training and experiential learning opportunities for surgeons, anaesthetists and allied health professionals. It helps them to …
Role Of Surgery In Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer, Nazim Syed Muhammad, Farhat Abbas
Role Of Surgery In Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer, Nazim Syed Muhammad, Farhat Abbas
Section of Urology
A significant proportion of patients present with locally advanced prostate cancer with inherent higher risk of local recurrence and systemic relapse after initial treatment. Recent literature favors combination of radiation therapy and extended hormonal therapy for this subset of patients. The effectiveness of Radical prostatectomy (RP) alone for locally advanced prostate cancer is controversial and is a focus of debate. However, it can decrease the tumor burden and allows the accurate and precise pathological staging with the need for subsequent treatment. Comparison of RP and other treatment modalities is difficult and incorrect because of inherent selection bias. RP as a …