Swiss medical weekly
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Swiss medical weekly · Oct 2009
Long-term cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality in women and men with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a 30-year follow-up in Switzerland.
While studies from other countries have shown an excess mortality in diabetic individuals when compared with the general population, comparable long-term data is not available for Switzerland. ⋯ Patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes had an increased long-term mortality compared with the general Swiss population. Excess mortality was higher in type 1 compared with type 2 diabetes and in women compared with men for both types of diabetes, but steadily decreased over the last two decades.
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Swiss medical weekly · Sep 2009
Targeting burn prevention in the paediatric population : a prospective study of children's burns in the Lausanne area.
Domestic accidents are an important problem in paediatric medicine. This study was designed to gain a better understanding of burn mechanisms and target prevention. ⋯ If we were to describe the highest "at risk" candidate for a burn in our region, it would be a boy aged 15 months to 5 years who is burned by a cup of hot liquid on his hand, at home, around mealtime, in the presence of one or both parents. Reduced attention in the safe domestic setting is probably responsible.
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Swiss medical weekly · Jul 2009
Comparative StudyEmergency medicine training: a prospective, comparative study of an undergraduate clinical clerkship and an army programme.
To evaluate and compare the educational impact of the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine (UGFM) emergency medicine clerkship training with that provided by the Swiss Army medical officer cadets school (ARMY). The assessment was designed to assess students' clinical knowledge and competency in major emergency situations, ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and ATLS (Advanced Traumatic Life Support). ⋯ In general, the multimethod assessment seemed to provide a complementary approach to evaluation of the trainees' competency in emergency training. Except for the ARMY MCQ performance, both training programmes seemed to be effective in improving trainees' overall knowledge and clinical performance. The trainees' performances are reviewed and discussed in terms of the specific skills assessed on the SOE, the context of the trainees' expected level of performance, the teaching and evaluation approaches, and implications in establishing the equivalence of the two programmes.