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Background: anesthesiology has been considered as a behind the scene specialty. Most patients lack the knowledge about the anesthetist's role and there are few who know about anesthesia, but still considered having poor knowledge. People thought that anesthetist plays a secondary role in surgery and the role assigned to the anesthesiologist remains inaccurate for most of them
Aim of the work: our study aimed to assess the society's perception in Gazan area of Saudi Arabia about anesthetist's role and duties in surgery and their knowledge about anesthesia
Method: a total of 744 responded to the questionnaire. Out of the responders, 445 [59.8%] were males, and 299 [40.2%] were females. 432 [58%] participant considered having sufficient knowledge about anesthesia, while 312 [42%] still didn't have sufficient knowledge about it. 514 [69%] responders admitted that anesthesia is safe, while 230 [31%] responders thought that it's not-safe
Results: 744 participated in our study, out of which 445 [59.8%] were males and 299 [40.2%] were the participated females. 432 [58.1%] of the sample study had sufficient knowledge about anesthesia, while 312 [41.9%] didn't having sufficient data. Our study also showed a correlation between the education level and the knowledge about anesthesia and anesthetists
Conclusion: our study revealed the poor knowledge of Gazan inhabitants about anesthesia, anesthetists and pre-operative care. The poor knowledge may be due to the limited interaction between the anesthetist and the patient, thus the anesthetist has the duty to visit the patient before surgery
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Background: chronic Sinusitis results from the impairment of paranasal sinus ventilation. Symptoms of chronic sinusitis include facial pressure, fullness or pain, nasal obstruction, headache, clear or mucopurulent nasal discharge and hyposmia or anosmia. Risk factors of chronic sinusitis involve smoking, allergy, septal deviation, aspirin sensitivity and bronchial asthma
Objective: to determine the prevalence of chronic sinusitis and its related risk factor as well as correlation with demographics
Methods: the present study included 867 participants using Monkey survey for investigation which included 20 questions
Results: there were 25.3% of participants had chronic sinusitis, 26.4% of the males and 22.4% of females suffer from the disease. Chronic sinusitis was more prevailed among young, the younger aged participants in addition to those living in rural area. Chronic sinusitis was less prevalent in married persons and those working in a medical job. Presence of any type of allergy was a risk factor for chronic sinusitis
Conclusion: chronic sinusitis and allergy consider as risk factors for chronic sinusitis
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Background: The association between diabetes mellitus and dementia is not well-established such that found between diabetes mellitus and vascular diseases. This article aimed at reviewing the longitudinal prospective studies which evaluated the association between diabetes mellitus and incidence of dementia among different age groups of patients
Methods: An electronic search was performed by Google Scholar, PubMed, and Sciencedirect to identify all relevant articles. The number of eligible articles based on titles and abstracts were 21 eligible articles. After that, the irrelevant, duplicated and other reviews studies were excluded based on, which resulted in the exclusion of 13 irrelevant articles. Finally, 7 articles were included in this review. The data collected about mean age of the population, type and duration of diabetes, the strength of association and the statistical significance
Results: The strength of association between dementia and diabetes mellitus varied in the included studies, the reported ratios varied from a relative risk of 1.2 to a 4.77. Regarding the statistical significance of these associations, all the studied articles revealed significant associations with P values less than 0.05
Conclusion: This review supported the evidence of the association between diabetes mellitus and occurrence of dementia depending on the findings of the recent epidemiological studies