ABSTRACT
The teaching facility at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex was designed to provide a comprehensive structural environment for a multidisciplinary Faculty whose teaching methodology utilized an integrated Problem-based Learning approach. Though the Faculty is over 11 years old, the full realization of the vision has not become a reality and the next 10 years will be devoted to fulfilling the dream.
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Humans , Problem-Based Learning , Schools, Medical/organization & administration , Trinidad and Tobago , Faculty , Libraries, Medical , Curriculum , Education, MedicalABSTRACT
A 6-month-old infant presenting initially with clinical signs of bronchiolitis developed acute symptoms of large airway obstruction and respiratory failure despite treatment for bronchiolitis. Endotracheal intubation and oxygen therapy resulted in immediate and dramatic improvement of respiratory failure. Plain chest radiograph, computerized tomography and surgical biopsy with subsequent histological examination established that the respiratory failure was due to a mediastinal cystic hygroma.
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Humans , Male , Infant , Respiratory Insufficiency/etiology , Lymphangioma, Cystic/complications , Mediastinal Neoplasms/complicationsABSTRACT
Mortality, possibly related to anaesthesia, was reviewed prospectively over a 12-year period. There were 186 deaths in 129,107 anesthetics. Mortality was predominantly confined to the 15-44, and 45 - 64-year age groups. The overall mortality rate was 1:694. Sixteen deaths were directly related to regional and local anesthesia and three were direvtly related to general anesthetic management. In 66 deaths, general anesthesia was considered to be contributory, and 101 deaths were considered to be unassociated with anesthesia