survey on Jazan public awareness about the role of the anesthesiologists

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

Systemic lupus erythematosus presenting with fulminant autoimmune hemolytic anemia

We describe a female patient 9-year- old girl with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [SLE] who developed a fulminant autoimmune hemolytic anemia [AIHA] as an isolated symptom of her underlying disease. On admission, laboratory investigations were conducted and revealed high ESR 150 mmh, severe anemia Hb was 3.4 g/dl with reticulocytosis 9%, low platelet count 74 10

Effect of social media network on social relations and academic achievement among medical students

Background: Social networks influence the lives of individuals and communities. They have several advantages; however, they have many disadvantages including its adverse effect on social life and academic performance of students. They are reasons for time-consuming, individuals can even addict these sites

Aim of the work: this study aimed to determine impact of social media on academic performance and social relationships as well as factors associated with social media and pattern of using social media

Methods: This was an observational cross-sectional study which was conducted in Jazan University; it included 205 [45.1%] male students and 250 [54.9%] female medical students. A questionnaire was used to perform this study. SPSS was used to analyze data

Results: The present results showed that the most common used sites were facebook [53%], 65.9% of students used social networks for more than three years, 58.5% used these sites for 2 to 4 hours. Gender was a significant factor regarding using Facebook and WhatsApp [P-value=0.001, 0.004 respectively], the only significance was found between the different academic years was regarding WhatsApp [Pvalue=0.001] which was commonly used by fourth-year students [46.1%]. Both numbers of hours and using social media during lectures influenced study level [P-value=0.01, 0.021 respectively]

Conclusion: The most common social site used was Face book and the social media affected the academic performance of students negatively. Social media has both positive and negative effect on social relations

effectiveness of gamma knife surgery in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: a systematic review

Introduction: Gamma knife surgery is one of the stereotactic surgery which recently used in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia due to its minimally invasive nature. The short-term effectiveness of gamma knife surgery in a reduction of pain episodes among patients with trigeminal neuralgia are reported by several studies. However, few studies elaborated the long-term effectiveness of gamma knife surgery

Objective: This review aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of gamma knife surgery by reviewing of pain relief rates and recurrence rates reported by the included studies

Methods: The electronic search was conducted in Medline, EmBase and Science direct databases using the key words of [Gamma knife surgery AND trigeminal neuralgia]. The search of the literature, after exclusion of irrelevant, duplicated and review studies revealed 8 studies met the inclusion criteria. The data extraction conducted using data extraction sheet regarding characteristics such as duration of symptoms, number of trigeminal divisions involved, lack of sensation or surgery before surgery, anatomical results in the operation, the rate of pain relief and pain recurrence rate

Results: The history of surgery and medications before gamma knife radio surgery was assessed by included studies. It was found that only one study used gamma knife surgery as their first treatment of choice with no prior surgery. The pain relief rate ranged from 73.8% to 96% while pain recurrence rate, which reported in four included studies ranged from 2% to 26.3%

Conclusions: The gamma knife surgery was not the first surgical choice of treatment in most of the studies. The reported pain relief rates associated with this new technique were generally high while pain recurrence rates were low. As the worst reported scenario found about a quarter of patients complained of pain recurrence following gamma knife surgery