Length of stay and patient satisfaction after appendectomy

Objective: This review to show the degree of patient satisfaction and length of stay after laparoscopic appendectomy or open appendectomy. Moreover, the degree of appendicitis was considered either acute appendicitis or perforated appendicitis which can result in complications like sepsis, peritonitis and gangrene

Data sources: [PubMed, Google Scholar] have been searched for papers that addressed patient satisfaction and length of stay after appendectomy, preoperative appendicitis status and the operation used for appendectomy were considered during searching

Results: It was obvious that patient who have undergone laparoscopic appendectomy were more satisfied and had short length of stay after the operation neither than patients who have undergone open appendectomy who were less satisfied and had longer length of stay. Also, it was clear that patient with acute appendicitis were more satisfied with short length of stay neither than patients with perforated appendicitis who were less satisfied with longer length of stay

Laparoscopic surgery compared to open surgery in excision of rectal cancer: a systematic review

Background: The laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer, such as open surgery, is associated with many surgical complications, especially if the surgeon does not have sufficient experience in open total mesorectal excision and advanced laparoscopic surgery. This review aiming at comparing the effectiveness and the complications rate of laparoscopic surgery to those of open surgery

Methods: The comprehensive electronic search was conducted in Medline and Embase databases. The search resulted in 102 relevant clinical trials, which were subjected to primary screening and exclusion of ineligible studies. Finally, 32 potentially relevant clinical trials were included in the secondary screening from which nine clinical trials were included in this review. Data were collected from included studies using data extraction forms, then the qualitative synthesis of extracted data was conducted

Results: Small differences between interventions were reported by the included studies. Five-years survival rates tend to be slightly higher in the open surgery, whereas 3-years survival rates were higher in the laparoscopic surgery. It be attributed to the wider safe margin for tumor excision obtained in open surgery. The complications rates were slightly lower in the laparoscopy groups among most of the included studies

Conclusions: This review found comparable outcomes of laparoscopy and open surgery in treatment of rectal cancer with minimal differences in survival and complications rates

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