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‘Disruption’ is a term that has been used in business sectors to describe a process in which an underrated product or service starts to become popular enough to replace, or displace, a conventional product or service. Disruptions in medicine often refer to events or processes that cause us to ch...

Background: Fasciotomy is essential for the prevention and management of compartment syndrome on limbs. The traditional method is to wet to dry dressing to the wide laid open wound to well prepare the wound bed for closure. Most fasciotomy wounds will require delayed primary closure and there may re...

Use of dried blood spots (DBS) to screen newborns for inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) began as a pilot study in Hong Kong (HK) in 2015. Results from the pilot study showed the collective incidence of the 24 screened conditions to be 1 in 1,682. The pilot study demonstrated feasible logistics and a...

IntroductionMild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) might not cause significant dysfunction in daily life initially, but might result in cognitive decline without appropriate intervention. There is a service gap in managing patients with MCI in the public primary care settings. The Department of Family Medi...

Simulation-based education (SBE) provides a safe and effective learning environment for learners. Historically, simulation has been widely used in military and aviation training, and was only introduced into medical education in the 1960s. In the last 20 years, concerns about patient safety have giv...

  Doctors’ and Nurses’ Perceptions on the Use of Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) for Sedation Management in a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Wu WM(1), Wan PK(1), Boo MS(1)  (1)Department of Neurosurgery, Queen Mary Hospital   Introduction:  By using a validated sedation assessme...

As the survival rate in critically ill patients improves, the morbidities and the long-term complications of the intensive care unit (ICU) survivors are increasingly recognized. Among these chronic morbidities, Intensive Care Unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) is one of the commonest. It is defined by t...

Background: Fasciotomy is essential for the prevention and management of compartment syndrome on limbs. The traditional method is to wet to dry dressing to the wide laid open wound to well prepare the wound bed for closure. Most fasciotomy wounds will require delayed primary closure and there may...

Use of dried blood spots (DBS) to screen newborns for inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) began as a pilot study in Hong Kong (HK) in 2015. Results from the pilot study showed the collective incidence of the 24 screened conditions to be 1 in 1,682. The pilot study demonstrated feasible logistics and a...