Infective endocarditis secondary to mycoplasma pneumoniae

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) is a gram-positive bacterium most commonly associated with community-acquired pneumonia in adults. It can also involve other systems of the body. Cardiovascular complications include pericarditis, myocarditis, congestive cardiac failure, and, rarely, infective endocarditis. We report a case of infective endocarditis secondary to MP infection in an adult. We treated our patient with doxycycline, which showed significant improvement

Gap between theoretical and practical knowledge of basic medical procedures in medical students of D.U.H.S.

Objective: To evaluate and compare the level of knowledge and practical experience of fourth and final year students, of three basic medical procedures namely IV cannulation, urinary catheterization and nasogastric intubation. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey of 400 fourth and final year M.B.B.S students, recruited by purposive sampling from Dow Medical College, Sindh Medical College and Dow International Medical College. A self-administered questionnaire was used and students were asked to retrospectively reflect on their clinical knowledge and skills of three basic medical procedures namely intra-venous cannulation, nasogastric tube intubation and urinary catheterization. Data was analyzed on SPSS v16.0 using simple descriptive statistics and chi-square test applied to calculate association of different variables with year of study with statistical significance set at 0.5