Caitlin Shaw
A5009612097- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Global Health and Surgery
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Media Studies and Communication
- Surgical site infection prevention
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Genital Health and Disease
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Acute Kidney Injury Research
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Contemporary Literature and Criticism
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
Newcastle University
2025
University of Bristol
2023
University of Birmingham
2020-2022
University of Göttingen
2022
National Institute for Health Research
2022
University of Edinburgh
2018-2021
Institut de Virologie
2021
University of Hertfordshire
2018-2021
University of the Incarnate Word
2020
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
2018
Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common infections associated with health care, but its importance as a global priority not fully understood. We quantified burden SSI after gastrointestinal surgery in countries all parts world.
Background80% of individuals with cancer will require a surgical procedure, yet little comparative data exist on early outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). We compared postoperative breast, colorectal, gastric surgery hospitals worldwide, focusing the effect disease stage complications mortality.MethodsThis was multicentre, international prospective cohort study consecutive adult patients undergoing for primary or requiring skin incision done under general neuraxial...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist has fostered safe practice for 10 years, yet its place in emergency surgery not been assessed on a global scale. aim of this study was to evaluate reported checklist use settings and examine the relationship with perioperative mortality patients who had laparotomy.In two multinational cohort studies, adults undergoing laparotomy were compared those having elective gastrointestinal surgery. Relationships between determined using...
Pulmonary complications are the most common cause of death after surgery. This study aimed to derive and externally validate a novel prognostic model that can be used before elective surgery estimate risk postoperative pulmonary support resource allocation prioritisation during pandemic recovery. Data from an international, prospective cohort were develop for in adult patients (aged ≥18 years) across all operation disease types. The primary outcome measure was at 30 days surgery, which...
Artifacts are common in patients who require ECG monitoring. can simulate arrhythmias such as atrial flutter and ventricular tachycardia lead to inappropriate treatment. Electrode misplacements another pitfall changes that may be interpreted ischemic origin mimic serious arrhythmias. A simplified algorithm (REVERSE is the mnemonic) help clinicians correctly identify both suspected electrode artifacts.
BackgroundEnd colostomy rates following colorectal resection vary across institutions in high-income settings, being influenced by patient, disease, surgeon and system factors. This study aimed to assess global variation end after left-sided resection.
Introduction Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). However, there a lack data available about SSI in children worldwide, especially from low-income and middle-income countries. This study aimed to estimate incidence associations between morbidity across human development settings. Methods A multicentre, international, prospective, validated cohort aged under 16 years undergoing clean-contaminated, contaminated or dirty...
Discharge against medical advice (DAMA), also referred to as self-discharge, occurs when an in-patient leaves a hospital or healthcare setting before discharge is advised by the treating provider. DAMA causes interruption of treatment therapies and strongly associated with post-operative complications, increased morbidity mortality, readmission, expenditure. It widely known that Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples suffer from rates chronic disease have poorer health outcomes than...
This introduces the following dossier which, inspired by roundtable panel ‘Streaming past: Contemporary television, genre and nostalgia’ from University of Hertfordshire’s 2021 genre/nostalgia conference, explores contemporary television’s relationship to nostalgia amid multi-platform shifts COVID-19 pandemic. While non-linear television has in some ways disrupted linear ties nostalgia, it also seen a rise aesthetically nostalgic programming. The introduction considers how this connects...
Babylon Berlin (ARD/Sky, 2017–) depicts Germany’s Weimar Republic by way of complex genericity, drawing especially on the era’s internationally recognizable associations with film noir and musical. While this reflects its position in a transnational “quality” television landscape, generic frameworks also draw out ambiguous historical tensions difficult to capture realist mode highlight unpredictable ambivalence across Weimar’s institutions culture. This complicates myths that polarize...
Abstract Introduction Surgical site infections (SSI) complicate 2%–10% of general surgery cases, and represent a significant burden on acute healthcare services. We aim to investigate if smartphone-delivered wound assessment tool results in earlier treatment. Method This parallel, single-blinded randomised control trial enrolled adult emergency abdominal patients two tertiary hospitals (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02704897). Patients were (1:1 ratio) between standard postoperative care...
This article examines three recent biopics depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: the single dramas The Long Walk to Finchley (BBC4, 2008) and (BBC2, 2009), UK/France co-production Iron Lady (2011). Recognising their differences as indicative of divergent contexts production, considers how each film similarly responds industrial social demands for 1980s-related content but is forced contend with multitudinous incompatible readings inspired by Thatcher's heavily mediated...
Abstract At Home with Horror? Terror on the Small Screen, University of Kent, 27–29 October 2017
Currently, there are no set physiological classifications of patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM). Physiological groups T1DM developed using cluster analysis can inform management technologies and training methods. Using the FDA-approved simulator, we performed simulation runs on in silico adults (n=100) clustered results based sensitivity level to meal carbohydrate misestimation, basal insulin resistance, glucose measurement sensor error. The clustering revealed underlying T1DM. Based...
Federal, state and local government budgets are being strained during recovery from the deep recession of 20089. Revenues to governments fell dramatically as a result employment losses collapse real estate market. Concurrently, automatic stabilizers combined with expansionary federal fiscal policy increased outlays con tributed deepening budget deficit. State generally must balance their budgets, but many benefited American Recovery Re investment Act 2009 its now-disappeared stimulus...
In the UK, majority of non-therapeutic infant male circumcisions for religious or cultural reasons are performed by private providers in community settings. There have been reports unsafe practices some unregulated providers. The implementation a voluntary quality assurance process one region northwest England has associated with decrease paediatric surgical admissions boys admitted following complications circumcision community. Voluntary is feasible option to implement improvement services...