JPMC organised Osteoporosis CME

OSTEOPOROSIS CME

The Organising Committee with Guest Speakers

Dr Wang explaining the pathogenesis of Osteoporosis

Dr Hjh Haslinda (Endocrinology Specialist)

Mr Ketan Pande from Orthopaedics sharing his knowledge

The Special Guest Speaker from Singapore

HSBC brings magic to children's Ward

HSBC brings magic to Children's Ward

27th October 2007

HSBC once again brought smile all around the paediatric ward at RIPAS hospital by doing its charity rounds and bringing gifts and prizes to the children's ward. The group led by the Manager of Kiulap Branch Hjh Rohani and her crew from various branches kept the children entertained and even brought in a magician to liven up the day. Thank you HSBC for your continuous charity work, perhaps one day you will visit the Doctors Mess as well :-)

When doctors wed..

Congratulations to Dr Norlenny & Dr Taufique!

21st October 2007

To those who attended the Akad & Nikah Ceremony between Dr Norlenny (Radiology) & Dr Taufique (Intensive Care Unit) it was one to be remembered. Not only because it was the first time I saw Taufique, whom I have known since med school wear a traditional malay costume, which by the way you look good dude... keep it up hehe..!

But also it was the first time we've heard the akad & nikah ceremony done in English! Well done to the brave Khadi who managed to translate the whole khutbah into english and performed the ceremony smoothly indeed for the first time! Well ofcourse the choice of verbs and nouns could have been better (Who am I to comment ofcourse), but I'm sure perhaps words like 'sexual intercourse' could have been avoided in the khutbah... :-D Hmm well I could say there were several smiling faces in the crowd for a moment then.

Well done to Taufique for being able to perform the akad at One Go! I met him a few minutes before the ceremony and he was well nervous (who wouldn't aye) but Taufique was a cool as ever. Of course not stressful and nerve wrecking like saving people's lives everyday in the ICU unit, but someone's got to do it dude ;-).

Lenny was beautiful in her nikah dress as expected.. a few tears was shed, ofcourse from both the parents and bride.. but she manage to whole her make-up very well indeed.

Finally Congratulations to the newly weds, and a big warm welcome to Dr Taufique Ahmed (from UK) whom we will see more of in the near future.

DOCTORS HARI RAYA-ING

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDLFITIRI
to All our Families, Friends & Colleagues

from

BRUNEIAN DOCTORS, RIPAS Hospital

At Azmi's House
L to R: Dr Azmiman, Dr Azmi, Dr Hj Amri (Back)
Dr Wadi, Dr Ariff, Dr Sofi & Hubby (Si) (Front)

Celebrating Raya at RIPAS
(Can't you tell the happy faces!!! erm..)

Dr Herry's crew (2nd from left)

The Eligible Bachelors
(except the one sitting on the far right! Sorry Mrs Ady!)

Ofcourse there are still more pics that should be posted, but I haven't had the time to steal them from their facebook accounts :-) Will post it as it comes ok!

SELAMAT HARI RAYA FROM THE DOCTORS MESS COMMITTEE!!

LIVE 'Keyhole' Spinal Surgery in Brunei

1st International Endoscopic Lumbar Spine Workshop in Brunei

5th October 2007

RIPAS Hospital was once again host to an international meet, when a world renowned Neurosurgeon from France Prof Jean Destandau was invited to Brunei Darussalam to demonstrate 'live' the most recent advancement in treatment of Lumbar Disc Prolapse (Backpain) to 20 surgeons from Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India and the UAE.

Present to watch for the 1st time in Brunei Live Surgery telecasted from the Main Operating Theatre at RIPAS to the Lecture Hall was the Honourable Minister of Health Pehin Orang Kaya Indera Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Hj Suyoi who also earlier officiated the endoscopic workshop.

Prof Jean Destandau explaining his technique

Amongst the guests that attend the Live Surgery Demonstration

The patient being prepared for surgery

Over 2 days Prof Jean Destandau performed live surgery on 4 Bruneian patients who had been troubled with backpain for several years and found to have a Lumbar Disc Problem. The 2 days workshop was held at RIPAS 2nd Floor Lecture Hall and the visual was telecast from the Operating Theatre. Prof Jean Destandau has been using this special technique which he innovated to correct disc herniation since 1993 and since then has operated over 5000 patients worldwide with back problems. The advantage of his technique over the traditional 'open' procedure is reduction in hospital stay to just 2-3 nights, reduction in infection rate and improved visual capability.

It was impressive to watch Prof Destandau in action, live as he smoothly carved his way through the lamina (cartilage at the spine) and release the bulging contents of the Lumbar spinal canal. It was very much a different story when the rest of the participating surgeons was given the oppurtunity to try this technique on dummies the next day... hmmm.. let's just say some will take a lot more practice before they should be doing it on real people... However there were others who were quite keen already to try on this technique on their patients back home.

One of the Bruneian surgeons trying his skills with the dummy... what can i say.. hmm

Well done again Department of Neurosurgery for organising and Thank you to Misti Jaya & STORZ for sponsoring.


Lumbar Discectomy

What is the diagnosis?

This is an 18 year old female who presented with a pelvic fracture after having fallen from the bed. She also has a history of recurrent fractures of her wrists and ankles. Despite her recurrent admissions no body spotted the spot diagnosis of her eyes.

What is the abnormalities on her eyes?

What is the differential diagnosis of this abnormality?

With her clinical presentation, what is her likely diagnosis?

4th Surgical Forum

The 4th Surgical Forum in Conjunction with the
1st Annual Surgical Scientific Conference

The Organising Committee
Front (L to R): Mr V Matthew, Mr Tan, Mr Kok, Dato Yapp, Mr Chua, Mr William, Hjh Rumput
Back (L to R): Dr Nourul, Mr Yusri, Mr Mackie, Dr Ak Azmi, Ms Zue, Mr Tin.

9th September 2007.

For the 4th consecutive year the Department of General Surgery successfully held it's annual surgical forum with this year's theme ‘Management of the Trauma Patient – Working Towards Better Survival’.

In the morning sessions, we had interesting talks about the current trend in trauma and the statistics by Dr Da of Accident & Emergency. Dr Ang presented on Fluid management in the Trauma patient, Mr Paw talked about cardiothoracic injuries and Mr Tan shared his experience in management of abdominal injuries.

We also lucky when we had a guest speaker from Singapore who was also a Specialist Trauma Surgeon who spoke of his experience as a Trauma surgeon in singapore and advised our surgeons on current standard management for trauma patients.

Dr Ang giving his talk

Mr Zul & Dr Vui Heng amongst the guests

For the first time this year, the organising committee also held it's first annual Scientific Conference and invited scientific papers from all the surgeons working in Brunei to present their study, research or interesting cases of which top 10 papers were presented in the afternoon. The Best Scientific Paper was awarded to Mr Yusri Yahya a General Surgeon, who's paper triggered an interesting remark from one of our guests, Dr Hjh Roslina. Mr Yusri's Paper was an interesting case report of a male patient who injected his genitalia with foreign substance to make it ... well 'bigger' however it ended up all wrong (as usual) and the patient had to end up having surgery to make it 'smaller'! And oh yes.. when Dr Hjh Roslina said what is that.... the whole room just burst into laughter... who wouldnt aye.. Anyway due to certain restrictions we are not allowed to show the gruesome pics of the surgery however it's enough for us to deter anyone from having any one of these nasty injections. Well done Mr Yusri!