
Said Said ElshamaSuez University · Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology
Said Said Elshama
MD Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology - Health Profession Education Diploma "DHPE" - Pediatric and Neonatology - ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-2485
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Introduction
Dr/ Said Said Elshama, MD, PhD, DHPE.
Professor of Forensic Medicine &ClinicalToxicology.
College of Medicine -Taif & Suez Canal University.
Pediatric and Neonatology Specialist .
Medical Education (HPE) Specialist.
Researcher ID: S-6338-2017.
Scopus ID: 55933861300.
Live DNA: 20.17331.
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-2485.
LinkedInID:www.linkedin.com/in/said-said elshama-33401494.
http://saidsaidelshama.yolasite.com .
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October 2008 - present
January 1996 - October 2015
January 1996 - present
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The promotion of student engagement in simulation-based learning depends on authenticity, fidelity, and realism. Moulage is a simulation of illnesses or physical signs onto standardized patient or manikin via using makeup techniques or other elements acting as visual and tactile cues to promote learner engagement through more real-world experience....
Background:
Mood-stabilizer drugs are associated with a considerable incidence of morbidity and mortality.
Aim:
This study aimed to assess the pattern, severity, and outcomes of poisoning with acute mood stabilizer drugs among admitted patients to Tanta University Poison Control Center, Egypt between January 2021 and September 2023.
Patients an...
In recent years, cosmetic interventions have been growing rapidly in the world for beauty and luxury. Cosmetic interventions are classified into two types. The first type is surgical or invasive cosmetic intervention type which has a high risk such as liposuction and rhinoplasty while the second type is non-surgical, reversible, minimally invasive...
Drug-induced fatal anaphylaxis is a common challenge in the last period because of the claim of medical malpractice in these cases. Medical malpractice emerges usually during drug administration by the healthcare provider because of the failure to recognize the allergic condition or failure to apply precautions regarding preventive measures or fail...
A virtual autopsy is an internal visual examination of the body using advanced technology such as magnetic resonance imaging, multi-sliced computed tomography, postmortem angiography, and surface scanning techniques. It may be used as a complementary technique to perform correct diagnosis wherein it can detect the findings that are not possible to...
Aluminum phosphide is one of the significant causes of poisoning in Egypt be�cause of its free availability in the market and its low price. It causes multiple organ
failure, especially in the cardiovascular system causing high morbidity and mortality.
Diagnosis of aluminum phosphide poisoning cases depends on the positive history
of exposure an...
Quality management in medical education is not restricted to teaching and learning but also includes providing services to students. Many international, regional, and national organizations adopt global standards for quality improvement in medical schools. So, accreditation is considered an instrument to reach these global standards for continuous...
The use of bioactive compounds as alternative medicine in the treatment of some intoxication cases is growing in the last years. Flavonoids are one of these bioactive compounds that are plant-based dietary nutrients. Naringenin is the most influential flavonoid wherein it is found in citrus fruits such as orange, grapefruit, and mandarin. A lot of...
Team-Based Learning (TBL) is one of the new instructional strategies that encourage a higher level of learning and cognitive skills; it is a type of evidence-based collaborative active learning. Team-Based Learning is a form of small-group learning that enables one instructor to manage a number of small groups in a large class at the same time. So,...
the extremities were in greater evidence. These injuries are characterized by high-energy and comminuted fractures, vascular damage and important soft tissue loss. More recently, in the Global War Against Terrorism, reports from the United States Navy Medical Corps revealed an incidence of 58 to 88% of firearm injuries, with 23 to 39% of fractures...
Change is a learning process modeling the attitudes and values of the involved staff to adapt and show the change in daily work life. Leading the change in medical schools or in the health care system is considered one of the assignments of successful leadership that can achieve an effective organizational change under complex conditions. This revi...
Change is a learning process modeling the attitudes and values of the involved staff to adapt and show the change in daily work life. Leading the change in medical schools or in the health care system is considered one of the assignments of successful leadership that can achieve an effective organizational change under complex conditions. This revi...
Pathological features of COVID-19 infection emerge usually from an imbalance between the reactive oxygen species and antioxidant system leading to toxic oxidative stress. Moreover, the oxidative stress index identifies the association between the severity of COVID-19 disease and oxidative stress level predicting the risk factors that determine the...
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is considered a gold standard summative and formative assessment method wherein it is a comprehensive and standardized tool assessing the clinical competencies including psychomotor domain, attitudes, and behaviors that will be manifested in the real work of the medical graduates. Therefore, the...
The increasing spread of COVID-19 infection in the world led to emerging controversial medico-legal issues. These issues are varied wherein some of them are related to medical ethics and the relationship between physician and patient while others are related to medical responsibility and malpractice. In addition, there are medico-legal issues emerg...
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is considered a gold standard summative and formative assessment method wherein it is a comprehensive and standardized tool assessing the clinical competencies including psychomotor domain, attitudes, and behaviors that will be manifested in the real work of the medical graduates. Therefore, the...
Assessment in medical education usually gives the evidence that learning was carried out and the learning objectives were achieved. The assessment program is a measurement tool to evaluate the progress in knowledge, skills, behaviors, and the attitude of students. So, the planning for an effective assessment program should be based on instructional...
Food additives may be natural or synthetic substances; it is added intentionally to food during its processing and packaging for multipurpose targets such as preservation, adding flavor or sweetening. Nowadays, the safety of food additives is considered a major challenge because of the numerous number of food additives in the worldwide market; it i...
Assessment in medical education usually gives the evidence that learning was carried out and the learning objectives were achieved. The assessment program is a measurement tool to evaluate the progress in knowledge, skills, behaviors, and the attitude of students. So, the planning for an effective assessment program should be based on instructional...
The promotion of student engagement in simulation-based learning depends on authenticity, fidelity, and realism. Moulage is a simulation of illnesses or physical signs onto standardized patient or manikin via using makeup techniques or other elements acting as visual and tactile cues to promote learner engagement through more real-world experience....
Simulation-Based Learning is considered the best alternative teaching and assessment tool that able to make the change in education, training, improving the quality and assessing the performance of the medical students. It helps students for acquiring many skills such as professionalism, communication, self-evaluation, time management, and teamwork...
Simulation-Based Learning is considered the best alternative teaching and assessment tool that able to make the change in education, training, improving the quality and assessing the performance of the medical students. It helps students for acquiring many skills such as professionalism, communication, self-evaluation, time management, and teamwork...
Curcumin is considered one of the natural promising complementary or alternative medications. Curcumin has been approved as a safe herbal spice and coloring food additive wherein it is an active ingredient of turmeric. It has a wide spectrum of therapeutic influences besides its chemoprotection and cytoprotection effects because of its potency to s...
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a cornerstone of modern medical education. Principles of PBL are the construction of knowledge, prior knowledge activation, organization of knowledge, elaboration of knowledge, stepwise transfer across contexts and cooperation with other learners. It provides the ability to identify the knowledge, generate and analyz...
Propolis (bee glue) is a collected natural mixture from the flowers and leaf buds of the plant via the
honeybees. The flavonoid content of propolis can exert an antioxidant effect through scavenging the free
radicals protecting the body against the lipid peroxidation along with the activation of antioxidant enzymes.
A number of researches have stud...
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a cornerstone of modern medical education. Principles of PBL are the construction of knowledge, prior knowledge activation, organization of knowledge, elaboration of knowledge, stepwise transfer across contexts and cooperation with other learners. It provides the ability to identify the knowledge, generate and analyz...
The treatment of some intoxication cases represents a challenge for the physicians, especially which are caused by some toxic agents
that have not antidotes. Recently, major efforts are being done via using specific characteristic effects of some plants to treat these cases
as a safe and effective alternative or adjuvant therapy. Physalis peruviana...
This book explores the role of alternative and complementary medicine in the treatment of the toxic manifestations of different drugs and chemicals. It presents an overall review showing the role of natural products and its efficacy as preventive and therapeutic agents. This book is a trial to discover an innovative therapeutic strategy in the deto...
Blood grouping of the bloodstains at the scene of the crime may help to connect the criminal with the crime. An assailant attempts to remove the bloodstains from clothing by various procedures such as the use of water or detergents. This study aimed to assess the effect of some commonly used detergents (Ariel automatic, Persil and Soap) on the iden...
Arabic Gum has a wide spectrum of health benefits because of its antioxidant, antidiarrheal, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial effects. It was approved as a food additive by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee due to its stabilizing, emulsifying and thickening properties that induce the attractive flavors. Many research demonstrated the Arabic gu...
Nigella sativa was used in folk medicine as a promising medicinal plant from many years ago. Therapeutic efficacy of Nigella sativa is attributed to thymoquinone that has cytoprotective action .Thymoquinone is a potent antioxidant effect via the oxidizing agents reduction and antioxidant molecules induction. A lot of studies proved that Nigella sat...
It is known that vitamins play a key role in many physiological processes in the human body such as metabolism and immunity. Several of the recent studies revealed that a number of vitamins may use as an alternative or adjuvant therapy or preventive agent in the numerous cases of drugs and chemicals intoxication. Vitamins C, E, and A were known to...
Oxidative stress is the generation of reactive oxygen
species that lead to a depletion in the antioxidant defense
mechanism of the body inducing a lipid peroxidation
along with a cell membrane disruption and nucleic acids
oxidation and then cell damage. Many studies proved that
the mechanism of the toxicity of drugs as well as some
other chemicals...
Despite the widespread application of zinc oxide nanoparticles in biomedicine, their use is still a controversial issue. Zinc
oxide nanoparticles were reported to have therapeutic benefits. However, they were reported to have toxicological hazards as well.
Several studies reported the antibacterial, anticancer, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory eff...
Anaphylactic shock is a sudden and serious life-threatening systemic hypersensitivity leading to a rapid, irreversible fatal circulatory collapse. Postmortem diagnosis of fatal anaphylaxis is a very sophisticated task in forensic medicine; it is usually excluded as the cause of death due to lack of autopsy findings. This study aims to find more spe...
Zinc oxide nanoparticles have widespread applications in medicine and in several industries because of its specific physical and chemical properties. Nanoparticles have a greater toxicity in comparison to the large-sized materials because they are highly reactive causing oxidative stress in humans. The current study aims to evaluate the toxic effec...
Identification of semen residues has relevant consequences, especially for what concerns the ascertainment of possible sexual assault. Forensic scientists usually focus on the vaginal swab for semen detection despite the importance of semen deposition on the skin. Postmortem identification of spermatozoa on putrefied human skin is still under inves...
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