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Filter by:This study aimed to evaluate the prehospital assessment unit (PAU) by admission within 48 hours, 7 days, respectively and on survival. The PAU should increase focus on a patient-centered approach with the capability to make advanced assessments of patients to reduce unnecessary transportation. Further, this paramedic assessment program could positively impact the healthcare system by reducing admissions to emergency departments. The PAU is operated by paramedics who have additional education, and they are capable of testing and monitoring certain conditions at the scene - in the home of the patients. The paramedics decide if the patient requires admission to the hospital or if the patient could stay at home. They are consulting physicians on call by phone. This retrospective cohort study included data from patients assessed by the PAU between November 1st 2021, and October 1st 2022. Non-PAU patients were selected from the 1-1-2 calls (the European version of 9-1-1) EMS and were collected based on the same criteria as the patients assessed by the PAU. The control ratio was 1:10 for cases to increase power. The non-PAU patients were matched on sex and age (within 5-year ranges). Matching was performed using incidence density sampling, where controls were selected for each case on the week of 1-1-2 call.
Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) represent a multifactorial pathological group that gives rise to a varied and complex symptomatology that includes decreased jaw movement, muscle and joint pain, joint crepitation and limitation or functional deviation of the jaw opening. All this is sometimes accompanied by headache and other painful symptoms in the neck musculature, incapacitating for many patients and at considerable public health expense. Intramuscular and intra-articular injections of botulinum toxin are a simple treatment that has proven to be effective in the treatment of the painful symptoms of these disorders, being a therapeutic option in situations of failure of conventional treatments, without presenting adverse effects. Our study presents the preliminary results of twenty patients treated with this therapy
Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD) are diseases whose frequency is increasing in elderly subjects. Their evolution is marked by the occurrence, in addition to cognitive disorders, of increasingly disruptive behavioral disorders that interfere with their management, as well as impairment of basic functions, including the occurrence of sphincter disorders responsible for daytime and nighttime urinary and fecal incontinence. These disorders are present in more than 80% of LAM patients and are of multifactorial origin. It is difficult to get patients to accept wearing the necessary protection. They tend to remove or tear them off. This can frequently lead to stressful situations of agitation and inappropriate behavior for patients and uncomfortable continence management for caregivers. In order not to be forced to use heavy physical restraints or therapeutics that promote drowsiness so that the patient cannot remove his or her protections, the only effective response today is to wear a garment. Unfortunately, the ones that exist today are strictly functional and are worn at night. The use of such garments, during the day, in this indication, is therefore a common and usual practice today. This results in an ethical problem for the caregivers. Indeed, worn during the day, rompers give the impression to the latter that they show a devaluing, infantilizing or even degrading image of the elderly person. This practice, although common and accepted because it is the only recourse to physical and chemical restraints to preserve the cleanliness and presentation of elderly patients, could lead to an impaired dignity which could be badly experienced by their close circle of friends and family as well as by the carers and could also have an impact on the overall effectiveness of the care . This is the first time that a multi-professional team integrating doctors, caregivers, occupational therapists and engineers have reflected on the design of a garment that meets the expectations of caregivers, patients and their families. The romper thus designed must be able to retain the aesthetic characteristics of a garment that meets the tastes of the elderly while respecting their dignity.
Lower back pain has been one of the most frequently occurring musculoskeletal disorder among the females. This act as a global burden and is highly prevalent in our society. This pain can result in life long disability, loss of function and mobility among individuals. The female of the society suffers from lower back pain the most because of the under lying causes, prolong standing and stooping as well as because of hormonal changes in their bodies
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention delivered on a smartphone. This study examines whether this intervention might improve treatment outcomes for people with substance use disorders. The intervention, called Laddr®, is a smartphone application ("app") that provides information and skills that can help people stop using substances. The social version of Laddr® being tested in this study has new features that allow people in treatment for substance use disorders to include a support person in their treatment journey, including a friend, family member, or other acquaintance. This research study will compare the effectiveness of Laddr® in combination with standard outpatient substance use treatment to standard treatment only for substance use disorders.
Title: "Feasibility and acceptability study of "Mamá, te entiendo": an app-based intervention for reducing depressive symptoms in postpartum women" Funding: This work was funded by the Chilean National Agency of Research and Development (ANID Doctorado Nacional 2019 - 21190745). General objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a guided 8-week cognitive-behavioral app-based intervention for Chilean postpartum women with depressive symptoms. Design: A small-scale parallel 2-arms trial will be conducted. Postpartum women with minor or major depression will be randomized to the app-based intervention or waitlist. The primary outcomes are feasibility and acceptability variables, mainly; recruitment and eligibility rates, intervention and study adherence, and participants' intervention satisfaction, use, and engagement. Semi-structured interviews with a sub-sample will provide more information about the participants' experience with the intervention. Women's depression diagnostic status will be assessed at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and 1-month follow-up. Other secondary outcomes will include participants' perceived social support, mother-infant bonding, and maternal satisfaction and self-efficacy.
Acute leukemia is generally understood to be a neoplastic process that exerts a maturational block at a hematopoietic precursor cell level, accompanied by a proliferative drive of varying degree. The resulting accumulation of cells, most frequently in the marrow, causes the typical clinical picture, which includes marrow failure, tissue infiltration, organomegaly and on occasion, tumor masses. AL is broadly classified as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) (1). Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is frequently diagnosed in children and young adults, with incidence peaks between 2 and 5 years of age (2), whereas AML is the most common acute type in adults (3). In addition to leukemia cells themselves, cells of the immune system are a fundamental component of the tumor microenvironment (TME), which often modify the TME to be more favorable to tumor development and progression through producing cytokines and mediators (4,5) . Interleukins / interleukin receptors interaction plays important roles in the antitumor immune response through mediating cell-cell communication in TME and is reported to be relevant to patient prognosis (6,7). As a member of the Interleukin family, Interleukin 7 (IL7) play vital roles in hematopoiesis and the development of T lymphocytes, as well as the inflammation, autoimmune diseases and hematological cancers. Its function is mediated by the IL7 R, which is a membrane receptor consisted of the specific IL7Ra chain (CD127) and IL-7Rγ chain (common gamma chain shared by the receptors for IL-2,-4,-9,-15, and-21) (8). It is thus not surprising that activation of IL-7 signalling is seen in the majority of T-ALLs and in some of the B cell precursor ALL (9,10). Consistent with the absolute requirement of IL-7 to human T cell development, most T-ALLs have been shown to respond to IL-7. Thus targeting IL-7 signaling might be a reasonable general approach for treatment of T-ALL, regardless the presence of activating mutations. (10)
An acute deterioration of a patients' general condition is often preceded by changes in individual vital parameters. An early warning system (EWS) shall be developed with a reduced number of physiological and individual parameters, compared to conventional early warning systems; and an algorithm will be generated that is able to predict clinical deterioration. Its predictive power and accuracy shall be investigated. In a second exploratory phase, different model variants will be analyzed and the applicability of the model variants in the context of continuous EWS on wearables will be examined.
The main purpose of this study is to gather data and assess changes in patient-reported outcomes with the stellate ganglion blocks as treatment for their sympathetically-mediated long COVID symptoms.
The study intends to establish a closed-loop management from prenatal to postnatal through prospective cohort, and comprehensively utilize ultrasound and MRI technology to establish a prenatal diagnosis and evaluation system for congenital talipes equinovarus. On the basis of existing genetic testing, further use of whole-exome sequencing and other genomic methods to explore possible pathogenic genes and loci, and clarify the pathogenic mechanism of congenital talipes equinovarus. Therefore, congenital talipes equinovarus can improve its diagnosis and treatment capacity, reduce the disability rate related to congenital talipes equinovarus, and prevent it well.