Coping with the arthritic patient.

The Relationship Between Patient Care Tolerance and Coping with Stressful Situations Among Nurses

The new arthritic patient and arthroplasty treatment options.

Methods: In a prospective study of 513 consecutive potential knee replacement candidates, 59 patients (12%) underwent medial unicompartmental arthroplasty of the knee. All 59 patients had isolated unicompartmental disease without either clinical symptoms or radiographic evidence of patellofemoral arthritis; intraoperatively no patient had more than Outerbridge class 2 chondromalacia. No patient...

Coping with the violent patient in accident and emergency.

This is another of the papers presented at the conference on 'Violence' organised under the auspices of the London Medical Group. Sylvia Winterbottom, who is based in the Casualty Department of Bolton Royal Infirmary, relates her experiences with various types of violent patients she meets daily in her work. She feels that many factors are to blame for the ever increasing violence but is more i...

Maxillofacial trauma patient: coping with the difficult airway

Establishing a secure airway in a trauma patient is one of the primary essentials of treatment. Any flaw in airway management may lead to grave morbidity and mortality. Maxillofacial trauma presents a complex problem with regard to the patient's airway. By definition, the injury compromises the patient's airway and it is, therefore, must be protected. In most cases, the patient undergoes surger...

Systemic isotretinoin in the treatment of a Behçet's patient with arthritic symptoms and acne lesions.

Sirs, Retinoids have an important and expanding role as therapeutic agents (1). A 21-year-old man suffe ring from Behçet’s disease fo r t h ree ye a rs , i n cluding art h ri t i s , p re s e n t e d with nodulocystic acne on the face, trunk, back and upper extremities (Fig. 1). He had initially presented with panuveitis, arthritis, and recurrent aphthous ulcerations and had been using cyclospo...