How should Alcohol Dependence be Treated? The Public View

How should alcohol dependence be treated? The public view.

AIMS The aim of this study was to assess public preferences on sources of help and treatment, and perception of prognosis for alcohol dependence. METHOD A household survey was administered in 2002 to a probabilistic sample of 500 individuals, all residents of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, with ages ranging from 18 to 65. A vignette in colloquial language describing an individual with alcohol...

How ARDS should be treated.

The Berlin definition criteria applied at positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) 5 cm H2O reasonably predict lung edema and recruitabilty. To maintain viable gas exchange, the mechanical ventilation becomes progressively more risky going from mild to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Tidal volume, driving pressure, flow, and respiratory rate have been identified as causes of v...

Femoral pseudoaneurysm: How should it be treated?

We read with interest the article by Duszańska et al. [1] entitled ‘Predictors of successful iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm compression dressing repair’ recently published in the journal. The authors suggested that compression dressing repair (CPR) might serve as an alternative method of femoral pseudoaneurysm (FPA) management in patients with low forward and reverse velocities of the flow in pseudo...

Atrial fibrillation: how should it be treated?

istorical Aspect In 1827 Robert Adams was probably the first person to recognize Atrial Fibrillation (AF) clinically as a sign of mitral stenosis. Hope in 1839 identified irregular pulse in association with mitral stenosis. Etienne Marcy in 1863 published a tracing of atrial fibrillation from a patient with mitral stenosis. Arthur Cushney described it in 1899. Initially AF was termed as Deleriu...

Blunt renal artery trauma: how should it be treated, or rather, should it be treated?