BACKGROUND Patients with brief, complex partial seizures frequently suffer from tiredness and decreased productivity that continue well beyond the postictal period. A possible explanation is that seizures, even when occurring during the day, disrupt sleep the following night. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of temporal lobe complex partial seizures on sleep structure and daytime drowsiness....

Twenty smokers and twenty non-smokers completed a brief Mood State Questionnaire every 2 hours, over one day shift and one night shift. The subjects comprised male police ocers and factory workers, aged 23±57 years. Cigarette smokers reported signi®cantly higher stress levels than non-smokers on both day and night shifts …p < 0:05†. This con®rms previous ®ndings that smokers are often more str...

This study investigated the relationship between changes in upon-waking body mass (BM) and changes in urine specific gravity (U(sg)) and urine color (U(col)) from 1 day to the next. Throughout the 5-day investigation, healthy adolescent Singaporean athletes (n = 66) had their upon-waking, bladder-voided BM measured. A small aliquot of the first bladder void each day was collected and analyzed f...

PURPOSE The study was done to compare effects of two endotracheal tube (ET tube) fixation methods (rotated fixation versus conventional) on unplanned extubation and skin integrity for orally intubated patients in intensive care units. METHODS The research design was a non-equivalent control group with repeated measures design. Participants were 80 patients; 40 participants assigned to each gr...

OBJECTIVE Remarkably high rates of abstinence occur among alcohol-dependent persons after a liver transplant. This was thought to be solely due to selection or other nonbiological factors. Observing sustained abstinence for many months to years after a liver transplant, however, we asked whether immunosuppressants might exert a biological effect that supported abstinence from ethanol. METHOD ...

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality in women, with elevated incidence in developing countries. This retrospective study included all 122 patients diagnosed with breast cancer from January 2003 to December 2008 in the Sultanate of Oman. Age at presentation was 47.41 years (SD±12.88), with one-third of patients younger than 40 years. The majority of patients presente...

BACKGROUND C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase protein synthesized by the liver primarily in response to interleukin-6. Initial studies have suggested that inflammatory markers may have a role in predicting severity. We investigated whether admission and day 4 CRP could predict severity in community-acquired pneumonia. METHODS A prospective study was carried out over a 2-year period in...

Block, Natalia and Adams, Kathleen M. (eds.) (2023)Intersections of Tourism, Migration, ExileOxon New York: RoutledgeISBN 978-1-003-18268-9

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential effect of 5 existing psychiatric comorbidities on postsurgical mortality. DESIGN Retrospective cohort. SETTING Intensive care units of all Veterans Health Administration hospitals designated as providing acute care. PATIENTS We studied 35 539 surgical patients admitted to intensive care units from October 1, 2003, through September 30, 2006. MAIN OUTCO...