Day to day care of patients throughout the continuum life puts nurses at risk for burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS). This mixed-methods study explores Medical-Surgical (MS) nursing burnout, STS, support from professional organization leadership membership perspectives. Seventy-two were recruited a website surveyed provide demographic Professional Quality Life Scale Version 5 (ProQOLv...

INTRODUCTION State of severe oxidative stress is encountered in sepsis. Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) protects against oxidative stress but also undergoes inactivation upon that condition. We investigated PON1 activity in surgical patients with sepsis in relation to oxidative stress status, inflammation, disease severity, and survival. METHODS Prospective observational study. Sixty-nine surgical patie...

Surgical ventricular restoration (SVR) is a procedure designed to treat heart failure by surgically excluding infarcted tissues from the dilated failing left ventricle. To elucidate and predict the effects of geometrical changes from SVR on cardiac function, we created patient-specific mathematical (finite-element) left ventricular models before and after surgery using untagged magnetic resonan...

Background Data: Spondylolysis is a stress fracture of the pars interarticularis that occurs in 2–5% population. Surgical techniques spondylolysis repair have been challenging last decades.

PURPOSE We updated the 1997 American Urological Association guideline on female stress incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS MEDLINE searches of English language publications from 1994 and new searches of the literature published between December 2002 and June 2005 were performed using identified MeSH terms. Articles were selected for the index patient defined as the otherwise healthy woman who...