the present research was done to examine the efficacy of psychosocial skills training on psychological and job stress management of bus drivers. accessible sampling method was utilized and the sample consisted of 157 bus drivers in the city of tehran. the research method is quasi- experimental with pretest-posttest. job stress inventory and stress response inventory were administered before and...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate the effect of the implementation of an information handover form regarding patients receiving palliative care. Outcome was the information available for the out-of-hours GP co-operative. DESIGN We conducted a controlled trial. SETTING All GPs in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. INTERVENTION The experimental group (N = 240) received an information handover form...

PARAMEDICS AND ED PERSONNEL FACE similar risks for blood exposures. They are both confronted by the unpredictability of the patient’s condition, and must perform a daunting variety of tasks under intense pressure. I experienced those risks firsthand as a paramedic in rural West Virginia for four years. My interest in becoming a paramedic started as a concern for my youngest daughter, who seemed...

BACKGROUND Inadequate dermoscopy training represents a major barrier to proper dermoscopy use. OBJECTIVE To better understand the status of dermoscopy training in US residency programs. METHODS A survey was sent to 417 dermatology residents and 118 program directors of dermatology residency programs. RESULTS Comparing different training times for the same training type, residents with 1-1...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Reduction of cerebral blood flow results in several acute metabolic disturbances, including a reduction in Na,K-ATPase activity. The relation between this reduction and the onset of edema is unknown, as is the effect of restoration of blood flow. Therefore, we investigated the role of decreased Na,K-ATPase activity in the pathogenesis and time course of ischemic brain ede...

The anomalies of enzyme action have frequently been accounted for by the assumption of an intermediate compound between the enzyme and the substrate. I t was shown, however, by Nelson and Hitchcock t that in the case of invertase the experiments could not be accurately calculated on this basis. The writer found with trypsin' that although the effect of varying the substrate concentration could ...