What cognitive capabilities allow Homo sapiens to successfully bet on the stock market, to catch balls in baseball games, to accurately predict the outcomes of political elections, or to correctly decide whether a patient needs to be allocated to the coronary care unit? It is a widespread belief in psychology and beyond that complex judgment tasks require complex solutions. Countering this comm...

OBJECTIVE To determine and to analyze the theoretical and practical knowledge of Nursing professionals on indirect blood pressure measurement. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 31 professionals of a coronary care unit (86% of the Nursing staff in the unit). Of these, 38.7% of professionals were nurses and 61.3% nurse technicians. A validated questionnaire was used to theoretical eva...

BACKGROUND Postictal delirium is a common adverse effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and can be dangerous to both patient and staff caring for them in the postanesthesia care unit. However, little is known about predictors of postictal delirium. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify predictors of postictal delirium. We hypothesized that both patient and ECT treatment variabl...

Thirty-five consecutive patients with acute subendocardial infarction admitted to the coronary care unit during a 15-month period were identified and analyzed for location of infarction, and for the in-hospital course in terms of recurrent chest pain, the occurrence of a second infarction, and the clinical status at the end of hospitalization. Thirteen patients developed a transmural infarction...

BACKGROUND Current guidelines recommend that patients with acute myocardial infarction should receive thrombolysis within 60 min of seeking professional help. AIM To compare current rates of pre-hospital thrombolysis in Grampian with historical data, and assess the effect of pre-hospital thrombolysis on the proportion of patients achieving 'call-to-needle' times within national guidelines. ...

Calculation of osmolal gap in plasma and urine samples from patients after acute myocardial infarction was carried out to see whether changes in these variables support the concept of a "sick-cell" mechanism being responsible for the hyponatremia associated with acute myocardial infarction. Some supportive evidence was found on the first day after admission but, overall, the evidence was not co...

The majority of deaths from myocardial infarction occur soon after the onset of symptoms. The mobile scheme described allows intensive care to commence in the patient's own home or at the site of infarction and thus reduces the interval between the onset of symptoms and the initiation of intensive care. Monitoring is continued during transport and following admission to the hospital coronary ca...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing the patien...

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