Biomedical subjects

R Ferrara-Love

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PubMed1999

So, you are buying your first computer.

Buying your first computer need not be that complicated. The first thing that is needed is an understanding of what you want and need the computer for. By making a list of the various essentials, you will be on your way to purchasing that computer. Once that is completed, you will need an understanding of what each of the components of the computer is, how it works, and what options you have. This way, you will be better able to discuss your needs with the salesperson. The focus of this article is limited to personal computers or PCs (i.e., IBMs [Armonk, NY], IBM clones, Compaq [Houston, TX], Gateway [North Sioux City, SD], and so on). I am not including Macintosh or Apple [Cupertino, CA] in this discussion; most software is often made exclusively for personal computers or at least on the market for personal computers before becoming available in Macintosh version.

Computer Systems↗

PubMed1998

Layoff survivor sickness: how to cope when you do not lose your job.

Health care systems have been among the last secure job market. With the 1990s, that ended and now health care reflects what has been happening in business for years. Health care reform triggered many changes in hospitals. Tremendous pressure was brought on health care organizations for reform and cost-cutting. These cost-cutting initiatives were often directed at nurses because they occupied the largest portion of the organization's budget. Various terms--downsizing, redesigning, re-engineering, and restructuring--were used to describe the displacement of registered nurses. Assisting those nurses who remain on the job is becoming increasingly important in preventing and treating layoff survivor sickness. The stress and coping mechanisms displayed by those who have not been downsized and are grieving and feeling guilty about keeping their jobs is only now being studied.

Absenteeism↗

PubMed1998

Thermo-STAT

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PubMed1998

Are you being sabotaged by your coworkers?

Men and women are both guilty of sabotaging coworkers, but men and women do it differently and for different reasons. Men tend to do it more overtly and for more work-related reasons. However, women are more covert; their reasons are motivated more by jealousy of another's success or their own insecurity. Once women are betrayed by another, they take it more personally than their male counterparts. Men confront the betrayer and move on; that is business. Women do not confront the betrayer and see betrayal in the workplace as being let down by their friends. Women need to treat business relationships and situations as business, not as friendships.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1997

Changing organizational culture to implement organizational change.

With the advent of managed care and the restructuring of hospitals, health care is in a state of transition. In the past, healthcare executives seemed to believe that they were isolated from the changes that were occurring in corporate America. However, the need for change in both organizational culture and performance is here. To successfully navigate the "permanent white water" of health care change, examples from business are needed. These examples include work redesign, restructuring, and behavior modification to promote the changes needed for health care to move forward.

Commerce↗

PubMed1997

Ambulatory surgery. Laparoscopic surgery.

Laparoscopic surgery procedures have increased over the past decade and newer uses are being investigated. The major reasons for increased use of laparoscopic procedures include decreased pain, smaller incisions, and decreased length of hospital stay. Although the cost of hospital stay is decreased, there are increased costs associated with longer surgery time, increased anesthesia time, and additional equipment. Other drawbacks to the procedure are miniaturized instruments, decreased field of vision, inability to palpate tissue and organs directly, and necessary hand-eye coordination.

Ambulatory Surgical Procedures↗

PubMed1996

Nonpharmacologic treatment of postoperative nausea.

UNLABELLED: Nausea is the most common postoperative complication of anesthesia. Appropriately applied acupressure offers a safe and cost-effective nursing approach to the prevention of this problem. This study tested the effect of acupressure on the incidence of postoperative nausea in same-day surgery patients. METHODS: Ninety outpatient surgery patients were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The treatment group (n = 30) received bilateral elastic bands designed to exert pressure on the appropriate location on the distal aspect of the wrist during the perioperative period. The placebo group (n = 30) had elastic bands incapable of acupressure placed on their wrists. The control group (n = 30) received routine nursing and medical interventions for nausea and vomiting. Antiemetics were prescribed by the anesthesiologist and administered to patients in all three groups if nausea persisted and/or emesis occurred. The incidences of nausea or vomiting were tabulated separately for operating room, PACU phase I, and PACU phase II, and compared using Fisher's Exact Test. RESULTS: The incidence of nausea and vomiting did not differ overall in the OR or PACU phase I. However, in PACU phase II the incidence was 10% in the treatment group, 20% in the placebo group, and 50% in the control group (overall, P = .0001). Treatment wrist bands reduced the incidence of nausea and vomiting as compared with the control group (P = .0001), as did the placebo wrist bands (P = .0033). The numerical trend suggests that the incidence is reduced by half. The incidence of nausea can be significantly reduced by the use of placebo and suggests that further reduction can be obtained by using acupressure.

Acupressure↗

PubMed1991

A comparison of tympanic and pulmonary artery measures of core temperatures.

The most accurate method of obtaining body temperature is the core temperature. Traditionally, esophageal measurements have been used in anesthetic settings. A method to assure similar accuracy for conscious patients was needed. A group of 20 postoperative patients ranging in age from 60 to 95 years was studied. All had pulmonary artery catheters for perioperative and postoperative monitoring. For all 20 patients, temperatures measured through the pulmonary artery catheter were compared with temperatures measured with a tympanic thermometer. It was hypothesized that there was no significant difference between the two temperature measurements. Mean temperature measured was 37.2 degrees C in the control group (pulmonary artery temperatures) and 37.3 degrees C in the experimental group (tympanic membrane temperatures). Using the descriptive statistic and analysis of variance, the F statistic indicated that there was no significant difference between the two groups. The null hypothesis that there is no significant difference between temperatures measured with a tympanic membrane thermometer and pulmonary artery catheter was accepted.

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