Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510136
Nurses' Experiences of Caring for Patients with Tuberculosis - An Interview Study in Indonesia
Linda Byberg, RN, BSc, Karstin Vaster, RN, BSc, Margret Lepp, PhD, RN and Kristina Rosengren, PhD, RN
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 16, 2019
Tuberculosis, TB is an infectious disease affecting millions of people each year and Indonesia have the second highest prevalence in the world. The cure of TB is already existing but hence to factors such as long treatment with severe side-effects results in low compliance. The aim of the study was to describe nurse’s conceptions of caring for patients suffering from tuberculosis in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. To perform nursing, precautions and protection is significant even though medication for ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510135
Drama, Leadership and Conflict Management to Support Nurse's Professional Development - A Qualitative Study in Indonesia
Kristina Rosengren, PhD, RN, Margret Lepp, PhD, RN and Widyawati, PhD, RN
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 07, 2019
A need exists for developing training interventions for nurses regarding conflict management and leadership to facilitate professional development. Therefore, we aimed to explore and describe the use of applied drama to support professional development with focus on nursing leadership and conflict management of nurses (practitioner, lecturer) in Indonesia. A need exists to developing training interventions for students in nursing education as well as for nurses regarding conflict management and ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4008/1710010
Streptococcus Agalactiae: An Unusual Agent of Inguinal Abscess
Abdurrahman Kaya, MD, Mehtap Turfan, MD, Acar Yurtbasi Nuran, Ekrem Sezgin, MD and Sibel Yildiz Kaya
Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: October 17, 2019
Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus; GBS) is gram-positive bacterium frequently colonized in pharynx, gastrointestinal and female genital tract. While the microorganism is also responsible for a wide range of infections which include sepsis and meningitis in newborn and chorioamnionitis and urinary tract infection in pregnant women, the incidence of invasive GBS disease has appeared to increase among non-pregnant adults and those with significant underlying conditions in the recent y...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-3907/1710026
Evolving Role of Liposomal Bupivacaine in Managing Post- Surgical Analgesia in Oral Surgery
Pooja Gangwani
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 05, 2019
According to the report from Department of Health and Human Services, dental caries is the most common chronic condition in childhood. But the prevalence of tooth decay is high in the adult population as well. Ultimately, untreated non-restorable decayed teeth require oral surgery. Additionally, surgical removal of impacted third molars (wisdom teeth) is a routinely performed procedure on a younger patient population. Approximately, 5 million people undergo extraction of third molars annually in...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-3907/1710025
The Use of Cytoplast Titanium Reinforced Membrane for Horizontal Guided Bone Regeneration Case Report
George Master, DMD, Eric Wood, DDS, Travis Scholer, DDS, Doug Beals, DMD, MS, Robert Carpenter, DMD and H Dexter Barber, DDS
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: September 20, 2019
Successful implant osseointegration is dependent primarily upon adequate bone quantity and quality at the desired implant site. But often times the implant candidate, after proper clinical examination and evaluation of the patient’s diagnostic information, lacks adequate bone quantity or volume for implant placement. Often times, the patients has adequate height of bone but lacks bone width. The ability to predictably generate horizontal bone or bone width in preparation for dental implants, o...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510093
Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Formidable Threat or Silence before the Storm?
Helen Kest and Ashlesha Kaushik
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: September 21, 2019
Globally, Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), notably methicillin-resistant S. aureus, is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Vancomycin is considered a drug of last resort for severe MRSA and other resistant Gram-positive infections. Vancomycin enjoyed a high level of success for decades following MRSA outbreaks until recent reports of increasing S. aureus MICs culminating in high-level vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA), first reported in 2002. Since then, there have been selected ca...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3690/1510043
White Coat Hypertension in Children and Adolescents: Innocent or Not?
Evrim Kargin Cakici, Eda Didem Kurt Sukur, Fatma Yazilitaş, Gokce Gur, Tulin Gungor, Evra Celikkaya, Deniz Karakaya and Mehmet Bulbul
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: September 30, 2019
The clinical significance of white coat hypertension is still uncertain. We aimed to evaluate children with white coat hypertension regarding their clinical, laboratory characteristics, evidence of target organ damage and compare them to normotensive and hypertensive children. Fourty patients diagnosed with white coat hypertension, 40 patients with primary hypertension and 40 normotensive children of similar age, gender and body mass index were included in the study. Ambulatory blood pressure mo...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510077
Partial Endoprosthesis Application with Posterior Mini-Incision in Geriatric Hip Fractures: A Retrospective Study
Recep Dincer, Halil Burc, Y Barbaros Baykal, Tolga Atay and Vecihi Kirdemir
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 03, 2019
Recent technological advancements and accumulating surgical experience have led to a higher interest in orthopedic minimally invasive surgery. This study aims to present the feasibility of posterior mini-incision for partial hip prosthesis compared with total hip prosthesis. In all patients, a mini-incision of 8.5-cm mean length was used. The mean surgical duration was 67.4 min, and the mean blood loss was 526 mL. We observed no neurovascular damage in any patient resulting from the limited expo...