Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510025

Improvement in Pensioners Quality of Life after Treatment with Mineral-Rich Medicinal Waters

Ma Teresa Ortega Majan, Diego Judez Legaristi and Antonio Hernandez Torres

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 21, 2017

Because there are mineral-rich medicinal waters in natural thermal spas. Their mechanical, thermal and psychotropic properties should be harnessed and the transmineralisation resulting from absorption through the skin of the ions they contain is fundamental. The main objective of this study was to determine whether the possible improvement in quality of life following balneotherapy can be maintained for at least two months after undergoing various thermal treatments....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510027

Environmental Factors Urging the Development of Atopic Diseases in 75 Children

Arnaldo Cantani

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: May 17, 2017

Allergic asthma and rhinitis, Atopic Dermatitis (AD), urticaria and gastrointestinal allergy, are common diseases of infants and children. It was recently estimated that 14% of children suffer from AD, 8% from food allergy, and 12% from asthma. The cumulated incidence of these diseases in adolescents has been estimated between 25-35%, while the prevalence is about 20%....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510026

Targeted Temperature Management Following Cardiac Arrest: In-Hospital Trends in Utilization

Saiprasad Narsingam, Benjamin S Abella, Anne V Grossestreuer and Paul S Chan

Article Type: Original Research | First Published: May 15, 2017

Targeted temperature management (TTM) improves outcomes in patients with Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) due to Shockable rhythms. The frequency with which TTM is used for Non-Shockable cardiac arrest rhythms and for In-Hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is unknown....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510025

A Rare Case of Boerhaave Syndrome Presenting with Right Tension Pneumothorax and Review of the Literature

Jennifer Li, Simon Turner, Gordon Finlayson, Basil Nasir, John Yee and Anna McGuire

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: May 12, 2017

Although rare, spontaneous esophageal perforation or "Boerhaave syndrome", carries a high case fatality rate. The 'classic' presentation of chest pain, vomiting and subcutaneous emphysema is actually uncommon clinically, with the literature reporting variable initial presentations....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3674/1510024

Mid-Regional Proadrenomedullin as a Prognosis Biomarker of Mortality in Patients Treated with Non-Invasive Ventilation in the Emergency Room

Manuel Pinero Zapata, Miriam Martinez Villanueva, Francisco V Aviles Plaza, Cesar Cinesi Gomez, Aurelio Luna Maldonado and Maria E Legaz Moreno

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 11, 2017

The mid-regional fragment of the peptide complex Pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proADM) is a ubiquitous biomarker tissue distribution in the human body with increased levels in the course of certain diseases of great importance for vital engagement and whose clinical course is often associated with dyspnoea....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510069

Self-Perceived Performance-Based Training Needs of Senior Nurse Managers Working in United Christian Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Study

Lap Fung Tsang, So Yuen Alice Sham, Sheung Lan Winnie Law, Ching Yi Sze, Siu Keung Tang, Ching Yan Kong, Suk Ying Peggy Wong and A Marie Tarrant

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: May 10, 2017

An increasing demand for quality of clinical service and safety of clinical procedures in hospitals has become a burden to healthcare staff. Training resources is sometimes wrongly allocated and are inadequate to meet the nurses' actual needs. No study was conducted to explore self-perceived training needs from senior level managers towards three domains: personal growth, professional development and services development....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5807/1510053

Cystic Lymphangioma: an Uncommon Cause of Pediatric Abdominal Pain

Ivan Fernandez-Vega

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: May 12, 2017

Lymphangiomas are benign congenital malformations characterized by an abnormal dilatation and proliferation of lymphatic spaces, which are found predominantly in children. Symptomatic mesenteric cyst accounts for only 1 in 20,000 in acute pediatric admission. We describe hereby a case of a previously healthy 6-year-old girl who presented acute three-day pain localized over the right upper abdominal quadrant due to intestinal obstruction....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410070

Could We Really Use Aloe Vera Food Supplements to Treat Diabetes?

Solomon Habtemariam

Article Type: Letter to Editor | First Published: May 20, 2017

For thousands of years, mankind has used plants as a source of medicine either in their crude mixture forms or purified single chemical entities. While the use of crude plant extracts in prescription drugs today is extremely rare, we still have a significant number of our drug therapies tracing their origin back to natural products. In principle, drug therapeutic approach for complex metabolic disorders like diabetes and associated diseases, where a single key universally accepted biological tar...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410167

Secondary Adrenocortical Insufficiency as a Result of Chronic Fentanyl Treatment: A Case Report

Eduardo Esteban-Zubero, Isabel Torres-Courchoud, Alvaro Flamarique-Pascual, Moises Alejandro Alatorre-Jimenez, Sara Anabel Alonso-Barragan and Fernando Jose Ruiz-Laglesia

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: May 29, 2017

Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) may be disturbed by drugs, including opioids. In fact, opioids are a well-recognized cause of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism due to its effects in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonads axis. Nevertheless, these results are not observed in all the studies and there are numerous contradictions in the literature....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410166

Infectious Diseases Mimicking Ovarian Carcinomatosis

Sara M Drayer and Jessica J Shank

Article Type: Case Series | First Published: April 28, 2017

Two Filopina women presented with abdominal distension and had evaluations suggestive of advanced gynecologic malignancy. The first patient underwent surgery and was found to have peritoneal tuberculosis. Intra-operative pathology from the second case revealed ovarian carcinoma with schistosomal granulomas of the intestines....