Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510057
Acute Care Nursing Considerations in the Era of Direct-Acting Hepatitis C Antivirals
Jennifer L Cole and Jennifer E Stark
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: September 30, 2016
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a major impact on healthcare globally. Comorbidities are common in HCV-infected patients and as this population ages, acute care admissions are on the rise. With the introduction of the direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimens, treatment for HCV has become better tolerated and more effective with shorter durations. Treatment rates for HCV are on the rise with the DAA agents, making it more likely to encounter patients on these medications during hospital admissi...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510055
Solutions for Wellness: Outcome Review and Analysis of a Healthy Lifestyle Group
Valerie King, Rebecca Janis and Gary Burlingame
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: August 30, 2016
Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) experience a notably decreased life span due, in part to a metabolic syndrome linked to psychotropic medications commonly prescribed to SMI patients. Eli Lilly's Solutions for Wellness (SFW) program was designed to address some of the risk factors (e.g., weight, diet, lifestyle) that exacerbate the metabolic syndrome in SMI outpatients. However, there is limited data as to the effectiveness of the SFW program for hospitalized SMI patients....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/3/4/1052
Renal Transplantation: An Update for Anaesthetists
Emma Aitken, Richard Stevenson, Faisal Hanif, Diana Raj, Karen Stevenson and David Kingsmore
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: October 01, 2016
Renal transplantation (RTx) is well established as the optimal method of renal replacement therapy (RRT); however the imbalance between organ supply and demand has led to increased numbers of organs coming from marginal donors. This, in conjunction with an increase in the number of 'marginal recipients', necessitates optimisation of other aspects of transplantation including perioperative care to maintain the excellent outcomes and survival benefit previously published in the literature....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-4630/3/3/1051
A New Age for Sepsis/Septic Shock Diagnosis and Management?
Enrico Giustiniano
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: September 08, 2016
On April 2014 the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the trial ProCESS (Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock): a multi centers study conducted on 1341 patients of 31 academic hospitals of United States. The trial compared three different way to approach and care the septic shock during the first 6 hs....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510042
TB: Falsely Accused? (A Case Report and Discussion)
Kelsy Greenwald and Jo Ann Ball
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 03, 2016
Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) in the past decade have become ubiquitous screening for tuberculosis (TB). Development of these interferon release tests helped screen for TB in patients at high risk, specifically those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The blood test was designed to strongly stimulate interferon release when blood was exposed to a tube laced with TB antigens....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510041
Salivary Glands Ultrasonography in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. Its Role in Early Detection of Secondary Sjogren's Syndrome
Amal Mohamad El-Barbary, Marwa Ahmed Aboelhawa, Abeer Abdelmenem Shahba, Noha Mohamed Shafik, Hala Elsayed Hamouda and Hossam Abdelhafiz Zaytoun
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 01, 2016
One hundred and fifty RA patients classified into two equal subgroups according to the presence of sicca symptoms, in addition to seventy five healthy controls. All patients were subjected to self-reported questionnaire about sicca symptoms, DAS 28, Unstimulated whole salivary flow rate (UWSFR), Schirmer's test, ESR, CRP, RF, Anti- CCP, Anti-Ro, Anti-La antibodies, serum and salivary CXC ligand 13 (CXCL13), B cell activating factor (BAFF), ultrasonography for major salivary gland and biopsy of m...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510022
The Neuroimaging Findings of Internet Gaming Disorder
Dahua Yu, Shaoping Su, Limei Bu, Yao Ma, Kai Yuan and Xiaoqi Lu
Article Type: Short Review | First Published: August 13, 2016
Internet gaming disorder (IGD) was confirmed as a condition warranting more clinical research in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) Section III, which was a great progress for IGD studies. In China, there are about 24 million adolescents with IGD. IGD is involved in academic failure, impairment of work performance and psychological comorbidity including anger problems, depression and anxiety disorders. With the help of advanced neuroimaging tec...