Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510012
Influence of SOC on the Mental Health Status of Postgraduate Trainee Dentists in Japan
Tohru Takarada, Yoshihisa Sumi and Yoshinori Higuchi
Article Type: Original Research Report | First Published: November 14, 2015
In Japan, a one-year compulsory postgraduate dental training program was started in April 2006. The aim of this training is to supplement the lack of clinical training in the undergraduate curriculum and to meet social requirements. New-entry dentists, who are called trainee dentists, have had their working conditions greatly improved, and are consequently able to concentrate on their clinical training. Trainee dentists must be paid reasonably and their work hours are limited to 40 hours a week ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510012
Organ Donation in a Pediatric Trauma Victim
Jessica Gantz and Savithiri Ratnapalan
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 24, 2015
A previously well 7 year old female was struck by a car traveling 60-70 kms/hr while crossing the street on her bicycle. She had no helmet on at the time of the collision, was thrown 15 feet and landed on her head according to witnesses at the scene. Initial assessment by paramedics within 5 minutes of the event demonstrated a palpable pulse, a patent airway, but no respiratory effort. Initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was recorded as 3. Other obvious injuries noted were an open right femur frac...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3308.1510010
Monitoring for Adverse Events Post Marketing Approval of a Drug
Karl E Peace and Macaulay Okwuokenye
Article Type: Short Review | First Published: November 05, 2015
This brief communication provides information to those developing monitoring plans for serious adverse events (SAE's) following regulatory approval of a new drug. In addition, we (1) illustrate how many patients would need to be treated in order to have high confidence of seeing at least 1 pre-specified SAE, (2) show that absence of proof of a SAE is not proof of absence of that SAE, and (3) identify statistical methodology that could be used for formal statistical monitoring of SAE's....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3308.1510009
A New Strategy for Mitigation of the Allergenic Activity of Ovomucoid in Hen Eggs and Beta-Lactoglobulin in Cow Milk
Jun Kido, Natsuko Nishi, Sachiko Misumi and Tomoaki Matsumoto
Article Type: Short Review | First Published: November 02, 2015
Recently, public interest in food allergies has been increasing because of increasing prevalence of these allergies among children. In Japan, hen egg and cow milk allergies account for nearly 50% of all cases of childhood food allergies. Patients with hen egg and cow milk allergies should avoid these foods and products that contain them until they have outgrown their allergies. However, regarding nutrition, quality of diet, and hyposensitization, it is significantly important for these patients ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-584X/1510007
Buried Balloon: A Novel Complication from Percutaneous Radiologic Gastrostomy Tube Placement
Meghana Vellanki, Steve B Clayton and Patrick Brady
Article Type: Case Series | First Published: November 16, 2015
Gastrostomy tube (G-tube) placement, once a staple of surgeons and gastroenterologists, has propagated into other fields of medicine with interventional radiology (IR) performing percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy (PRG). With more G-tubes being placed by IR, there have been novel complications associated with this technique. In the following case series, we describe one complication as a result of PRG tube placement by IR, called the 'Buried Balloon'....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410059
The Psychological and Compliance Factors can Modulate the Outcome of STEMI Patients Treated by Stem Cell Therapy - A Pilot Study
Miruna Mihaela Micheu, Oana-Maria Udrea, Nicoleta Oprescu, Alina Ioana Scarlatescu, Daniela Pitic, Lucian Calmac and Maria Dorobantu
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: November 13, 2015
In the assessment of stem cell therapy post myocardial infarction, the rapport between the medical intervention and the patient's compliance and psychological factors represent a research and treatment management challenge. Purpose: Identifying the implication of psychological and behavioral factors associated with compliance on therapeutic success in relation to cell therapy in acute myocardial infarction patients....