Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410056
Methyl-Ergonovine Stress Echocardiography in the Study of Kounis Syndrome due to Anisakis Simplex: A Case Report
Jorge A Restrepo, Jorge Salamanca, Guillermo Diego, Fernando Rivero, Fernando Alfonso and Rio Aguilar
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 10, 2015
A 51-year-old man, smoker (20 packs-year) with no known allergies and no medical history of previous symptoms or cardiovascular disease. Two hours after eating a raw fish dish of hake and prawn, the patient presented intense oppressive chest pain, dyspnea, diaphoresis, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomit....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410055
Mycophenolate Mofetil-Induced Colitis in a Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipient
Lindy Moore, Anita L Sengupta and Bibhuti Das
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 10, 2015
Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) is a frequently used immunosuppressive medication in pediatric heart transplant (HT) patients. Although therapeutic monitoring of MMF has been an integral part of routine practice for many years, there is growing evidence that genetic variation in host can lead to adverse outcomes such as drug toxicities. Maintaining a reasonable balance between efficacy and toxicity in an individual patient remains one of the major challenges in pediatric HT recipients....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410054
Ultrafiltration in Heart Failure: Experience in a French University Hospital
David Boutarin Raphaelle - Ashley Guerbaai and Patricia Armand
Article Type: Perspective | First Published: September 24, 2015
Venovenous ultrafiltration is an alternative therapy used in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), persistent congestion and failing diuretics. This therapy enables removal of excess water in order to reduce fluid overload. Ultrafiltration has been used for over ten years in the United-States, however was only introduced in France three years ago, in very few hospitals....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510019
Novelties in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot: Hyperbaric Oxygen and Rich Platelet Plasma Therapy
Ana Maria Arnaiz-Garcia
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 30, 2015
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is useful as an adjunct or primary therapy of multiple processes, such as gas embolism, carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression treatments, myonecrosis, ischemic traumatic injuries, compartment syndrome, severe anemia, brain abscesses dued to Actinomyces spp., necrotizing infections, refractory osteomyelitis, radiation necrosis, burns and it is also useful in situations in which the evolution of a graft or skin flap is unfavorable despite other treatments....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510018
Psychometric Evaluation of Clinical Learning Motivation Scale
Behice Erci
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: November 26, 2015
Motivation is the occurrence acting, learning and moving feelings in human beings. Motivation in work life can be described as additional rights and rewards for working people to do their jobs better, more qualified and faster and also to occur their feelings. In having motivation a person must first believe that he is able to manage the work before he has decided....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510017
Illuminating the Mystique of Honor in Nursing
Paulina Van
Article Type: Short Commentary | First Published: November 26, 2015
Honor in nursing contributes to the profession and practice of nursing and, more importantly, to the lives nurses touch. HONOR also serves as a mnemonic that can guide nurses as they seek to bring honor to themselves and the profession. Through attention to their hearts, opportunities, never being complacent, providing outstanding care and reflecting, nurses can transform nursing practice and patient encounters into outstanding optimal care, maintaining their standing as the most honorable profe...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510016
'Stop, Drop and Run,' Physical Fitness Program for Firefighters Created by Nurses at a Regional Burn Center
Steven A Kahn, Alexa Hinton, Amanda Gonzales and Teri Huff
Article Type: Short Commentary | First Published: November 22, 2015
Historically, fire departments have worked in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team of nurses, doctors and other healthcare providers that care for thermally injured patients at burn centers. The close relationship and shared ideals between burn centers and fire department allows them to combine resources to better serve individual patients, but also the community at large through outreach and community education related to safety, fire prevention and injury prevention....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510015
Creative and Innovative Mentoring Program for Improving Diverse Students in Education
Sharon Elizabeth Metcalfe
Article Type: Review article | First Published: November 04, 2015
Despite the increased diversity and multicultural transformation of the population within the United States, the majority of nurses in the workforce are found to be educated from Caucasian backgrounds. At present, there is minimal inclusion of students from underrepresented ethnic minorities, as well as students from the rural Appalachian region. This article describes an innovative and creative mentoring program that was implemented at a university to increase the diversity of the student enrol...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5807/1510014
Cancer Stem Cell Microenvironment in Canine Glioblastoma Development: Animal Model for Human Disease
George Stoica
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: November 30, 2015
Understanding the cancer stem cells (CSCs) role in malignancy is based on a comprehensive understanding of normal stem cells role and plasticity in maintaining the normal homeostasis or regeneration in various organ tissues. The niche microenvironment that sustains and regulates stem cells is tightly regulated by physical factors and hormonal signals. In the central nervous system (CNS) malignancy the CSCs niche is deregulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors, which disrupt the homeostatic bal...