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K Gutierrez

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PubMed1989

Perioperative nursing in the college curriculum. A custom fit.

Although this course is in its infancy, it has become popular among baccalaureate students. Incoming junior students are enthusiastic about an elective course that provides them an opportunity to focus on an aspect of nursing that is no longer available to them in most nursing programs. The morale of the operating room nursing staff, particularly among the preceptors, has increased tenfold. In an era of nursing shortages, creative and innovative methods of recruiting students and retaining experienced nurses in all fields are vital. This unique course may be one of those methods. It is widely known that high morale yields a more productive work environment, lower turnover, and a cohesive work force that provides high quality nursing care in a most cost-effective manner.

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The European acamprosate trials: conclusions for research and therapy.

In an excellent methodological approach, the European acamprosate study project showed that acamprosate increases sobriety times. In one randomized prospective study (n = 260) comparing acamprosate and placebo, with a 1-year treatment phase and 1-year follow-up phase, the authors found that acamprosate is effective only in Lesch type I and type II patients. To investigate the possible influence of diagnostic subgrouping, we applied the Lesch typology in a co-work with the main researchers of the UK study. The UK results concerning acamprosate's effects in the types do not mirror the Vienna results, but the numbers of type I and type II patients, retrospectively found as included in the UK centers, were too small for any conclusions. The distribution of the types points to the fact that too many type III and IV patients had been included to give acamprosate the chance to be effective. Following our typology and also these studies, we developed special treatment approaches. For relapse prevention studies, the cumulative abstinence duration together with the Lesch typology seems to be promising.

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A case of Asperger's syndrome first diagnosed in adulthood.

A 25-year-old white male patient was admitted to the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Social Psychiatry, of the University of Vienna, Austria, for severe social withdrawal, selective mutism and outbursts of violence with attacks on his mother. Careful examination revealed the presence of all the typical symptoms of Asperger's syndrome. The diagnosis had never been made before, although the patient had a history of a difficult childhood with several admissions to a child psychiatric inpatient unit for 'obsessional neurosis' and an institutional career. It is stressed that, in view of the availability of treatments and the deleterious effect of the untreated condition in the sensitive years of personality development, early recognition and diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome are of utmost importance.

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