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W George

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PubMed2002

[Communication center in public health].

The Communications Center's portfolio covers areas such as marketing, contacts, distribution of information, sales activities and collection of bills by telephone (encashment). A special emphasis is Customer Care Management (Customer Relationship Management) to the patient and his caregivers (relatives), the customers, especially the physicians who send their patients to the hospital and the hospital doctor. By providing communication centers, the hospital would be able to improve the communication with the G.P.s, and identify the wishes and requirements more accurately and easily from the beginning. Dealing effectively with information and communication is already also of special importance for hospital doctors today. One can assume that the demands on doctors in this respect will become even more complex in the future. Doctors who are involved in scientific research are of course fully aware of the growing importance of the Internet with its new information and communication channels. Therefore analysing the current situation, the demands on a future information management system can be formulated: A system that will help doctors to avoid dealing with little goal-oriented information and thus setting up effective communication channels; an information system which is multi-media oriented towards the interests and needs of the patients and patient's relatives and which is further developed continually and directly by those involved.

Communication↗
PubMed2002

[Can communication centers have a positive influence on coping with illness?].

How the subjective conditions of coping can be improved by new information technologies like Medicine Call Centers? The solution of this question is the basic purpose of the article on hand. The historical genesis and the most important differentiations of coping research and how state of the art communication technology and its organisation works, will be briefly presented. Founding on this report and additionally emphasizing and including the work of Badura (1985, 1987, Badura et al. 1997, 1999) one has to concern that the coping of sickness under hospitalized conditions can be improved by supporting influences named antistressors. Communication in the hospital can work as an antistressor. Considering the discussed results and using the possibilities of new communication technologies at last an appropriate model will be developed which is based on a call center.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2001

End-tidal carbon dioxide measurements as a prognostic indicator of outcome in cardiac arrest.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the use of end-tidal carbon dioxide values in predicting survival in cardiopulmonary arrest. BACKGROUND: The decision about when to terminate resuscitative efforts for patients with cardiopulmonary arrest is often subjective. End-tidal carbon dioxide values have been suggested as potential objective criteriafor making this decision. METHODS: This study was a cooperative effort of the St Louis chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and its members and involved 6 hospitals and an air evacuation service. All adult patients who had a cardiopulmonary arrest were eligiblefor the study. Once a patient with cardiac arrest was intubated, end-tidal carbon dioxide and cardiac rhythms were measured and recorded every 5 minutes for 20 minutes or until resuscitation efforts were terminated. Patients' survival at the time of the arrest, survival 24 hours after the arrest, and discharge status were followed up. RESULTS: A total of 127 patients were enrolled in the study. All but 1 patient with end-tidal carbon dioxide values less than 10 mm Hg died before discharge. End-tidal carbon dioxide values greater than 10 mm Hg were associated with various degrees of survival. Overall survival to discharge was less than 14%, regardless of the end-tidal carbon dioxide value. CONCLUSION: Measurements of end-tidal carbon dioxide can be used to accurately predict nonsurvival of patients with cardiopulmonary arrest. End-tidal carbon dioxide levels should be monitored during cardiopulmonary arrest and should be considered a useful prognostic value for determining the outcome of resuscitative efforts.

Capnography↗
PubMed1997

Lymphocyte proliferative response and tissue distribution of methylmercury sulfide and chloride in exposed rats.

The immunotoxic effects and tissue distribution of different forms of methylmercury compounds were studied in rats. Methylmercury sulfide or methylmercury chloride was fed to rats at concentrations of 5 or 500 microg/L in drinking water for 8 wk. T-cell lymphocyte proliferative response to phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and determination of tissue distribution of mercury by gas chromatography using electron capture were assayed. Four different forms of mercury compounds were employed: MeHgS-, (MeHg)2S, (MeHg)3S+, and MeHgCl. Results indicated that exposure to methylmercury significantly enhanced lymphocyte responsiveness in most of the exposed groups at the low concentration of 5 microg/L, with the highest proliferative response (fourfold increase) in the MeHgCl group. At 500 microg/L, a significant decrease in the lymphocyte proliferative response was observed in the (MeHg)3S+ and MeHgCl groups; conversely, the MeHgS(-)- and (MeHg)2S-exposed animals had a modest increase of the lymphocyte proliferative response. The largest concentrations of all four mercury forms were detected in the kidney and spleen. The levels of mercury found in kidney, spleen, liver, brain, and testis were lower in the MeHgCl group than in those exposed to (MeHg)2S and (MeHg)3S+. These data indicate that the organ distribution of mercury and immune alteration may vary according to the chemical structure of the compound. This observation may have important implications in humans potentially exposed to low levels of methylmercury present in the environment, since the immune system plays an important regulatory role in the host-defense mechanisms.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed1989

[Current empirical data on conditions in relation to death in the hospital].

This survey-study represents the psycho-social conditions of death in West-German hospitals as seen from different occupational groups. The test, developed for this task, has been applied in 70 hospitals of different federal states, medical-departments and supporters. It is shown that following factors have an essential influence on the attitudes of people to the needs of the dying patient: amount of medical engineering at ward, time of professional activity and status of the personnel. In sum, the study gives a dark picture of death situation. Most helpers hold that situation inhumane. This is a burden for the helpers themselves. The results of the study tell against the efficiency of actual engagement in dying patients. The author develops some proposals, how the requests of thanatology that were adequat to improve the actual situation, could better be transferred to the practice.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1982

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Austria↗