scholarly journals P9‐63: Prevalence and clinical relevance of pertussis infection in adult patients with asthma

Respirology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (S3) ◽  
pp. 387-387
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Pertussis Infection

The Establishment of an Intravenous Conscious Sedation Service for Adult Patients in a Primary Dental Care Setting

Dental Update ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Rebecca SL Binnie ◽  
Nigel D Robb ◽  
Sarah L Manton ◽  
Stephen J Bonsor
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Procedures ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Conscious Sedation ◽  
Dental Anxiety ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Behaviour Management ◽  
Dental Practitioners ◽  
Management Techniques

Dental anxiety is common within the population and can detrimentally affect the delivery of dental care for those patients affected. Non-pharmacological-based behaviour management techniques are available to the clinician but may not be sufficient or applicable for every patient. In such cases, intravenous conscious sedation with midazolam has been demonstrated to be safe, effective and well tolerated. The present article reviews the criteria and guidance which must be addressed by the dental team when establishing an intravenous conscious sedation service in a primary dental care setting. CPD/Clinical Relevance: General dental practitioners may wish to consider establishing a conscious sedation service in their practices to facilitate the care of nervous patients or those undergoing prolonged, unpleasant treatments such as surgical procedures. The present paper aims to highlight the considerations which require to be addressed in order to establish such a service for adult patients using intravenous midazolam.

Adult Patients' Postoperative Pain Descriptions and Responses to the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Dillon McDonald ◽  
Constance Spagnola Weiskopf
Keyword(s):  
Postoperative Pain ◽  
Pain Intensity ◽  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Clinical Usefulness ◽  
Mcgill Pain Questionnaire ◽  
Precise Information ◽  
Pain Questionnaire

This study examined the clinical usefulness of the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ). Thirty postoperative patients were asked to describe their postoperative pain and then administered the SF-MPQ. Eighteen (60%) used exact SF-MPQ sensory or affective words or synonyms to describe their postoperative pain during the interview. These results provide further evidence of the clinical relevance of the SF-MPQ sensory and affective scales. Pain descriptions by patients that go beyond pain intensity descriptions may communicate more precise information about the pain and lead to more effective pain interventions. Patients with difficulty describing their pain might be assisted by using the SF-MPQ.

scholarly journals Clinical Relevance of Multiple Respiratory Virus Detection in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Illness

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1172-1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong-Ho Choi ◽  
Jin-Won Chung ◽  
Hye Ryoun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Lung Disease ◽  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Respiratory Virus ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Nasopharyngeal Swab ◽  
Acute Respiratory Illness ◽  
Rt Pcr

Because increasing numbers of nasopharyngeal swab specimens from adult patients with acute respiratory illness (ARI) are being tested by respiratory virus (RV) multiplex reverse transcriptase PCR (RVM-RT-PCR), multiple RV detection (MRVD) is being encountered more frequently. However, the clinical relevance of MRVD in adult patients has rarely been evaluated. The clinical characteristics of hospitalized adult patients with ARI and MRVD by RVM-RT-PCR tests were compared to those of patients with single RV detection (SRVD) during a single year at a tertiary care center. MRVD was observed in 26 of the 190 adult patients (13.7%). The patients with MRVD had a higher incidence of chronic lung disease than the patients with SRVD (34.6% versus 15.9%, crude odds ratio [OR] = 2.81, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.13 to 6.98,P= 0.03). Although the former were more likely than the latter to receive mechanical ventilation (19.2% versus 6.7%, crude OR = 3.31, 95% CI = 1.05 to 10.47,P= 0.049), the length of hospital stay (median, 7 versus 6.5 days;P= 0.66), and the in-hospital mortality rate (7.7% versus 4.3%, crude OR = 1.87, 95% CI = 0.37 to 9.53,P= 0.35) were not different between the two groups. In multivariate analysis, chronic lung disease was associated with MRVD (adjusted OR = 3.08, 95% CI = 1.12 to 8.46,P= 0.03). In summary, it was not uncommon to encounter adult patients with ARI and MRVD by RVM-RT-PCR tests of nasopharyngeal swab specimens. MRVD was associated with chronic lung disease rather than the severity of the ARI.

Pulp Capping with Mineral Trioxide Aggregate (MTA): A Retrospective Analysis of Carious Pulp Exposures Treated by Undergraduate Dental Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Miles ◽  
A. H. Gluskin ◽  
D. Chambers ◽  
O. A. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Treatment Option ◽  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Mineral Trioxide Aggregate ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Therapeutic Challenge ◽  
Pulp Capping ◽  
Successful Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Clinical Relevance Carious pulp exposures present a therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is a treatment option that may provide successful outcomes for the capping of carious pulp exposures in adult patients. However, the success measured as pulp survival over a period of one and two years of pulp caps performed by undergraduate dental students may be low. This study provides data regarding the impact of exposure sizes and other pre-operative variables on outcomes of MTA pulp caps in adults.

Selected Abstracts of Recent Research in Stuttering

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Carrie Bain ◽  
Nan Bernstein Ratner
Keyword(s):  
Large Volume ◽  
Clinical Relevance

Due to the large volume of fluency-related publications since the last column, we have chosen to highlight those articles of highest potential clinical relevance.

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