Irish journal of medical science
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It is known that targeting cancer-related modifiable risk factors is the best way to fight cancer. Behavioral and lifestyle changes can significantly reduce the burden of cancer. ⋯ People who have relatives with cancer had less modifiable risk factors, which might reflect on their willingness to modify their cancer-related risk factors.
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Observational Study
Prone positioning for mechanically ventilated patients with coronavirus disease 2019: the experience of an Irish regional hospital intensive care unit.
The benefits of prone positioning in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been known for many years. While some controversy exists regarding whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia should be treated with the same therapeutic strategies as for non-COVID ARDS, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign still provide a weak recommendation to utilise prone positioning in this setting. ⋯ We found prone positioning to be a safe method of significantly improving oxygenation in mechanically ventilated patients with severe COVID-19 ARDS. We did not find a relationship between patient baseline characteristics nor illness severity and degree of PaO2/FiO2 ratio improvement, nor did we find a relationship between degree of PaO2/FiO2 ratio improvement and survival.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the traditional delivery of medical education. Medical education programmes have had to cope with limitations on face-to-face learning, and accelerate the adoption of digital learning. In addition, the pandemic has potential serious implications on the psychological well-being of medical students. We aim to assess the changes in perceptions and experiences of medical students as a consequence of this pandemic. ⋯ Digital content and delivery confer the benefit of greater flexibility in learning, the ability to learn at one's own pace and in a preferred environment, however lacks the advantage of bedside teaching and hands-on training. Our findings reinforce the potential advantages of online learning.
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The brief rise in blood glucose level during acute physiological stress in patients with no previous symptoms of diabetes mellitus is called stress hyperglycemia. ⋯ For patients who are admitted to the hospital with STEMI, stress hyperglycemia in the non-DM group and hyperglycemia in the DM group are associated with both mortality and adverse conditions; thereby, glucose levels of those patients must be evaluated.
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The incidence of breast cancer (BC) has been on the rise over the last decades in the USA, and it is most frequently diagnosed among women aged 65-74 years. ⋯ Turkish BC patients are diagnosed at younger ages than BC patients in developed countries, and this portends a significant health problem. Therefore, it is important and vital that society be educated about the disease without any further delay and screening programs should be instated effectively and extensively from the age of forties.