Casopís lékar̆ů c̆eských
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Casopís lékar̆ů c̆eských · Jan 2005
[Telephone hotlines as a part of complex services for tobacco dependence treatment].
Telephone quitlines for smoking cessation should be included into the available tobacco dependence treatment and should be included into smoking cessation guidelines. Telephone quitlines does not mean only the help to the calling smoker, but also can increase the number of quit attempts in the general population. ⋯ Quitlines are economically effective, although the most expensive form - individual counselling - should be reserved for those really willing to stop. Quitlines should be given governmental financial support (compared to other medical interventions, any smoking cessation treatment is economically more cost effective).
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Casopís lékar̆ů c̆eských · Jan 2005
[Comparison of the prevalence of non-invasive risk markers of the sudden cardiac death in patients treated by thrombolysis and by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty].
Myocardial infarction survivors may develop a higher risk of sudden cardiac death. The risk markers: left ventricular ejection fraction, ventricular premature beats, late potentials on averaged ECG, baroreflex sensitivity and heart rate variability are used as non-invasive stratification markers. ⋯ Patients treated by primary PTCA had significantly lower occurrence of premature ventricular beats and pathological parameters of the heart rate variability.
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Casopís lékar̆ů c̆eských · Jan 2005
Historical Article[34,450 days of cardiac surgery in the Czech Republic].
Professor Karel Maydl was born in Rokytnice nad Jizerou, where his father was employed at the local court. Czech cardio-surgery was born with the first successful treatment of the stab in the heart, which was done by professor Rychlík in 1910. The next few years the cardio-surgery was represented only by occasional treatment of heart injury. ⋯ At the end Professor Maydl, who died for heart failure, is quoted, why he himself had to be stroked by the disease, which is not possible to treat with the knife. In the 100 years since that it is possible to evaluate that in ICEM 283 medical doctors have been treated for the heart disease and results of their operations were Berger than in standard population. It reproves the bad record of doctors to be bad patients.
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Hemodynamic support during the circulatory failure with vasodilation, most frequently during the septic shock, is based on volume recovery and administration of inotropic drugs. If such therapy is not sufficient, vasoconstriction drugs are subsequently or parallel added to maintain the perfusion pressure. As a standard therapy, norepinephrine or other catecholamines with alpha-adrenergic effect are used in rising doses. ⋯ In shock states with the deficit of endogenous vasopressin, which are resistant to high doses of catecholamines, administration of vasopressin analogues represents a new perspective therapy. The treatment should be studied from the point of morbidity and mortality. A careful approach has to be used in septic patients with pre-existing obliterative vassal disease.