Professioni infermieristiche
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In 2001 the General Health Direction of Region Lombardia approved (decree n. 22303) a guideline for the prevention of latex allergic reactions in patients and health care workers. This document provides general recommendations in order to standardize behaviors in regional health care facilities. The reason is due to a rise in the incident of reactions to latex products in the last 20 years. Nowadays the prevalence is higher in certain risk groups (subjected to frequent and repeated exposures) rather than the general population. ⋯ Thanks to the literature review and the creation of a multidisciplinar team, we produced a protocol. Therefore, we requested manufacturers the certification of the latex content of their products. Results and conclusion. When latex allergic patients need to undergone surgery in our hospital, a latex safe operating theatre is organized by personnel following a multidisciplinar protocol. No allergic reactions were experienced during surgical procedures after the creation of an environment as free as possible from latex contamination. The project will involve an emergency room, one room or more of a ward and of the outpatients department.
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Attention to patient experience and words represents one of factors that contribute to outcome of care. Beginning from a preliminary analysis of characteristics of scientific and common language, this paper means to contribute to reflection about necessity, for nurse and patient, to share illness meaning in order to effectiveness of relationship.
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The hospitalisation represents a stressful event, particularly for subjects facing surgical procedures. Assuming this situation is traumatic event in which anxiety and stress are lived experiences, we have analysed their influences and implications of the psychological aspects on surgical nursing care process. Patient affected of a various disease, waiting for surgery have been submitted a two different questionnaire (Cognitive, S. ⋯ This phenomenon was greater in those subjects in which the anxious personality was already present and in those with more serious disease. The surgical procedures is a stressful condition that require a positive adaptation for the patient and his relatives. The therapeutical-educative relationships represent the instrument to interact positively with the person and his need to be cured.
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Comparative Study
[Postoperative pain in an urology department: evaluation by patients and by nurses].
A survey conducted in an urological ward of an Italian hospital, has studied the frequency of pain and altered vital signs connected with pain, in the first 36 postoperative hours. Aim of the study was to locate possible differences between pain assessment performed by patients and nurses. 30 patients operated of urological major surgery have been studied. More altered vital sings are pulse and blood pressure, instead respiration is more altered during the night. ⋯ For patients the most painful operation is radical prostatectomy. Nurses had generally substimated pain; only in the 22% of cases there was agreement with the patients, but with they were agreed that the most painful surgical operation is radical prostatectomy. Vital signs alterations are connected with pain peak only in the 25.36% of cases.
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Biography Historical Article
[The fight against poliomyelitis. Search for a vaccine].