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Biography Historical Article
[Personality and work of Florence Nightingale--creator of modern nursing and public health pioneer].
Through her "calling to service", Florence Nightingale worked as a nurse, manager, researcher, reformer, writer and teacher. The aim of this study is to present Florence Nightingale in all these roles, pointing out all complexity and multidimensionality of nursing profession. ⋯ Her complete and lifelong devotion to the ,,calling" directed all her activities, contributions and achievements, not only towards nursing but also towards statistics, epidemiology, public health and social sciences.
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Modern hospital pharmacology insists on assessing each patient's individual characteristics because of their influence on drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic effect. The study was aimed at evaluating anesthetic doses in patients with benign larynx tumors treated by general endotracheal anesthesia during endoscopic surgery procedures. ⋯ It is possible to overdose anesthetic drug during surgery without using bispectral index technology monitoring during general anesthesia in otorhinolaryngology maxillofacial surgery. Bispectral index monitoring should be the clinical standard in general anesthesia.