working with personality disorders in an acute psychiatric ward

... observed for instance in the airline business If waiting is necessary, we should avoid waiting at the most expensive slots in the chain, i.e in acute wards for psychiatric treatment[14] The financial ... higher than necessary from a public point of view The American health financial system is organised with a tilt towards shorter waiting times, and thus towards higher expenditure per capita Waiting ... hospital one of four acute wards in the city of Oslo (ca 500.000 inhabitants) The acute wards are often the first step in a chain of facilities that the patient may need in order to regain his functional...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... space in a ward [33] In the present study the number of beds and the space were identical in the two inclusions [15] This finding indicates that an important factor in reducing aggressive incidents ... properties in forensic and acute settings [21,37], and now in a PICU setting The instrument is short, practical and easy to administer in routine care Systematic uses of standardised instruments ... scale scoring behaviours predicting imminent violence in psychiatric inpatients (BVC), were more suitable for predicting short-term violent and threatening incidents in the PICU setting Since BVC...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... both antidepressant and antiepileptic medication [12] The majority of antidepressants not reduce the seizure threshold, and there is growing evidence that many antidepressants have anticonvulsant ... recruited in daily, routine clinical practice at admittance to the acute ward It is difficult to imagine how a blinded research design regarding inclusion could be applied in such a setting When in ... examined and included the patients and helped to draft the manuscript TS planned and supervised the EEG procedures and interpreted the EEGs KAK planned and supervised the MRI procedures and interpreted...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 21:20

... explained in detail in Appendix of Physique and Delinquent Behavior These scores replace Sheldon’s gynandromorphy index, which combined both the feminine and masculine traits into a single index Scores ... dominance of linearity and is associated with thin body types Andromorphy; a measure of the relative masculinity of the overall physique A large quantity of body hair would be an example of an andromorphic ... seriously altered the findings The offspring count ranged from to 10 with a mean of 1.7 The sample included 72 childless individuals Analysis The data were analyzed with SPSS and Simstat Given the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... an in vitro study which measured the uptake of tritiated thymidine by leukemic cells in serum-free and cytokine-free cultures as a means of determining the rate of spontaneous proliferation in ... blasts Competing interests ried out research data and statistics analysis and drafted the manuscript XG participated in animal experiments AJ participated in patient specimens and clinical data ... passage To determine the dissemination of human leukemia cells into distal organs of the animals, tissue sections from sacrificed SCID mice were prepared and stained according to standard techniques...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... contributor in writing the manuscript JP was involved in drafting the manuscript ST managed the patient and critically revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript ... displacement of her heart and mediastinum to the right, and volume loss associated with increased interstitial markings involving her right lung There was no significant bronchiectasis (Figure ... diagnosis and anatomic details can be discerned by CT scanning and MRI Angiography is reserved for patients requiring embolization or revascularization surgery Our patient was diagnosed with UAPA...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... patient in that case report had a principal complaint of dizziness upon standing, and orthostasis was observed with a blood pressure change from 90/50 mmHg supine to 64/40 mmHg standing Upon ... presented with complaints of dizziness upon standing, which was relieved by lying down Physical examination revealed a drop in the patient's blood pressure from 124/80 mmHg supine to 99/70 mmHg one minute ... presented with complaints of positional dizziness and who was found to have a grade 1/6 systolic murmur, and significant orthostatic hypotension Case presentation An 84-year-old Hispanic man presented...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... HCL-32 for patients with mood disorders in China In China, simplified Chinese characters are used, whereas in Taiwan complicated Chinese characters are used Furthermore, in Taiwan different terms ... the Taiwan study [14] Subjects in the present study and that carried out in Taiwan were Chinese In the European and Taiwanese studies, the duration criterion for hypomania was two days but in the ... optimal screening cut-off between BP and UP in psychiatric settings in China Acknowledgements and Funding We thank Dr Alex Gamma (Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Switzerland) for his suggestions...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... bleeding in patients with HSP include the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, testicles and bladder [6] Intracerebral haemorrhage in patients with HSP has been successfully treated in the past with ... daily Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and antinuclear antibodies were negative A renal biopsy was performed which showed diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis with marked IgA staining ... developed an acute intracerebral haemorrhage that coincided with a reactivation of his vasculitis Case presentation A 42-year-old man presented with acute onset of a vasculitic rash on his buttocks and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... “Qualitative interviewing focuses on understanding meanings and the rules of meaning-making” (Baxter & Babbie, 2004, p 325) Subjects for the study were interviewed to gain insight into the critical incidents ... takes an active role in providing one on one admission interviews, financial planning, and career consultations The same principles that apply in increasing communication effectiveness in the ... continuing and completing their education or withdrawing from school The interview question responses gathered from the participants were analyzed using thematic analysis methods outlined in the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 12:07

... Scale, PDS-Intropunitive Scale, PDS-Domineering Social Attitude Scale, PDS-Uninhibited Hostile Acts Scale and PDS-Dominance Scale Afterwards, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with Least Significance Difference ... first day, and determination of cortisol serum levels simultaneously and the next day at 16.00 and 23.00 Cortisol levels expressed in µg/dl were measured with Luminance Immunoassay (intra-essay ... revealed significant findings concerning the number of episodes, and HT, DO and HA subscales of the PDS When PD was used as the sole factor variable, significant findings were found concerning the endogenous...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... administered in inpatients were benzodiazepinesantidepressants (15.6% of patients), atypical drugs-benzodiazepines (14.9%) and benzodiazepines-antidepressants-atypical drugs (9.5%) nosed in an ... 17 18 19 Pincus HA, Zarin DA, Tanielian TL, Johnson JL, West JC, Pettit AR, Marcus SC, Kessler RC, McIntyre JS: Psychiatric patients and treatments in 1997: findings from the American Psychiatric ... disturbance, substance abuse, psychorganic psychoses, mania, undifferentiated, antisocial and non-antisocial personality disorder Observational period The study design and procedures, including...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... gas-forming organisms in this clinical scenario makes it an interesting case Physicians should maintain a high index of suspicion, however, when encountering children with torticollis or unexplained ... Anesthesia was maintained with 66% nitrous oxide in oxygen and 0.5% to 1% halothane in oxygen, while muscle paralysis was induced with 0.1 mg/kg pancuronium Analgesia was ensured with μg/kg fentanyl A ... assisted in preparing and proofreading the manuscript for intellectual content and gave final approval for the publication OEO was the anesthetist, obtained the accompanying images and conceived...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... long time), has an important organic impairment Analyzing the correlations between personality disorders, with organic and disorders (table 5), we conclude that they are so linked in the sample ... process In table 4, the disorders of the subjects are indicated, and also the percentages of total dropouts and integrations Finally, correlations between organic, personality and psychosocial disorders ... narcissistic personality disorder In E F Ronningstam (Ed.), Disorders of narcissism Diagnostic, clinical, and empirical implications (pp 351-373) Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press 28 American Psychiatric...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... differences might exist, with ADHD children being more impaired in inhibition and working memory and children with ASD showing greater difficulties in flexibility and planning referring to the above ... who applied the CANTAB planning task in a large sample of 79 autistic individuals, finding no differences for the mean initial thinking time, but for the mean subsequent thinking time [12] The ... twofold: to investigate profiles of EF (inhibition, flexibility, working memory and planning) in ADHD and ASD with special regard to the comorbidity of ADHD in ASD children and to investigate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... maintain activated and clotting time of 250 to 300 s Patients received intracoronary nitroglycerin (0.1 to 0.2 mg) to achieve maximal vasodilatation before undergoing their initial and final angiograms ... glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained anti-platelet therapy following the procedure (aspirin 300 mg/d for months and 100 ... Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test A P value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant RESULTS Baseline clinical, coronary angiographic and lesion characteristics are shown in Table and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... the SES and PES cohorts A P value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant RESULTS Baseline clinical, angiographic, and lesion characteristics are shown in Tables and The baseline clinical ... lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; MI, myocardial infarction; SAP, stable angina pectoris; USAP, unstable angina pectoris aIndicates patients who received sirolimus-eluting stents Numbers in ... despite our study and several others in which the SES and the PES have been compared, uncertainty still remains regarding whether any real difference in clinical outcomes exists Ong and colleagues8...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... marine shouted, "We're going in! " as he jumped from the landing craft let in let in & lets in letting in let in let in let inlinto p.v When you let people or things in or let people or things into ... plugged in Be careful with that iron — it's plugged in Infinitive present tense sneak in sneak in & sneaks in -ing form past tense past participle sneaking in sneaked in sneaked in sneak inlinto ... Infinitive present tense break in -ing form past tense past participle break in & breaks in breaking in broke in broken in break inlinto p.v When you break in or break into a place,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 16:20

... Accountability is often associated with the aim of increasing the individual citizen’s insight into government routines and principles, producing transparency and providing a presentation of government ... Participation, In Å Sandberg [ed.]: Computers dividing Man and Work – Recent Scandinavian Research on Planning and Computers from a Trade Union Perspective Swedish Center for Working Life, Demos ... from her standpoint, all about emphasising the importance of taking a personal stand and accepting responsibility for the reality producing process in which we are all deeply involved: In this...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 20:15