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Critical care nurses have risked their lives and in some cases their families through hazardous duty during the COVID-19 pandemic and have faced multiple ethical challenges.
The purpose of our study was to examine how critical care nurses coped with the sustained multi-faceted pressures of the critical care environment during the unchartered waters of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was anticipated that our study might reveal numerous ethical challenges and decision points.
A qualitative descriptive study, utilizing an interpretivist paradigm.
Critical care nurses, working in either intensive care units or emergency departments (N = 11) who were primarily from Northern California hospitals. Individual in-depth ZOOM® session interviews, guided by semi-structured questions, were used to collect data. Interviews lasted between 18 and 59 min, with an average length of 33 min. Session interviews were transcribed and analyzed.
This study was approved by the researchers' university Institutional Review Board.
equipment, which nurses navigated resourcefully. Most nurses interviewed were motivated by a sense of professional duty. The nurses experienced some moral distress in their inability to advocate as they might like for their patients, especially at end of life. Infection control requirements for isolation.A large share of countries is struggling to provide adequate care to their older populations. To deal with this challenge, philosopher Ingrid Robeyns has advocated legislation that requires (most) citizens to spend 1 year of their life providing dependency care. My aim of this contribution is to strengthen the case for this proposal, which I will refer to as a 'universal care conscription'. I do so by defending this type of conscription against various alternative ways of addressing care-deficits that have been proposed. As I show, not only is it doubtful whether pursuing these alternatives will always, or even generally, suffice to prevent and/or alleviate care-deficits at reasonable financial and moral cost, a universal care conscription has significant civic benefits in an age of polarization that count strongly in its favour.The experience of novelty can enhance memory for information that occurs close in time, even if not directly related to the experience-a phenomenon called "behavioural tagging." For example, an animal exposed to a novel spatial environment shows improved memory for other information presented previously. This has been linked to neurochemical modulations induced by novelty, which affect consolidation of memories for experiences that were encoded around the same time. Neurophysiological research in animals has shown that novelty benefits weakly encoded but not strongly encoded information. However, a benefit that is selective to weak memories seems difficult to reconcile with studies in humans that have reported that novelty improves recollection, but not familiarity. One possibility is that the novelty increases activity in hippocampus, which is also associated with processes that enable recollection. This is consistent with another prediction of behavioural tagging theory, namely that novelty only enhances consolidation of information that converges on the same neuronal population. However, no study has directly explored the relationship between encoding strength and retrieval quality (recollection versus familiarity). We examined the effects of exposure to a novel immersive virtual reality environment on memory for words presented immediately beforehand, under either deep or shallow encoding tasks, and by testing both recall memory immediately, and recognition memory with remember/know instructions the next day. However, Bayes factors showed no evidence to support the behavioural tagging predictions that novelty would improve memory, particularly for shallowly encoded words, and this improvement would differentially affect familiarity versus recollection.
Neurological complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are wide and may rarely involve the peripheral nervous system. However, no case of meningoradiculitis has been well-detailed.
We report a patient with lupus-associated meningoradiculitis.
A 57-year-old woman had SLE without neurological involvement, treated with hydroxychloroquine, methotrexate, and prednisone for 10years. Six months after the drug discontinuation for SLE, she acutely developed gait instability, paresthesia, and neuropathic pain of the four limbs. The neurological examination and nerve conduction studies were consistent with radiculopathies. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed lymphocytic meningitis. The spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed thickening and an enhancement of the lumbosacral roots consistent with meningoradiculitis. The extensive investigations did not argue for a differential diagnosis of SLE. The patient dramatically improved upon corticosteroids. At the last follow-up, the patient still reported mild paresthesia but the clinical examination, the CSF, and the spinal MRI were normal.
This well-detailed case of meningoradiculitis broadens the spectrum of neurological complications in SLE. Early recognition of such complications might lead to efficient immunotherapy.
This well-detailed case of meningoradiculitis broadens the spectrum of neurological complications in SLE. Early recognition of such complications might lead to efficient immunotherapy.Community pharmacists play a crucial role in providing comprehensive patient education regarding contraception methods. This study aims to investigate Jordanian pharmacists' knowledge and perceptions toward male oral contraceptive pills (OCPs). A mixed-explanatory sequential method was divided into two phases. The first was a self-administered electronic survey that was distributed to community pharmacists/trainees in Jordan. The second phase was carried out through online semi-structured in-depth interviews targeting the maximum variation purposive sample of community pharmacists. A total of 158 (response rate 98%) questionnaires were included in the analysis. The majority of the participants were female (n = 118, 74.2%). In terms of knowledge, only 25% of participants acknowledged the presence of male OCPs and almost half were uncertain about the mechanism of action and the possible uses. The findings of the interviews confirmed a relatively negative perception toward male OCPs and the identified barriers to male OCPs were cultural norms, side effects, and poor compliance. It is argued that there is a negative perception toward male OCPs due to the majority of pharmacists not believing such products will be successful in Jordan. Once these pills are approved for their effectiveness and safety, men may need further education and encouragement to take an active role in family planning along with their partners.
African immigrants are a vulnerable population who are seldom seen in the literature, however, the scant research available reports that they experience increased challenges when making family planning decisions. A robust understanding of their specific family planning practices is imperative to providing appropriate, culturally congruent care. Considering this disparity, a scoping review was conducted to synthesize empirical knowledge and identify gaps in the literature around family planning in African immigrant populations in the United States.
Guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework, EMBASE, Global Health Database, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and PubMed were searched for literature regarding family planning topics such as decision-making and health care access among African immigrant women in the United States in June 2020.
The small number of retrieved studies for the literature review clearly highlights a dearth of research. Available evidence indicates stark disparities in health care access, unmet individual needs, and unacknowledged preferences.
Ignoring cultural considerations for the growing African immigrant population perpetuates the divide in family planning practices.
Ignoring cultural considerations for the growing African immigrant population perpetuates the divide in family planning practices.
Bone marrow biopsy is common in patients suspected of having systemic AL amyloidosis. However, little is known about the incidence, morphology and clinical phenotype of non-AL amyloid types in bone marrow.
We retrospectively identified
= 1469 bone marrow amyloid biopsies typed using a proteomics-based method between 2008-2020. Frequency of amyloid types (
= 1469), distribution of amyloid deposits (
= 139), and clinical phenotypes (
= 355), with particular emphasis on cardiac involvement, were assessed.
The amyloid types were AL (
= 1172; 79.8%), ATTR (
= 240; 16.3%), AH (
= 38; 2.6%), AA (
= 17; 1.2%), and Aβ2M (
= 2; 0.1%). Although there were characteristic morphologic features, including periosteal soft tissue and/or vascular involvement in ATTR, interstitial vascular involvement in AA, and variable anatomic compartment involvement in AL, none were pathognomonic. Most patients with both an M-spike and cardiac involvement had AL amyloid in their BM, but in over 10% the amyloid type was ATTR. Compared to AL patients, ATTR patients had higher stage cardiac amyloidosis and lower overall survival, which was mainly due to advanced cardiac stage.
ATTR amyloid is common in bone marrow and its morphologic distribution overlaps with AL. Amyloid typing is critical as over 10% of patients with bone marrow amyloid, cardiac amyloidosis, and an M-spike have ATTR amyloidosis.
ATTR amyloid is common in bone marrow and its morphologic distribution overlaps with AL. compound 3i Amyloid typing is critical as over 10% of patients with bone marrow amyloid, cardiac amyloidosis, and an M-spike have ATTR amyloidosis.In a country where cancer has been dubbed a "national disease" (kokumin bio) that mostly affects Japanese men, this article presents a reading of the cultural scripts underneath prostate cancer-one of the "Western type of cancers" (ōbeigata no gan). The reading is grounded in an adaptation of the "sexual scripting theory," the construct of cancer-literacy, and the analysis of 3,092 newspaper reports published from 2005 to 2020, in three Japanese newspapers with the largest circulation in the country. The analysis is presented in line with three axes cancer-self, cancer-biopedagogy, and cancer-economics to indicate that a cancer-self largely entails the subjectivity of a Westernized, married, heterosexual man who undergoes andropause, needs to understand what bladder somatics is, and depends on his family and the feminization of care to cope with cancer. The chances to prevent and/or survive the disease chiefly hinge on adopting a form of cancer-biopedagogy, which entails a composite entanglement of knowledge and health-related practices underpinned by the ethnicization of cancer through the consumption of "traditional food" (washoku) and the assumption that turning into a "healthy self" is determined by Japanese ethnic traits. Cancer-economics is concerned with costs of testing and treatments, health care insurance policies, and food and dietary supplements that serve to commodify a cancer-self who deals with prostate and urinary-related issues.
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