Enhancing Nurse Assessment of Alcohol and Drug Dependency: A Preliminary Study

The purpose of this project was to prepare nurses to provide brief interventions for clients with alcohol or other drug (AOD) dependency in order to reduce hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality. The project was a collaborative process between a major medical center and a school of nursing. Nurses were surveyed for understanding of alcohol and other drug assessment, and a day long training was provided to teach techniques of brief interventions. The short-term results included increased knowledge of nurses about AOD assessment. Long-term results indicated that 95% of patients referred to the AOD team were confirmed to have AOD problems (Dunn & Ries, 1997). This project documents the need for nurses to have more knowledge about AOD problems and brief intervention techniques.     

脑血管疾病合并肺部感染的病原学分析及抗生素治疗体会

目的:对脑血管疾病合并肺部感染的病因及病原学进行分析,初步探讨抗生素的合理应用.方法:对2003年1月-2006年11月收住我院的84例脑血管疾病合并肺部感染的患者进行病因学分析,根据呼吸道分泌物培养及药敏试验结果,分析抗生素治疗的效果及疾病转归.结果:脑血管疾病合并肺部感染患者假性球麻痹、意识障碍、低蛋白血症、慢性阻塞性肺部疾病、糖尿病、心脏疾病的发生率均＞30%.病原学分析提示居前3位的病原菌为肺炎克雷伯菌(47株,占27.3%)、铜绿假单胞菌(31株,占18.0%)和金黄色葡萄球菌(21株,占12.2%).其中金黄色葡萄球菌全部对万古霉素敏感,肺炎克雷伯菌、铜绿假单胞菌对亚胺培南、阿米卡星、头孢哌酮 舒巴坦、头孢他啶、环丙沙星等比较敏感,其中肺炎克雷伯菌对亚胺培南、阿米卡星、头孢哌酮 舒巴坦敏感性相对较高,铜绿假单胞菌对亚胺培南、环丙沙星、阿米卡星敏感性相对较高.结论:脑血管疾病合并肺部感染患者多合并高血压、慢性阻塞性肺疾病、糖尿病、心脏病,或出现假性球麻痹、意识障碍、营养状况不佳.脑血管疾病合并肺部感染的主要病原菌为G-杆菌,碳青霉烯类如亚胺培南、氨基糖甙类如阿米卡星、第三代头孢菌素头孢哌酮 舒巴坦、头孢他啶,奎诺酮类如环丙沙星在治疗脑血管病合并肺部感染时可作为经验性优先选用药物.     

Program Directors' Views of the Effect of Managed Care on Substance Abuse Programs in Southern California

This article reports the results of semi-structured interviews with substance abuse treatment (SAT) program directors (PDs) regarding the ways SAT is being influenced by managed care (MC), plans for future SAT, and strategies for decreasing costs of care. It compares findings to an earlier survey of 50 SAT PDs.

Interviews were conducted in 20 SAT programs to gather information about treatment delivery since the advent of MC, including PD responsibilities, funding source, treatment intensity, location, duration, and methods of treatment. Open-ended responses were used to gather information about current and future plans in providing SAT, and awareness of new types of treatment being planned by organizations impacted by MC.

PDs reported changes in SAT secondary to MC such as decreased treatment length, limiting of inpatient and outpatient services, and delayed treatment secondary to benefit determination. Political and economic constraints were seen as barriers to providing adequate and effective services. SAT being subsumed by mental health was viewed as problematic along with an emerging split between alcohol abuse and drug treatment. A positive emerging treatment trend was the development of targeted programs for special need groups.

PDs revealed a variety of strategies that have promoted necessary adaptations to economic and political influences within the structure of managed behavioral care. Strategies such as varying treatment length, modality, and subspecialty care reflected necessary adaptations to diverse market needs.

Managed care continues to have a tremendous impact on the delivery of SAT services. While MC has helped to contain costs, negative outcomes are decreased availability of appropriate care and overtaxing of units that have survived MC cut backs. However, special need programs have allowed SAT programs to specialize, expand, and even flourish in today's competitive SAT market. Interviews with PDs reinforced the need for maintaining quality and diversified SAT services in today's MC environment.     

Effects of haloperidol and amisulpride on motor and cognitive skill learning in healthy volunteers

Buprenorphine is a mu opioid partial agonist currently used as an analgesic, and being developed for the treatment of opioid dependence. The purpose of this study was to determine the abuse liability of parenteral buprenorphine in volunteers maintained on daily sublingual (SL) buprenorphine (8 mg). In a residential laboratory, eight volunteers underwent pharmacologic challenges two times per week. Medication challenges were 16 h after the daily dose of buprenorphine, and consisted of double-blind IM injections of buprenorphine (4, 8, 16 mg), the prototypic mu opioid agonist hydromorphone (9 and 18 mg), or saline. Assessments consisted of physiologic monitoring, subjects’ self-reports, and a trained observer’s ratings of drug effects, and were collected for 0.5 h before and 2.0 h following injection. Supplemental doses of IM buprenorphine produced opioid agonist-like effects, indicating some abuse potential of parenteral buprenorphine in buprenorphine-maintained patients. There was incomplete cross-tolerance to the effects of hydromorphone, suggesting that higher maintenance doses of buprenorphine may be needed to maximize clinical efficacy. However, there was a lack of graded dose-effects for hydromorphone, suggesting that buprenorphine’s combination of partial agonist effects and high affinity for opioid receptors may limit the magnitude of effects of supplemental full agonists. Finally, participants tolerated cumulative doses of maintenance buprenorphine plus challenge buprenorphine without adverse effects, suggesting higher doses of buprenorphine can be safely administered to opioid dependent patients. Received: 22 February 1996/Final version: 23 August 1996     

Assessment of sexual abuse and trauma: Clinical measures

Examined are several measures currently used in the assessment of child abuse, sexual abuse, and trauma. These measures include structured clinical interviews, self report measures, screening inventory, symptom checklist, and some measures that include decision making properties. Issues and implications for clinical practice are explored.     

慢性重症病毒性肝炎并发医院内曲霉菌感染

1976～1991年我院收治慢性重症病毒性肝炎并发曲霉菌感染15例,感染于住院后3～112天,<30天9例。以血性痰液、胸水、腹水、脑脊液为特点。多数周围血象白细胞不增高,中性粒细胞增高,IgG增高,曲霉菌( );感染后2～10天均死亡。感染前咽部检出白色念珠菌6例,滥用抗生素者占80％。     

32578例住院患者医院感染调查分析

目的　了解我院住院患者医院感染发病率。方法　对我院 2 0 0 2年 32 5 78例住院患者进行调查。结果　 5 48例发生医院感染 (1.6 8%) ,最高科室为 9.79%,以下呼吸道最常见 (37.79%)。检出病原菌 184株 ,以革兰阴性菌为主 (49.46 %) ,多为铜绿假单胞菌、大肠埃希菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、肺炎克雷伯菌。前者对常用抗菌药物耐药率均 >5 0 %,对亚胺培南的耐药率为 81.82 %。结论　加强重点易感区域的监测、细菌的耐药性监测和培训教育 ,以更有效的预防和控制医院感染。     

泌尿系感染者病原菌及耐药性分析

目的：了解近年来泌尿系细菌感染致病菌及耐药性，为合理应用抗生素，提供临床根据。方法：对泌尿系感染患者298株病原菌进行药物敏感试验。结果：大肠埃希菌仍是引发泌尿系感染的主要病原菌，占53％，其次是葡萄球菌属，占19．40％，肠杆菌属占10．06％，肠球菌属占4．70％等，各类菌属耐药情况。结论：临床医师必须关注本地病原菌分布及耐药情况，合理应用抗生素，减少耐药性播散。     

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CLINICAL USE OF ANTIBIOTIC AND PRODUCTION OF ESBLS

Extended -spectrum β -lactamases(ESBLs)aremainlyproducedbymembersofthefamilyEnter obacteriaceaewhichcanhydrolyzeβ -lactamantibi oticsincludingthethird - generationcephalosporinandaztreonam ,theESBLs- producingbacillishowedmedian -highresistancetoceftazidimeandaztreonamparticularly[1] .NowadaystheprevalenceofESBLs -producingstrainshavebeenreportedinmanyareasaroundtheworld[2 ] .ButthereisfewinformationabouttherelationshipbetweentheuseofantibioticandtheproductionofESBLs .Weperformedastud…