两种不同方法测定低水平压力支持通气时气道阻断压与自主呼吸时常规方法测定值的相关性分析

目的 拟比较以两种不同方法测定低水平压力支持通气（pressure support ventilation，PSV）病人的气道阻断压（P0．1）与自主呼吸时常规方法测定值的相关性。方法 12例机械通气病人，断开呼吸机自主呼吸时以常规方法测定P0．1得到P0．1-SB：在PSV水平为5cmH20，以常规方法和按压呼气末暂停键测定P0．1分别得到P0．1-PSV5和P0．1-PSV5eeo．分析后二者与前者之间的相关性。结果 P0．1-SB与P0．1-PSV5之间差异无显著性，P0．1-PSV5ee0分别小于P0．1-SB与P0．1-PSV5，差异有显著性；P0．1-PSV5eeo与P0．1-PSV5和P0．1-SB之间的相关系数均为0．97。结论 按压呼气末暂停键测定PSV水平为5cmH2O的P0．1值与常规方法测定的PSV水平为5cmH2O以及自主呼吸时的测定值相比，其值偏小,但前者与后二者之间具有良好的相关性。     

Predictive testing for Huntington's disease: II. Qualitative findings from a study of uptake in South Wales

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a cohort of 22 test applicants who requested Huntington's disease (HD) predictive testing in South Wales, and a random sample of 32 non-requesters, drawn from the South Wales HD register. Apart from identifying differences between the groups, the study afforded the opportunity to listen, at length, to at-risk individuals' accounts of living at risk and their thoughts about predictive testing and genetic services. Emergent themes included difficulties in family communication and the uncertainties inherent in being at risk and undergoing testing. Important factors in decision making about testing were: moral imperatives to clarify one's genetic status; views about the controllability of the future; family attitudes and norms; and the impact of a test result on family members. At-risk individuals' perceptions of the genetics service were that contact with the service would result in pressure to be tested and a need for test applicants to present a favourable view of coping capacities to secure testing. In addition, there was an expectation of ongoing contact with HD families at the initiative of the service providers. Implications of the findings for the way in which predictive testing services are structured and introduced to the at-risk population are discussed.     

Drug Education: Supporting Parents to Support Children

Such research evidence as exists on effective drug strategies in prevention and education draws attention to the importance of involving parents along with other community agencies and school governors. Much depends nevertheless on the way in which 'involvement' is interpreted and the assumptions that are made about parents' knowledge of drugs and drug education as well as their attitudes to drug issues. As the age of initial experimentation and contact with drugs continues to fall, the importance of enskilling parents to support drug education programmes for 5 year olds and upwards continues to rise. This paper reports the first wide ranging survey of parents' knowledge of drugs and drug issues across an entire English county embracing younger as well as older children. The need for more coordinated, informed and systematic guidance to parents is established.     

Elements of psychological support in nursing care

The paper presents the results of a pilot study which involved 50 nurses from several departments of internal medicine of The State Clinical Hospital of the Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The results are based on the Statement Response Questionnaire. They show that the most common responses of the nurses in the face of anxiety expressed by patients are cheering up the patient, collecting information about the symptom, and offering explanation of the symptom. The least common responses included expressing one's own positive emotions and showing empathy towards the patient.     

Decision making in diagnostic radiology

Radiology can be more interesting if the principles of decision making are understood and used to the advantage of the radiologist, referring clinician and patient. This article seeks to revise the principles that radiologists use intuitively. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of the pre-test probability, as it can be shown to: (i) vary with the referral pool of patients; (ii) be a major determinant of the amount of additional information gained from the test; (iii) alter the sensitivity and specificity of the test; and (iv) determine largely the significance of a positive or negative test result. An investigation helps a clinician by providing information that will move the probability of disease above an action threshold or below its exclusion threshold. If this does not occur as a result of one study, another is selected. This article also describes the factors involved in such a decision tree analysis, as well as discussing the reasons for both selecting a particular examination and deciding when a test should not be performed.     

Moving beyond empiric continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) trials for central sleep apnea: a multi-modality titration study

There is no universally accepted method to determine effective therapy for central sleep apnea (CSA). Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) applied acutely most often does not eliminate apneas and hypopneas. We hypothesized that the application of two or more therapeutic modalities after the diagnostic phase of polysomnography, a multi-modality titration study (MMTS), would identify a successful CSA treatment more often than a standard split-night study (SNS) and obviate the need for additional polysomnograms to determine a successful therapy. We retrospectively analyzed polysomnograms of patients diagnosed with CSA at our Sleep Disorders Center. We defined a therapy trial that resulted in an apnea–hypopnea index < 10 with at least one treatment modality as a therapeutic success. One hundred fifteen patients with CSA were studied. Sixty-six patients (57.4%) underwent a SNS, and 49 patients (42.6%) underwent a MMTS. SNS yielded only 8/66 (12.1%) successes on the first night, whereas a MMTS yielded 19/49 (38.8%) successes (p = 0.001, two-tailed Fishers exact). Patients who underwent a SNS eventually had similar rate of success as patients studied with MMTS (60.6 vs 63.3%, NS), but required more testing. Adaptive servo-ventilation was the most successful modality tested, yielding 36/46 (78.3%) successes. Trials of additional modalities following a failed trial of CPAP often produce a successful option that may guide therapy in patients with CSA. This approach may lead to establishing the diagnosis and treatment plans faster, while reducing unnecessary testing.     

发展民营医院的思路和建议

论述了发展民营医院的思路,针对目前发展民营医院存在的困难和问题提出了对政策调整的建议。