Stress disease of the 21st century?

The concept of stress is already 80 years old, the issue is getting better researched. Mechanisms of action better understood. We notice the difference between eustress and distress - that what is good and usefull for our body, and what is not. This topic of this research is getting more and more important - faster and faster pace of life, more and more civilization diseases. 77% of people regularly experience physical symptoms of stress, while psychologically, 73%. With such figures, the authors would like to draw attention to the importance of this issue and to what are the latest findings in this area, what else has to be done and how can we now handle it. The amount of illness that is associated with stress is enormous. Whether directly as their main cause or indirect as a factor predisposing to its occurrence. Literature provides numerous examples of immunology, cardiology or neurology. Extremaly worrying is the impact of stress during pregnancy to the adult life of an unborn child. Of course we can also find ways of treating it, whether it is pharmacological: stress or its consequences or by reducing stress. In conclusion, this is a significant condition that has a large effect on a large number of people. Worrying that even doctor and nurses who have knowledge of this subject is not devoid of the negative effects of stress. Exactly due to the specifics of work more exposed

New possibilities in Pectus Excavatum

Pectus Excavatum is one of the most frequent deformations of the chest wall, diagnose and surgical treatment mainly in pediatric patients (1:300 - 1:1000 live births). More often in men than in women, the etiology of this disease is not entirely clear, probably multifactorial. The aim of the study was to analyze the current literature regarding the surgical treatment of pectus excavatum and to indicate new treatment options. For the purpose of this study, we analyzed the current papers on pectus excavatum found in the PubMed database. The Ravich and Nuss procedure remains the basic way to treat pectus excavatum, and over the years both methods have found their supporters. The work focused on the improvement of both of these methods, however, mainly the Nuss Procedure was considered, becasue of be minimally invasive. Attention was also paid to the possibility of simultaneous implementation of both methods and advantages of this way for the patients. The new possibilities concern not only the surgical techniques itself, but also the new technical possibilities used in surgery. Nowadays, the scientific focuses on improving currently used methods by reducing operational risk, shortening the time of surgery, and thus improving patient safety and, of course, improving its quality of living. Most likely, with the development of technology, further options will be adapted to the treatment of Pectus Excavatum

Społeczne, gospodarcze i polityczne relacje we współczesnych stosunkach międzynarodowych

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Contemporary determinants of international relatioos

Z wprowadzenia: "Nauka o stosunkach międzynarodowych nie może się obejść bez systematyzowania i porządkowania omawianej przez siebie niezwykle szerokiej materii. Poszukując odpowiedzi na pytania związane z relacjami pomiędzy uczestnikami interakcji międzynarodowych, nie sposób nie dostrzegać czynników, jakie na nie wpływają, czy to w sposób pośredni czy też bezpośredni, zależny lub niezależny od nich. Wielość tych czynników i zmienność wagi przykładanej do poszczególnych, zależnie od epoki, stwarza konieczność gruntownego badania i wskazywania na najważniejsze z nich, decydujące w danym okresie."(...

Are medical students aware of surgical checklist and basics of patient safety in the OR? - Medical University of Lublin experience

Gołębiowska Maria, Gołębiowska Beata. Are medical students aware of surgical checklist and basics of patient safety in the OR? - Medical University of Lublin experience. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(1):18-25. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1134658 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5184 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/843880 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 09.12.2017. Revised: 15.12.2017. Accepted: 02.01.2018. Are medical students aware of surgical checklist and basics of patient safety in the OR? - Medical University of Lublin experience Authors: Maria Gołębiowska1, Beata Gołębiowska2 MD, PhD, 1 Student, I Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lublin 2 Pediatric Neurology Department, III Chair of Pediatrics, Medical University of Lublin Abstract: WHO Surgical Checklist is a tool created for the operating teams in order to provide a surgical safety track of procedures, unified in a worldwide scale. Patient safety is still the biggest challenge of healthcare, despite the introduction of newest technology and medicine overcoming plenty of surgical challenges in modern surgery. Among 8% of all adverse events are surgical adverse events, and nearly half of them could be easily preventable. That is why the aim of our study is to examine the awareness and knowledge level of medical students about surgical safety procedures. For this purpose, the survey on the basic understanding of surgical checklist and patient safety within surgical procedures was distributed during surgical workshops both basic and advanced skills in years 2015-2016 for 115 students. Respondents age, country of origin, year of study, previous attendance to surgical procedures information was also obtained. Our study proved, that the vast majority of medical students interested in surgical fields as their future profession are unaware of surgical safety procedures and its basic terminology (85% of respondents). The highest response of correct answers was noted within sign out procedures - post surgical check-up within the OR (74%). The Surgical Safety Checklist unifies the process of avoiding human error in surgery at all costs. However, despite 15 years of introduction to the surgical field, the medical education methods among undergraduate students are still insufficient. This should be changed in order to save more lives and provide better health care for all, with the most important principle in mind - first, do no harm. Keywords MeSH: patient safety, surgical checklist, surger