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Efficacy and Safety of Inferior Turbinate Coblation-Channeling in the Treatment of Nasal Obstructions
The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of coblation-channeling in the treatment of inferior
turbinate hypertrophy. The study was conducted in the Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, Split University
Hospital Center, Split, Croatia. Fifty-two patients with inferior turbinate hypertrophy who were refractory to medical therapy
were evaluated for coblation. The procedures were performed under local anesthesia using an ArthroCare ReFlexUltra
45 wand; three submucosal channels were made per turbinate. Clinical examinations, a questionnaire on individual nasal
symptoms (hyposmia, nasal drainage and post-nasal drip), a 10-cm visual analog scale (VAS) grading general nasal
obstructions, and rhinomanometry before and 8 weeks after the treatment were administered to assess treatment outcomes.
No adverse effects were encountered. Nasal breathing was significantly improved in all patients, decreasing the
VAS from a median of 7 (range 2–9) to 1 (range 0–3) (p<0.001). Total nasal resistance decreased from 0.44 Pa±0.50 to
0.24 Pa±0.11 (p=0.005). Improvement was statistically significant for all three symptoms (hyposmia [p=0.005], nasal
drainage [p=0.003] and post-nasal drip [p<0.001]). In this paper, we demonstrate that coblation-channeling of the hypertrophic
inferior turbinate is an effective and safe way to reduce nasal obstruction symptoms
ATTITUDES TOWARD COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, BELIEFS IN AFTERLIFE AND RELIGIOSITY AMONG PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS AND THEOLOGISTS
Background: The aim of our study was to investigate the differences in beliefs, attitudes toward CAM, beliefs in afterlife and religiosity among the sample of psychiatrists, psychologists, and theologists. Relationship among these constructs could have impact on the concept of mental health.
Subjects and methods: Research was conducted in the Split urban area, Croatia, during 2017 on a sample of psychiatrists (n=51), psychologists (n=55), and theologists (n=25). Participants were presented a figure of the human body, which contained numbers identifying eight different regions of the body. Participants were asked to select which region best represents the location of the self, soul, and mind in the body. We used CAIMAQ (The Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire) which contains five subscales. The Afterdeath Beliefs Scale was used to measure the varieties of afterlife beliefs. Analyses showed that applied questionnaires have appropriate reliability and expected factor structure.
Results: The most frequent locations of the Soul were 9 (37%, Not located in any centralized region in the body) and 5 (31% chest), whereas Self and Mind were mostly located in the head (43% and 73%). Psychiatrists and psychologists have average scores on positive pole of CAIMAQ but did not differ significantly (p>0.05). There were statistical differences between theologists and psychologists/psychiatrists on two subscales: “nutritional counseling and dietary/food supplements can be effective in the treatment of pathology” and “attitudes toward a holistic understanding of the disease” (p<0.05). There were significant correlations between religion and three CAIMAQ subscales. Although they were mostly religious, psychiatrists and psychologists had a higher average score on Annihilation than theologists. They also did not believe in body resurrection and connection between behavior during life and after death.
Conclusion: The results of our study could have impact on the concept of mental health and in the future must be deeper
evaluated within qualitative research methodology
Psihološki vidovi duhovnog očinstva. Psihologija duhovnog očinstva/oca
Govori se o psihološkom vidu duhovnog očinstva
Je li možda trenutak da preispitamo definiciju kognitivnih poremećaja nakon kardiokirurškog zahvata? Važnost metodološke dosljednosti
High incidence and significance of repercussions on patient health and healthcare
system make postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) a major problem following cardiac surgery.
POCD frequency drops over time since surgery and its occurrence are related to different aspects of
cognitive deterioration that markedly impair the patient quality of life. Therefore, a substantial number
of papers have focused on this complex postoperative complication, however, with limited achievement
in clarifying it. The underlying mechanisms of POCD development and contributing factors are
still unclear. A significant issue in POCD research is the lack of uniformity in defining cognitive
impairment
among investigators, including unique terminology of cognitive changes, a battery of
appropriate
neuropsychological tests, timing of assessment, and statistical approach. Thus, the aim of
this review is to address the difficulties in establishing POCD definition, with inclusion of specific
recommendations based on recent publications.Visoka učestalost i značajnost utjecaja na zdravlje bolesnika i zdravstveni sustav čini poslijeoperacijske kognitivne poremećaje
(POKP) važnom komplikacijom kardiokirurškog zahvata. Učestalost POKP nakon zahvata s vremenom se smanjuje
te je njihova pojava povezana s različitim poremećajima kognitivnih funkcija, što posljedično značajno narušava kvalitetu
bolesnikova života. Stoga, brojni radovi su posvećeni ovoj složenoj poslijeoperacijskoj komplikaciji, ali bez značajnije postignutog
uspjeha u njenom razjašnjavanju. Mehanizmi nastanka kao i čimbenici rizika POKP još uvijek su nejasni. Značajnu
poteškoću u ispitivanju POKP predstavlja nepostojanje jedinstvene definicije kognitivnog oštećenja među istraživačima,
a koje bi zahtijevalo primjenu jedinstvene terminologije kognitivnih promjena, uporabu odgovarajuće baterije neuropsihologijskih
testova, odgovarajuće vremenske trenutke provođenja testova i uporabu prikladne statističke metode. Zbog toga, cilj
ovog preglednog članka je naglasiti poteškoće s kojim se istraživači susreću tijekom postavljanja dijagnoze POKP, te uključivanje
preporuka na temelju pregleda dostupne literature
IZAZOVI U PERCEPCIJI I PRIJEVODU ENGLESKOG POSLOVNOG NAZIVLJA U HRVATSKOM JEZIKU
We can all witness that the global economy, the use of the Internet and social media have result-ed in a greater number of English business terms circulating on the global level, thus inevitably affecting the Croatian language as well. In this article, the authors observe different translations of certain frequently used business English terms from the course books and differences in their perception in English and Croatian language. These differences may be due to students` immer-sion in the new social and educational environment, their previous knowledge of English lan-guage and their acquisition of new vocabulary for specific purposes during their studies at the Polytechnic of Šibenik.Svi možemo svjedočiti da su globalna ekonomija, upotreba Interneta i društvenih medija rezultirali većim brojem engleskog poslovnog nazivlja koji kruži na globalnoj razini, što neizostavno utječe i na hrvatski jezik. Autori u ovom radu analiziraju različite prijevode pojedinih često korištenih izraza poslovnog engleskog iz udžbenika i razlike u njihovoj percepciji na engleskom i hrvatskom jeziku. Te razlike mogu biti posljedica uključivanja studenata u novo društveno i obrazovno okruženje, njihovog prethodnog poznavanja engleskog jezika i stjecanja novog vokabulara za posebne svrhe tijekom studija na Veleučilištu u Šibeniku
Mozgovnjak (Brain, Cerebral Subject) and Mozgovnjaštvo (Brainhood), Contemporary Form of Anthropology and Personality Psychology
In recent times, neuroscience has been one of the fastest-growing scientific branches
with a noticeable influence on various scientific and professional areas of biomedicine as
well as on scientific and professional humanistic and social areas. Based on neuroscience,
many other scientific fields have emerged using the prefix neuro- in their names, such as
neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, neuroascesis, and neuroculture. The expansion of the
field of neuroscience has affected psychosocial, moral, and cultural values. Questions about
the functioning of neurons and of the brain have grown into questions and answers about
mental health and about humans in general. In short, to put it simply, the human being is
reduced to the brain, because everything we know, say, or do, everything that we really are
we are thanks to the brain. This has led us to the modern form of identity, for which the English-speaking world uses the term brainhood and which can be translated into the Croatian
language with the new word mozgovnjaštvo. The derived Croatian term for a cerebral
subject (brain) who is a representative of mozgovnjaštvo (brainhood) would be mozgovnjak.
Mozgovnjaštvo (brainhood) advocates the idea or belief that we are all that we are, or all
that we can be, thanks to the brain. Brainhood tends to place subjectivity somewhere in
the body and regards it as the result of exclusively neural mechanisms, separated from
anything social, human and religious. From the point of view of linguistics, mozgovnjak
and mozgovnjaštvo are new words that fit into the formation system of the modern Croatian
standard language. Mozgovnjak is a noun formed from an adjectival base using the suffix
-jak (combined with iotation), and mozgovnjaštvo is a noun formed from a noun stem with
the suffix -stvo (with a historical phonetic change: k + stvo > štvo)
Stavovi prema braku i motivacija za roditeljstvom kod studenata
Cilj je ovog istraživanja provjeriti kakvi su stavovi studenata prema braku i roditeljstvu te kakva je pritom uloga važnosti vjere u njihovom životu. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 318 studenata sa Sveučilišta u Splitu i to 38 (11,9%) studenata i 279 (87,7%) studentica, prosječne dobi od 20 godina. S obzirom na podrijetlo, 202 sudionika je iz gradske sredine, 67 iz manjeg mjesta, te 49 sa sela. S obzirom na cjelovitost obitelji, gotovo 90% ih je iz cjelovitih obitelji, a 10% iz jednoroditeljskih
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