Eficacia del tratamiento conservador en las fracturas mandibulares / Effectiveness of the conservative procedure in mandibular fractures

Se realizó un estudio en 30 pacientes con fractura mandibular, que fueron atendidos en el servicio de cirugía máxilofacial del Hospital Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado", en el periodo comprendido desde el 1ro de noviembre del 2002 hasta el 28 de febrero del 2006, con el objetivo de demostrar la eficacia del tratamiento conservador en las fracturas mandibulares según los resultados obtenidos con la reducción de la fractura, fijación y oclusión dentaria. Se plantean y analizan los resultados obtenidos, encontrando una mayor incidencia de estas fracturas de 25 a 34 años de edad, siendo las fracturas con desplazamiento y factor dentario favorable las de mayor incidencia y existiendo en el 100 % de los pacientes, al realizar el tratamiento conservador una reducción anatómica, adecuada fijación y buena oclusión. Palabras Clave: FRACTURAS MANDIBULARES/Cirugía/Terapia ABSTRACT A study of 30 patients suffering from mandibular fracture attended at the Oral Surgery Office was carried out at "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado" General hospital during November 1, 2002 to February 28, 2006. It was aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of the findings obtained with the reduction of the fracture, fixation and dental occlusion. Findings were analyzed showing a higher incidence in 25 -34 year-old subjects, having the dislocated fractures and the dental factor a higher incidence. In 100% of cases it was observed an anatomic reduction and a proper fixation as well as a good occlusion when the conservative procedure was done. Key words: MANDIBULAR FRACTURES/Surgery/Therap

Cirugía ambulatoria con anestesia local en el tratamiento de la comunicación buco sinusal mediata y tardía / Ambulatory Surgery using local anaesthesia in the treatment of the mediate and late sinusal oral communication

Se realizó un estudio longitudinal y prospectivo sobre el tratamiento quirúrgico de la comunicación bucosinusal (CBS) mediata o tardía de modo ambulatorio y con anestesia local en el período comprendido entre septiembre del año 2002 y agosto del 2006 cuya muestra estuvo constituida por los 41 pacientes que con ese diagnóstico fueron tratados en el Hospital general docente "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado" (muestreo no probabilístico) en el lapso antes mencionado con el propósito de demostrar que la cirugía de la CBS mediata y tardía se puede realizar de modo satisfactorio con anestesia local y de forma ambulatoria. El trabajo se realizó cumpliendo con los principios de Bioética establecidos. Los resultados fueron procesados estadísticamente utilizando el test de comparación para los estudios comparativos sin la corrección de yates, trabajando con un nivel de confiabilidad de alfa igual o menor que 0.05. Esto permitió concluir que es posible realizar el tratamiento de la CBS mediata o tardía consistente en la antrotomía radical con técnica de Caldwel Lock de modo totalmente satisfactorio, sin complicaciones adicionales a las descritas en esta técnica, utilizando el modo ambulatorio y la anestesia local, que el transoperatorio cursó de forma satisfactoria, teniendo los pacientes una evolución post quirúrgica favorable con las múltiples ventajas que ofrece esta modalidad de tratamiento para el paciente, los familiares, la institución, la sociedad y la economía. El impacto económico es considerable con un ahorro para el hospital tanto por el tipo de anestesia, como por la cirugía ambulatoria de $30 961.174. Palabras clave: Cirugía., Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Ambulatorios/Métodos, Anestesia Local/Métodos, Sinusitis Maxilar/Cirugía. ABSTRACT A longitudinal prospective study on the surgical ambulatory treatment of the mediate or late oral sinusitis communication was carried out using local anaesthesia in September 2002 and August 2006. Sample was comprised of 41 patients treated in "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Hospital" (non-probabilistic sample). The present study was aimed at proving that the mediate or late surgery of the OCS is able to be ambulatory and performed under local anaesthesia. The bioethical principles were followed. Results were statistically processed using the comparative test for the comparative studies without the Yates correction and working with a confidence level of á= 0.05. It allowed concluding that is possible to prescribe the mediate or late OCS using the radical antrotomy with Caldwell Lock technique successfully. The transoperative period was also successfully using the ambulatory surgery and local anaesthesia, having many advantages for the patient, family and the facility as well as the society and economy. The economical impact is great saving$30 961.174 to the hospital Key words: Surgery, Ambulatory Surgical Procedures/Methods, Local Anaesthesia/Methods, Maxillary Sinusitis/Surgery

Eficacia del tratamiento conservador en las fracturas mandibulares / Effectiveness of the conservative procedure in mandibular fractures

Se realizó un estudio en 30 pacientes con fractura mandibular, que fueron atendidos en el servicio de cirugía máxilofacial del Hospital Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado", en el periodo comprendido desde el 1ro de noviembre del 2002 hasta el 28 de febrero del 2006, con el objetivo de demostrar la eficacia del tratamiento conservador en las fracturas mandibulares según los resultados obtenidos con la reducción de la fractura, fijación y oclusión dentaria. Se plantean y analizan los resultados obtenidos, encontrando una mayor incidencia de estas fracturas de 25 a 34 años de edad, siendo las fracturas con desplazamiento y factor dentario favorable las de mayor incidencia y existiendo en el 100 % de los pacientes, al realizar el tratamiento conservador una reducción anatómica, adecuada fijación y buena oclusión. Palabras Clave: FRACTURAS MANDIBULARES/Cirugía/Terapia ABSTRACT A study of 30 patients suffering from mandibular fracture attended at the Oral Surgery Office was carried out at "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado" General hospital during November 1, 2002 to February 28, 2006. It was aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of the findings obtained with the reduction of the fracture, fixation and dental occlusion. Findings were analyzed showing a higher incidence in 25 -34 year-old subjects, having the dislocated fractures and the dental factor a higher incidence. In 100% of cases it was observed an anatomic reduction and a proper fixation as well as a good occlusion when the conservative procedure was done. Key words: MANDIBULAR FRACTURES/Surgery/Therap

Comportamiento de la queilitis actínica en 30 pacientes. Behavior of actinic cheilitis in 30 patients

Se realizó un estudio prospectivo de 30 pacientes en el Hospital General Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado" de Pinar del Río en los años 1999 y 2000, cuyo diagnóstico presuntivo era queilitis actínica con predominio en hombres blancos de mediana edad de procedencia rural que trabajan en el campo. El cuadro clínico más frecuente fue ardor, quemazón, eritemas, grietas, sangramientos y ulceraciones. Se realizaron estudios microbiológicos cuyos gérmenes resultantes en los cultivos positivos fueron cándida albicans y estafilococos coagulasa. El tratamiento impuesto fue médico quirúrgico. Se realizó biopsia excisional en 12 pacientes corroborándose el diagnóstico de queilitis en 11 y uno resultó ser un carcinoma escamoso. DeCS: QUEILITIS/ diagnóstico. ABSTRACT A prospective study in 30 patients was carried out between 1999-2000 at Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Hospital, Pinar del Río. The presumptive diagnosis was actinic cheilitis prevailing in middle age white men that work as farmers. The most frequent clinical findings were burning, erythemas, chaps, bleeding and ulceration. Microbiological studies showed positives cultures resulting in Candida albicans and Staphylococcus coagulase. Surgical management was the elected treatment. The excisional biopsy was performed in 12 patients, being proved the cheilitis diagnosis in 11 patients and squamous cell carcinoma in 1 patient. DeCS: CHEILITIS/diagnosi

Multicentre, randomised, single-blind, parallel group trial to compare the effectiveness of a Holter for Parkinson's symptoms against other clinical monitoring methods: study protocol

Introduction In recent years, multiple studies have aimed to develop and validate portable technological devices capable of monitoring the motor complications of Parkinson's disease patients (Parkinson's Holter). The effectiveness of these monitoring devices for improving clinical control is not known. Methods and analysis This is a single-blind, cluster-randomised controlled clinical trial. Neurologists from Spanish health centres will be randomly assigned to one of three study arms (1:1:1): (a) therapeutic adjustment using information from a Parkinson?s Holter that will be worn by their patients for 7 days, (b) therapeutic adjustment using information from a diary of motor fluctuations that will be completed by their patients for 7 days and (c) therapeutic adjustment using clinical information collected during consultation. It is expected that 162 consecutive patients will be included over a period of 6 months. The primary outcome is the efficiency of the Parkinson?s Holter compared with traditional clinical practice in terms of Off time reduction with respect to the baseline (recorded through a diary of motor fluctuations, which will be completed by all patients). As secondary outcomes, changes in variables related to other motor complications (dyskinesia and freezing of gait), quality of life, autonomy in activities of daily living, adherence to the monitoring system and number of doctor?patient contacts will be analysed. The noninferiority of the Parkinson's Holter against the diary of motor fluctuations in terms of Off time reduction will be studied as the exploratory objective. Ethics and dissemination approval for this study has been obtained from the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge Ethics Committee. The results of this study will inform the practical utility of the objective information provided by a Parkinson's Holter and, therefore, the convenience of adopting this technology in clinical practice and in future clinical trials. We expect public dissemination of the results in 2022.Funding This work is supported by AbbVie S.L.U, the Instituto de Salud Carlos III [DTS17/00195] and the European Fund for Regional Development, 'A way to make Europe'

Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world

Objectives: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the care of many non-COVID-19 illnesses. Reductions in diagnostic cardiovascular testing around the world have led to concerns over the implications of reduced testing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data were submitted to the INCAPS-COVID (International Atomic Energy Agency Non-Invasive Cardiology Protocols Study of COVID-19), a multinational registry comprising 909 institutions in 108 countries (including 155 facilities in 40 U.S. states), assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of diagnostic cardiovascular procedures. Data were obtained for April 2020 and compared with volumes of baseline procedures from March 2019. We compared laboratory characteristics, practices, and procedure volumes between U.S. and non-U.S. facilities and between U.S. geographic regions and identified factors associated with volume reduction in the United States. Results: Reductions in the volumes of procedures in the United States were similar to those in non-U.S. facilities (68% vs. 63%, respectively; p = 0.237), although U.S. facilities reported greater reductions in invasive coronary angiography (69% vs. 53%, respectively; p < 0.001). Significantly more U.S. facilities reported increased use of telehealth and patient screening measures than non-U.S. facilities, such as temperature checks, symptom screenings, and COVID-19 testing. Reductions in volumes of procedures differed between U.S. regions, with larger declines observed in the Northeast (76%) and Midwest (74%) than in the South (62%) and West (44%). Prevalence of COVID-19, staff redeployments, outpatient centers, and urban centers were associated with greater reductions in volume in U.S. facilities in a multivariable analysis. Conclusions: We observed marked reductions in U.S. cardiovascular testing in the early phase of the pandemic and significant variability between U.S. regions. The association between reductions of volumes and COVID-19 prevalence in the United States highlighted the need for proactive efforts to maintain access to cardiovascular testing in areas most affected by outbreaks of COVID-19 infection

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

The current consensus is that drought has developed in the Sahel during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of remote effects of oceanic anomalies amplified by local land–atmosphere interactions. This paper focuses on the impacts of oceanic anomalies upon West African climate and specifically aims to identify those from SST anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Oceans during spring and summer seasons, when they were significant. Idealized sensitivity experiments are performed with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). The prescribed SST patterns used in the AGCMs are based on the leading mode of covariability between SST anomalies over the Pacific/Indian Oceans and summer rainfall over West Africa. The results show that such oceanic anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Ocean lead to a northward shift of an anomalous dry belt from the Gulf of Guinea to the Sahel as the season advances. In the Sahel, the magnitude of rainfall anomalies is comparable to that obtained by other authors using SST anomalies confined to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. The mechanism connecting the Pacific/Indian SST anomalies with West African rainfall has a strong seasonal cycle. In spring (May and June), anomalous subsidence develops over both the Maritime Continent and the equatorial Atlantic in response to the enhanced equatorial heating. Precipitation increases over continental West Africa in association with stronger zonal convergence of moisture. In addition, precipitation decreases over the Gulf of Guinea. During the monsoon peak (July and August), the SST anomalies move westward over the equatorial Pacific and the two regions where subsidence occurred earlier in the seasons merge over West Africa. The monsoon weakens and rainfall decreases over the Sahel, especially in August.Peer reviewe

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI