Postcholecystectomy syndrome (PCS) is a set of symptoms, particularly in the digestive field that do not disappear after surgical removal of the gallbladder, on the contrary, they worsen. Objectives: The objective of this paper is to highlight the biliary pathology of the PCS for cases hospitalized in surgical wards of a county clinical emergency hospital and the therapeutic ways of solving the...

Results Nineteen articles met the eligibility criteria for inclusion in the review; only two met high-quality criteria. Four relevant abstracts were retrieved from the international conference literature. Hospital-wide HAI prevalence varied between 2.5 and 14.8 per 100 patients; in surgical wards, the cumulative incidence ranged from 5.7 to 45.8 per 100 patients. Among specific types of infecti...

Blood tests are a seemingly basic investigation, but are often a vital part of directing patient management. Despite the importance of this everyday process, we indentified the potential for improvement of the current phlebotomy service in our hospital, as both junior doctors and phlebotomists reported a lack of communication and standardised practice across the wards. Resulting delays in obtai...

The Productive Ward series has effectively helped to standardise the storage of equipment in hospital ward treatment rooms; however, in our organisation equipment for venepunture and cannulation had been excluded. This resulted in clinicians having to navigate several unfamiliar environments while on-call and hence waste valuable time searching for basic equipment. We aimed to make it easier to...

BACKGROUND Patient safety has become a major concern throughout the world. It is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care, ensuring safer care is an enormous challenge, psychosocial variables influences behaviors of human. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a well-validated behavioral decision-making model that has been used to predict social and healt...

BACKGROUND The introduction of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) has greatly reduced training hours of surgical residents, which translates into 30% less surgical and clinical experience. Such a dramatic drop in attendance has serious implications such compromised quality of medical care. As the surgical department of the University of Heidelberg, our goal was to establish a model that...

The influence of pain on one's quality life, social connections, physical capacity, and mental health was significant. A nurse's or other care professional's lack information about evaluation treatment, worries opioid usage, abuse, diversion, misunderstandings the therapeutic dose analgesia can all contribute to inadequate relief. research aims evaluate nurses' practice in management postoperat...

Many patients present to general hospitals with alcohol-related problems, but most of them are not identified as such. This article summarises the evidence base for screening and brief interventions delivered by nurses in general hospital medical/surgical wards and A&E departments. It also suggests how screening and brief interventions can operate in these environments.

Methods Four centres in Spain and France enrolled in 3 intervention trials of MRSA control performed universal MRSA screening on admission to intensive care units (ICUs), surgical wards and rehabilitation units from August 2008 to March 2010. Demographic and comorbidity data were collected. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to identify risk factors for unknown M...