Crisis in the health sector: Impact on nurses' working conditions.

Unlabelled: In a context of economic crisis and policies to reduce the public deficit, the budgets of the Catalan Health Institute (CHI) were cut by 15.33% between 2010 and 2014.

Objective: To assess the perceived impact on nurses' work conditions of measures to contain health spending.

[Cardiovascular risk factors in users with severe mental disorder].

Objective: To identify the prevalence of the cardiovascular risk (RCV) in users with a Severe Mental Disorder (SMD) attended in mental health service in ParcTaulí (Sabadell - Barcelona).

Method: This is an observational, descriptive and transversal study of the factors of cardiovascular risk in 789 users with SMD. The instrument used was the scale of assessment of the Registre Gironí del Cor, which estimates the risk of cardiovascular disease.

[The VAMP device. Benefits for the critical patient].

Taking blood samples by means of conventional intravascular devices requires throwing away an initial volume of mixed blood and serum which comprises between 24-26% of the volume of blood extracted from the patient admitted into an intensive care ward. At present time there exists a device with a reservoir, VAMP, which permits one to obtain blood samples without having to waste this initial volume. The working hypothesis poses that the use of the VAMP device decreases the risk of transfusion.