Publications by authors named "Almudena Morales Sanchez"
(1) The increasing life expectancy brings an increase in geriatric syndromes, specifically frailty. The literature shows that exercise is a key to preventing, or even reversing, frailty in community-dwelling populations. The main objective is to demonstrate how an intervention based on multicomponent exercise produces an improvement in frailty and pre-frailty in a community-dwelling population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrehospital mSOFA Score for Quick Prediction of Life-Saving Interventions and Mortality in Trauma Patients: A Prospective, Multicenter, Ambulance-based, Cohort Study.
West J Emerg Med
September 2023
Prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) are the main gateway for trauma patients. Recent advances in point-of-care testing and the development of early warning scores have allowed EMS to improve patient classification. We aimed to identify patients presenting with major trauma involving life-saving interventions (LSI) using the modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (mSOFA) score in the prehospital scenario, and to compare these results with those of other trauma scores.
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- - The study investigated psychological distress among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Spanish out-of-hospital emergency medical services, focusing on those with or without prior use of psychotropic drugs or therapy.
- - A total of 1,636 HCWs participated, and one in three reported severe mental disorders due to the pandemic, with factors like age and work experience affecting levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.
- - HCWs with a history of using psychotropic medications or therapy exhibited greater emotional distress and lower self-efficacy, highlighting their vulnerability and the need for ongoing support and monitoring strategies.
Health professionals (HPs), especially those working in the front line, have been one of the groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study is to identify the best available scientific evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of out-of-hospital HPs in terms of stress, anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy. A living systematic review of the literature was designed, consulting the electronic online versions of the CINHAL, Cochrane Library, Cuiden, IBECS, JBI, LILACS, Medline PyscoDoc, PsycoINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science databases in November 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The paucity of long-term studies makes it difficult to evaluate the sustained abstinence over time of smokers who quit. The objective of the present study was to determine to what extent the results of tobacco cessation interventions are maintained after 5 years.
Patients And Methods: This was a longitudinal prospective study of 502 smokers.