Caregivers with limited language proficiency and their satisfaction with paediatric emergency care related to the use of professional interpreters: a mixed methods study.

Objectives: Communication is a main challenge in migrant health and essential for patient safety. The aim of this study was to describe the satisfaction of caregivers with limited language proficiency (LLP) with care related to the use of interpreters and to explore underlying and interacting factors influencing satisfaction and self-advocacy.

Design: A mixed-methods study.

The use of intercultural interpreter services at a pediatric emergency department in Switzerland.

The aim of our study was to analyze the use of interpreter services and improve communication during health encounters with families with limited language proficiency (LLP) at the pediatric emergency department (ED) of the University Hospital of Bern.This study is a pre- and post-intervention study analyzing the use of interpreter services for LLP families. All families originating from a country with a native language other than German, English or French presenting to the ED were eligible to participate in the study.

Mindful attention training workshop for firefighters: Design and methodology of a pilot randomized clinical trial.

Mindfulness-based interventions have demonstrated efficacy with regard to diverse psychological symptoms across populations. Few studies have evaluated the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for firefighters. This pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) is designed to determine the preliminary efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of a novel mindfulness-based workshop (entitled "Healthy Action Zone Mindful Attention Training" [HAZMAT]) developed for firefighters (Clinical Trials Identifier: NCT04909216).

Associations between Lower-Order Anxiety Sensitivity Facets and PTSD Symptomatology among Trauma-Exposed Firefighters.

Firefighters are chronically exposed to potentially traumatic events, augmenting their risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study aimed to examine the incremental associations of lower-order dimensions of anxiety sensitivity (AS), examined concurrently, and PTSD symptom severity among a sample of trauma-exposed firefighters. We hypothesized that AS physical and cognitive concerns would be strongly associated with all PTSD symptom clusters and overall symptom severity, after controlling for theoretically relevant covariates (trauma load; years in fire service; alcohol use severity; depressive symptom severity).

Asylum-Seeking Children with Medical Complexity and Rare Diseases in a Tertiary Hospital in Switzerland.

The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of asylum-seeking children with medical complexity visiting a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland, detailing their underlying medical conditions and management. Asylum-seeking patients with frequent visits between January 2016 and December 2017 were identified using administrative and electronic health records. Of 462 patients, 19 (4%) fulfilled the inclusion criteria with 811 (45%) visits.

Reasons for admission in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in a paediatric tertiary care centre.

Background: In the last decade an increasing number of asylum-seeking children arrived in Europe and local healthcare systems have been challenged to adapt to their health needs. The aim of this study was to compare the spectrum of disease and management of asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking children requiring hospital admission.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study including health data from recently arrived asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking children admitted between January 2016 and December 2017.

Measurement and Structural Invariance of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Hispanic and Caucasian Firefighters: A Bias-Corrected Bootstrap Confidence Intervals Approach.

This study compared across Hispanic and Caucasian firefighters the relative fit of the four-factor Emotional Numbing and Dysphoria posttraumatic stress disorder models to the more recently proposed Dysphoric Arousal five-factor model. As hypothesized, the Dysphoric Arousal five-factor model emerged as the best fitting model within each ethnic group and it also showed measurement invariance between groups (configural invariance). Results of multigroup confirmatory factor analyses and a bias-corrected bootstrap confidence intervals analytic approach indicated that the five factor model also demonstrated invariance in factor loadings (metric invariance) and item-level intercepts (scalar invariance) across the two ethnic groups.

investigations of a novel wound dressing concept based on biodegradable polyurethane.

Non-healing and partially healing wounds are an important problem not only for the patient but also for the public health care system. Current treatment solutions are far from optimal regarding the chosen material properties as well as price and source. Biodegradable polyurethane (PUR) scaffolds have shown great promise for tissue engineering approaches, but accomplishment of the goal of scaffold degradation and new tissue formation developing in parallel has not been observed so far in skin wound repair.

Validity of Borg Ratings of Perceived Exertion During Active Video Game Play.

During physically interactive video game play (e.g., Nintendo Wii), users are exposed to potential distracters (e.

Dose dependency of canthaxanthin crystals in monkey retina and spatial distribution of its metabolites.

Purpose: To establish the threshold level of canthaxanthin crystals in the retina of cynomolgus monkeys. To correlate the spatial distribution of all-trans canthaxanthin and its metabolites with the grade of crystals.

Methods: Monkeys were orally administered 0, 0.

Occurrence of birefringent retinal inclusions in cynomolgus monkeys after high doses of canthaxanthin.

Purpose: To reproduce and investigate in a primate animal model the phenomenon of the red carotenoid canthaxanthin (beta, beta-carotene-4'4'-dione) to induce crystal-like retinal deposits as they have been observed in the ocular fundus of humans after high canthaxanthin intake (i.e., more than 30 mg/day).

Retardation of spermiation following short-term treatment of rats with theobromine.

Groups of 4-6 Fü-albino rats were examined 24 h after 3 daily doses of 500 mg/kg bw of theobromine administered orally by gavage as well as 1, 2, 4, 6, and 10 weeks after 5 daily doses. Controls received the standard solvent vehicle (SSV) only. A variety of parameters were assessed including body and organ weights, serum clinical chemistry, hematological parameters, epididymal sperm motility and LDH-X fraction in seminal plasma, serum gonadotropins and testosterone, and the morphology of various organs.

Peptides isolated from human liver with specific inhibitory effects on reassociation/reactivation of in vitro dissociated lactic dehydrogenase (LDH-M4 and -H4) isozymes.

Two different peptides have been purified from human liver, similar to those previously reported (Schoenenberger, G.A., and Wacker, W.

[Long-term observations on different methods of nephropexy].

In 29 patients with nephroptosis two different methods of nephropexy were compared; nephropexy using sutures passing through the parenchyma (n = 16) and nephropexy using tissue adhesives (n = 13). The first group was mobilized 3.5 days after operation, whereas the second group was mobilized one day after operation.

Diagnostic relevance of urinary lactate dehydrogenase determination in nephroptosis and for the indication to nephropexy.

Previously reported experiments with animals suggested that reduced renal arterial flow might be the actual cause for the pathogenicity of nephroptosis. Clinical studies now give evidence that measurements of urinary LDH may be a criterion equal to the isotope nephrogram (ING) in considering this disease. Patients with a "mobile" kidney verified by i.

Experimental approach to the correlation of hemodynamic changes with increases in urinary lactate dehydrogenase as a new parameter reflecting serious renal tissue damages.

From previous investigations with nephroptotic patients increased urinary LDH was assumed to be a reliable marker indicating a renal tissue defect due to the organs descent in erect position. Animal experiments now allowed correlation of this enzymatic activity with controlled changes of anatomical and physiological parameters. Changes of the renal hemodynamics or urinary flow induced in acute experiments in dogs simulated kidney displacement in nephroptotic patients.