Clinical features and predictors of delayed neurological syndrome in carbon monoxide poisoning: the AMICO study.

Objectives: To identify predictors for developing delayed neurological syndrome (DNS) after an initial episode of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in the interest of detecting patients most likely to develop DNS so that they can be followed.

Material And Methods: Retrospective review of cases of CO poisoning treated in the past 10 years in the emergency departments of 4 hospitals in the AMICO study (Spanish acronym for the multicenter analysis of CO poisoning). We analyzed demographic characteristics of the patients and the clinical characteristics of the initial episode.

[Student stress in clinical practice for nurses].

Stress is an adaptive phenomenon of human beings which, to a high degree, contributes to their survival, to an adequate output in their activities, and to an effective performance in many phases of life. But all of us know and have experienced the disagreeable aspects of stress at least once. During their academic lives, nursing students who fulfill their clinical practice are exposed to suffer symptoms specific to nursing in the field of stress.