Activation of Irrigants in Root Canals with Open Apices: A Narrative Review.

Performing endodontic treatment on a tooth with an immature apex can be challenging due to the risk of irrigant extrusion beyond the apex. This narrative review investigates the over-apex extrusion of activated irrigants in teeth with open and immature apices and aims to provide crucial insights for practice and research. Two hundred fifty-two results were found from the electronic search.

Customized 3D-Printed Mesh, Membrane, Bone Substitute, and Dental Implant Applied to Guided Bone Regeneration in Oral Implantology: A Narrative Review.

The new frontiers of computer-based surgery, technology, and material advances, have allowed for customized 3D printed manufacturing to become widespread in guided bone regeneration (GBR) in oral implantology. The shape, structural, mechanical, and biological manufacturing characteristics achieved through 3D printing technologies allow for the customization of implant-prosthetic rehabilitations and GBR procedures according to patient-specific needs, reducing complications and surgery time. Therefore, the present narrative review aims to elucidate the 3D-printing digital radiographic process, materials, indications, 3D printed manufacturing-controlled characteristics, histological findings, complications, patient-reported outcomes, and short- and long-term clinical considerations of customized 3D printed mesh, membranes, bone substitutes, and dental implants applied to GBR in oral implantology.

Quality of life of critical care nurses and impact on anxiety, depression, stress, burnout and sleep quality: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To investigate how anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and sleep quality impact on Quality of life of critical care nurses.

Background: Several studies reported that critical care nurses are exposed to a high risk of anxiety, depression, burnout, stress, and sleep quality, but we do not know the impact of critical care nurses.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Quality of life, Stress, and Burnout of Italian nurses during the outbreak of COVID-19: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic was a whispered problem for nurses, causing feelings of anxiety, stress, and burnout. Many studies investigated the pandemic's negative effects on nurses, but the relationship between burnout and the quality of life (QoL) in Italian nurses was lacking.

Aim: To describe Italian nurses quality of life and stress during the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Impact of a Training Intervention on Detection of Patient-Ventilator Asynchronies in Nursing Students.

Background And Aim: Patient-ventilator asynchronies (PVA) are associated to negative outcomes for patients: increased respiratory work, mechanical ventilation time and ICU length of stay, and mortality. Some studies described the positive impact of a training intervention on the knowledge and attitudes of nurses in detecting PVA. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a training intervention focused on detection of PVA.

Factors Associated With Variation in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Care Delivery.

Objective: Patients with pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE) and mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) receive only a fraction of recommended care. Using published quality indicators and guidelines, we developed a 13-item pediatric lupus care index (p-LuCI) to quantify the proportion of recommended clinical evaluations and comorbidity prevention interventions completed and the timeliness of follow-up. Our objective was to assess baseline index performance and identify sources of p-LuCI variation.

[Emergency nurses and workplace violence: a cross-sectional study in Campania, South Italy].

Aim: To determine the characteristics of workplace violence towards emergency nurses in Campania, South Italy.

Introduction: In Italy, workplace violence is a severe and widespread problem. A national survey describes that, working in South Italy significantly increases the probability of being exposed.

C4 -consumers in southern Europe: the case of Friuli V.G. (NE-Italy) during early and central Middle Ages.

Isotope variations were studied in necropolises of the early (6th to 7th century CE) and central (10th to 11th century CE) medieval period located in Fruili-Venezia Giulia (Northeastern Italy). The two periods each shortly followed two great barbarian invasions that changed the politics and economy of Italy: the arrivals of Langobards in 578 CE and the Hungarian incursions from the end of the 9th to the first half of the 10th century. These events had a tragic effect on the economy of Friuli-Venezia Giulia: severe depopulation and the partial abandonment of the countryside with fall of agricultural production.

Smoking cessation and the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia.

Background: Smoking increases the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia, yet it is unknown if smoking cessation changes this risk. We sought to determine if smoking cessation and the duration of abstinence from tobacco reduce the risk of pneumonia hospitalization.

Methods: We performed secondary analysis of data collected from male United States Veterans participating in a randomized trial.

Adherence to long-acting inhaled therapies among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Background: Long-acting inhaled medications are an important component of the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet few studies have examined the determinants of medication adherence among this patient population.

Objective: We sought to identify factors associated with adherence to long-acting beta-agonists (LABA) and inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) among patients with COPD.

Methods: We performed secondary analysis of baseline data collected in a randomized trial of 376 Veterans with spirometrically confirmed COPD.

Intensive care unit outcomes among patients with lung cancer in the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results-medicare registry.

Purpose: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Intensive care unit (ICU) use among patients with cancer is increasing, but data regarding ICU outcomes for patients with lung cancer are limited.

Patients And Methods: We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) -Medicare registry (1992 to 2007) to conduct a retrospective cohort study of patients with lung cancer who were admitted to an ICU for reasons other than surgical resection of their tumor.

Obesity and COPD: associated symptoms, health-related quality of life, and medication use.

Background: There is little data about the combined effects of COPD and obesity. We compared dyspnea, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), exacerbations, and inhaled medication use among patients who are overweight and obese to those of normal weight with COPD.

Methods: We performed secondary data analysis on 364 Veterans with COPD.

Patient-clinician communication: associations with important health outcomes among veterans with COPD.

Background: High quality patient-clinician communication is widely advocated, but little is known about which health outcomes are associated with communication for patients with COPD.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional study of 342 veterans enrolled in a randomized controlled trial, we evaluated the association of communication, measured with the quality of communication (QOC) instrument, with subject-reported quality of clinician care, breathing problem confidence, and general self-rated health. We measured these associations using general estimating equations and adjusted odds ratios (OR) of patient-reported outcomes associated with one-point changes in QOC scores.

Long-term survival after hospitalization for community-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia.

Background: Elderly patients surviving community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) have subsequent increased mortality. However, little is known regarding long-term survival in younger adults or those with healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP).

Objectives: To identify factors associated with mortality and compare long-term survival in patients hospitalized with HCAP to that of patients with CAP.

More information, more choice: an Italian database for oncology patients.

Background: In recent years there has been a proliferation of cancer information available for patients in the Italian language. However, quantity without validation and organization is by no means synonymous with providing good information and a good service. Furthermore, the lack of coordination and cooperation between the various information-providing initiatives results in uncontrolled waste.

E-oncology and health portals: instructions and standards for the evaluation, production organisation and use.

In 2002 the Italian Ministry of Health promoted the institution of a network and a web portal, E-oncology (2), for the seven NHS research institutions specialising in oncology (Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-IRCCS). One of the aims was to gather and provide information on tumoral pathologies to operators and the public. For an optimum organisation of a health web site it is necessary to comply with the standards internationally used.

Long-term treatment with 'Duovent' in elderly patients affected by chronic obstructive lung disease.

Twelve patients, aged over 60 years and suffering from chronic obstructive lung disease, were treated for 12 weeks with Duovent (fenoterol + ipratropium bromide). The clinical check-ups and indices of bronchial obstruction (FEV1, VC, RV, sGaw) were performed every 14 days. Improvement in symptoms corresponded to a significant improvement in the functional parameters.

[Treatment of chronic respiratory insufficiency of pulmonary origin. Clinical considerations].

The key-points of the physiopathological treatment of chronic pneumogenous respiratory insufficiency are: correction of distribution defects, suitable local adjustment of the ventilation: perfusion ratio, and correction of obstacles to alveolocapillary diffusion. Many drugs can be used to obtain these results; bronchodilators, vasoactive drugs, cortisones, cardiokinetics, antibiotics, analeptics. Reference is also made to oxygen therapy, depletion management (bloodletting and-or diuretics, and their possible mechanisms.