Energetics of Floor Gymnastics: Aerobic and Anaerobic Share in Male and Female Sub-elite Gymnasts.

Background: Artistic gymnastics is a popular Olympic discipline where female athletes compete in four and male athletes in six events with floor exercise having the longest competition duration in Women's and Men's artistic gymnastics (WAG, MAG). To date no valid information on the energetics of floor gymnastics is available although this may be important for specific conditioning programming. This study evaluated the metabolic profile of a simulated floor competition in sub-elite gymnasts.

[Underreporting of blood exposure incidents: a worrying situation among nursing students].

Accidental blood exposure incidents require immediate medical evaluation, permitting early treatment, if needed, for a possible infection and enable identification of the work accident in case of HIV infectivity status. A study wax conducted with nursing students in two different years of study in order to formalize the rate of underreporting of blood exposure incidents and to determine the reasons. The results highlight that, over a period of three years of training, 52 % of blood exposure incidents have not been declared as occupational accidents.