Factors associated with initiation of medical advanced cardiac life support after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Background: Termination of resuscitation rule permits to stop futile resuscitative efforts by paramedics. In a different setting, the decision to withhold resuscitation by emergency physician could be based on different factors. We aimed to identify the factors associated with the initiation of a medical ACLS in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.

[Modalities of care in anti HCV positive patients identified in General Medicine in the Alpes-Maritimes district].

Unlabelled: Little is known about the management of HCV infected patients after screening in general medicine. On May 2000, 75 General Practitioners (GP) from South Eastern France were involved in an HCV screening campaign. Fifteen per cent of 6321 patients seen during this period presented at least one of the following risk factors: blood transfusion before 1991, drug abuse, imprisonment.

[Screening and hepatitis C management survey in general medicine in the Alpes-Maritimes and east Var area].

Background: This study was performed to assess screening and management of hepatitis C by community-based practitioners in the Alpes Maritimes district in the South of France and to compare their practices with the recommendations issued by the consensus conferences in 1997 and 1999. This information was to be used to adapt continuing medical education to the needs of practitioners in the area.

Method: Two hundred and nineteen general practitioners who were members of eighteen continuing medical education associations accepted to complete a questionnaire containing eighteen closed questions.