[Emotional identification and management disorders among benzodiazepine dependent patients as a factor leading towards interpersonal relations problems].

Background: The aim was to examine an ability to identify and manage the emotions defined as Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ) among benzodiazepine-dependent patients.

Method: 32 benzodiazepine-dependent patients had been chosen to participate in the study. They were examined by the following EQ measurement surveys: INTE, SIE-T.

[Emotional regulations among benzodiazepines dependent patients--preliminary results].

Background: The aim was to examine emotional states among benzodiazepine dependent patients who have been recently successfully detoxified and their coping strategies.

Method: 32 patients dependent from benzodiazepines had been chosen to participate in the study and they were examined with State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), The UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL).

Results: Detoxified benzodiazepine-dependent patients experience symptoms such as: high levels of anxiety (both state and trait), tense arousal, unpleasant mood and low body energy level.

[Assessment of socio-demographic factors in alcohol-addicted patients recurrently treated in a detoxification unit].

The aim of the presented study was the assessment some socio-demographic factors of alcohol dependent patients more times hospitalized in Department of Toxicology in Kraków in the years 1999-2004. The repeatedly hospitalization of 334 patients (298 men and 36 women), aged from 17 to 71 years (mean 45.1 years) due the alcohol problem on the basis of clinic documentation were established.

[Assessment of legal awareness regarding illicit drug use among Kraków university students].

Social survey is a very important source of information concerned with planing the preventive strategy and protecting against problems relevant to the use of psychoactive substances. The survey covered a group of 211 first-year students from five colleges in Kraków. The students showed weak awareness of law.

Drug free universities--trends in illicit drugs use among Kraków university students.

Social survey by questioning people is a significant source of information, valuable for planning and developing of prophylactic strategies. An illicit drugs use among a first-year students of Kraków's universities and factors determining the usage were analysed. The research by completing the questionnaire designed by National Bureau for Drug Prevention, Poland was performed in 725 a first-year students of six Kraków's universities.

[Contradiction model to prevent addictions in university students from Kraków].

Students' community is a peculiar environment where the problems of psychoactive substance using has been raised for many years, whereas the real scale and extent of the phenomenon has not been appreciated enough so far. Results of the preliminary research carried on in 2000 and 2004 indicate a considerable degree of the popularity both of alcohol and drugs among students. Therefore both the continuation and widening of the activity of Polish Anti Drug Action "University Free from Abuse" is necessary.

Abdominal complications after cardiac surgery in cardiopulmonary bypass.

Unlabelled: Gastrointestinal problems are an infrequent but serious consequence of cardiac surgery that includes cardiopulmonary bypass. Predictors of these complications are not well developed, and the role of fundamental variables remains controversial. Between July 1998 and August 2002, 1,552 patients (1,106 male and 446 female), mean age 56 years, underwent heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

Myocardial revascularization for acute myocardial infarction.

Unlabelled: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality compared with CABG in non-AMI patients. We describe the surgical results of these high-risk patients. Sixteen patients (nine male and seven female) underwent CABG after recent onset of acute myocardial infarction.

Successful treatment of giant right coronary artery aneurysm mimicking right atrium thrombus--a case report.

Coronary artery aneurysms are very rare abnormalities in patients undergoing coronary angiography. Clinical manifestation is usually that of coronary artery disease, and acute myocardial infarction. We present the case of a patient admitted to the Department of Cardiac Surgery due to coronary artery disease and the presence of thrombus in right atrium of the heart diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography.

[Results of the psychological examination of patients--alcohol-addicted drivers, treated in a detoxification unit].

There are many studies on problems related to alcohol abuse in many aspects from many countries. As a preventive strategy a few years duration programs for numerous populations are being conducted for tightening of social interrelation, to prevent juvenile drinking, to avoid drinking and driving etc. USA study on drinking and driving people indicate on different psychiatric disorders and needs for deeper psychiatric insight.