Differences between men and women in dual-diagnosis treatment.

The authors reviewed the charts of all women and a randomly selected sample of men over a 6-month period on two addiction treatment units at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. The men were more likely to be admitted with schizophrenia and to have used substances of abuse other than alcohol, and the women were more likely to be admitted with affective disorders. Also, the women on the dual-diagnosis ward were more likely to be domiciled (i.

Perceived social support and treatment retention on an inpatient addiction treatment unit.

The authors measured perceived social support among patients and their families as a predictor of retention in an inpatient addiction rehabilitation program. After detoxification from all substances of abuse, 66 sequentially admitted inpatients gave demographic and diagnostic information and completed scales of perceived social support from the program and their own families. Scales were completed at 7, 14, and 21 days.

Successful outcome of idiopathic nonimmune hydrops fetalis treated by maternal digoxin.

Nonimmune hydrops fetalis (NIHF), occurring in 1 in 2,500-3,000 live births has a reported mortality rate of 50-98%. A similar mortality rate for intrauterine death of fetuses with NIHF probably exists. Many fetal pathological entities have been implicated as causing the condition, but to date, treatment has only been found for cases of fetal tachycardia complicated with hydrops.

Evaluation of combinations of procedures in cesarean section.

Objective: To evaluate a procedure for cesarean section, consisting of a number of surgical techniques adopted from various sources and further developed.

Methods: The principal elements of the cesarean section procedure followed were: the Joel-Cohen method for opening the abdomen, suturing the uterus in one layer, and non-closure of the visceral and parietal peritoneal layers. The postoperative recovery of women who underwent this procedure (JCl--group) was compared with that of women who had undergone a Pfannenstiel incision, in which the uterus is sutured in two layers, and both peritoneal layers sutured (Pf2++ group).

Delayed respiratory arrest in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia. Case report.

Background And Objectives: A case of delayed respiratory arrest in the combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSEA) is described. This event was likely due to morphine injected through the epidural catheter, unintentionally entering into the subarachnoid space through the hole in the dura that was made previously by the spinal needle in the needle-through-needle technique.

Methods: The CSEA is a popular new regional anesthesia that combines the benefits of the spinal and epidural injections.

Conservative treatment with successful outcome of a triplet pregnancy after the miscarriage of one fetus in the second trimester.

Due to the increased availability of infertility treatment, multiple pregnancies, with various resulting complications have become more common. A woman in the 19th week of a triplet pregnancy came to the hospital after the miscarriage of one of the fetuses at home. In keeping with our philosophy of minimal intervention in childbirth, we treated the woman conservatively.

[Anesthesia for cesarean section].

Of 684 parturients who underwent cesarean section between July 1985-August 1990, 371 (54.2%) were given epidural anesthesia; 50 (7.3%) required general anesthesia after a failed attempt at epidural anesthesia; and 5 (0.

[Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for vascular access in hemodialysis. Apropos of 53 operations].

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty as stenosis treatment in hemodialysis arterio venous fistulae. About 53 cases. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty was used 53 times to dilate 75 stenoses in 37 hemodialysed patients.