Smart Coating Embedded with pH-Responsive Nanocapsules Containing a Corrosion Inhibiting Agent.

Triethanolamine (TEA), an amine-based corrosion inhibitor, was encapsulated and then embedded into an epoxy coating to provide long-term corrosion protection of aluminum alloy 3003. TEA was encapsulated by means of free-radical polymerization, yielding an average particle size of 450 nm. An applied epoxy coating containing 10 wt % of the nanocapsules successfully protected an artificially defective area for a long period due to TEA adsorption, which resulted in the formation of an inhibiting layer.

[Intimate partner violence is not identified as a health problem by health care workers].

Objective: To determine attitudes, opinions and knowledge of domestic violence among medical and nursing staff.

Methods: We performed a descriptive study of prevalence using an ad hoc questionnaire. A random sample of 321 health professionals were asked about their opinions and knowledge of domestic violence and its relationship with health.

[Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation program for high school students (PROCES). Results from the pilot program].

Background And Objective: The PROCES (Programa de Reanimació Cardiopulmonar Orientat a Centres d'Ensenyament Secundari) program is aimed at teaching basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (b-CPR) to teenagers within high school. Our aim was to analyze the results obtained from the pilot program.

Subjects And Method: PROCES was splitted in 7 sessions: 5 of them (5 hours) were taught by teachers at high school and 2 of them (4 hours, including how to perform b-CPR) were taught by emergency physicians.

Sedation for cardioversion in the emergency department: analysis of effectiveness in four protocols.

Study Objective: We compare effectiveness, adverse effects, and recovery times of propofol, etomidate, and midazolam (with and without flumazenil) for cardioversion in the emergency department (ED).

Methods: Thirty-two hemodynamically stable adult patients undergoing cardioversion in the ED were randomly assigned to receive etomidate (n=9), propofol (n=9), midazolam (n=8), or midazolam followed by flumazenil (n=6). For all patients, we measured induction time, awakening time, total recuperation time, global time, and adverse effects.

[Emergency department overcrowding: quantification of associated factors].

Background And Objective: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been increasing over the last years. The aims are to define ED overcrowding, and to determine and quantify which factors explain it.

Patients And Method: For 3 consecutive weeks throughout 3 years (2000-2002), we recorded every 3-hour period, the arrivals, the occupancy rate (OR) of patients in ED, in first aid area (FAA), and in observation area (OA) according to the reason for their stay.