Nursing Care Time for Newborns during Hospitalization in a Mixed Hospital Ward with an Obstetrics Department.

Purpose: This study aimed to better understand the nursing care time spent with healthy term newborns from birth to discharge, giving insight into neonatal nursing staff management.

Method: In total, 30 healthy term newborns in a mixed hospital ward with an Obstetrics Department participated in this study. To measure care time, they had a wireless beacon attached to their cots.

The repeating dislodgement of an Amplatzer Septal Occluder device during recovery from general anesthesia in an adult undergoing transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect : a case report.

Transcatheter closure with an Amplatzer Septal Occluder (ASO) has become the standard treatment for secundum atrial septal defect (ASD). However, this procedure is associated with complications, such as device dislodgement. A 52-year-old woman was admitted with exertional dyspnea.

[Lower thoracic epidural analgesia improves postoperative analgesia following vaginal total hysterectomy].

Background: In our hospital, lumbar epidural analgesia had been used for postoperative analgesia following vaginal total hysterectomy (VTH). But some patients experienced severe abdominal pain or numbness of the legs. Therefore we planned a randomized prospective study to compare lower thoracic epidural analgesia and lumbar epidural analgesia following VTH.

[Three cases of latex allergy complicated with anaphylaxis during cesarean section].

Unlabelled: We experienced three cases of latex anaphylaxis during cesarean section in one year.

Case: 1 A 26-year-old woman underwent emergency cesarean section. Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia was performed and drip infusion of cefazolin sodium was started before operation.

[Transient paraplegia due to epidural hematoma after catheter withdrawal].

A 58-year-old man with hypertension underwent laparoscopic distal gastrectomy under general and epidural anesthesia. Preoperative laboratory date revealed a normal platelet count and normal coagulation profile. Epidural puncture was successfully performed at the T9-10 intervertebral space on the first attempt without bleeding.