Development of a Professional Practice Nursing Model for a University Nursing School and Teaching Hospital: A nursing methodology research.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the process of developing a Professional Practice Model by a Nursing School and Nursing Department of University Hospital.

Design And Method (s): This is a descriptive nursing methodology research, developed along three stages: preliminary, empirical and validation. The empirical phase used qualitative and quantitative methodology.

Development, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based practice model in a new hospital in Chile.

Aims: To describe an implementation programme for an evidence-based practice (EBP) model in a new Chilean hospital and to analyse the programme evaluation results.

Background: Evidence-based practice is key to professional nursing for improving health care safety and quality.

Methods: First, a literature review was performed to develop an institutional EBP model.

Self as an Aesthetic Effect.

Mainstream psychology has assumed a notion of the self that seems to rest on a substantialist notion of the psyche that became predominant despite important critical theories about the self. Although cultural psychology has recognized the diverse, dialogical, historical, narrative, and performative nature of self, as opposed to the idea of self as entity, it is not clear how it accounts for the phenomenological experience of self as a unified image. In this paper, we offer a theoretical contribution to developing the implications of a genetic approach to self in cultural psychology, taking into account an otherwise overlooked dimension: art and aesthetics.

[Evaluation of the educational environment in medical specialty programs].

Background: The Postgraduate Hospital Education Environment Measure (PHEEM) questionnaire, is a valid and reliable instrument to measure the educational environment (EE) in postgraduate medical education.

Aim: To evaluate the EE perceived by the residents of a postgraduate training program using the PHEEM.

Material And Methods: The PHEEM was applied in 2010-2011 in 35 specialty programs.

[Feasibility of implementing tele-psychiatry in Chile].

The objective of this review was to search the literature on the use of telemedicine in mental health and evaluate if it can play a role in Chile. A systematic, qualitative review was carried out to compile systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and clinical controlled trials (CCT) that were in English or Spanish and that applied information technologies for the treatment of psychiatric diseases. Excluded from the review were articles without summaries or articles that included only the trial design, without results.

Pharmacological treatment of obstructive sleep apnea with a combination of pseudoephedrine and domperidone.

Objectives: To determine the effect of the drug combination domperidone and pseudoephedrine on nocturnal oximetry measurements and daytime sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Methods: We recruited patients with severe snoring and apneic episodes willing to undergo repeated nocturnal oximetry testing. Following baseline clinical history, Epworth Sleepiness Scale administration, and home overnight nocturnal oximetry, patients were started on weight-adjusted doses of domperidone and pseudoephedrine.

Treatment of severe snoring with a combination of pseudoephedrine sulfate and domperidone.

Study Objectives: Pharmacologic treatment of severe snoring has not been considered to be of great value. The objective of this study was to determine whether the combination of a nasal decongestant and a prokinetic drug would decrease or eliminate severe snoring.

Methods: Thirty healthy individuals whose sleeping partners reported that the patients had severe nightly snoring entered an open-label trial of 60 mg of pseudoephedrine and 10 mg of domperidone at bedtime for 30 days.

Antiphospholipid antibodies in Chilean patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) are a heterogeneous family of antibodies found in autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases, and other situations. The presence of different aPLs has been associated with various clinical manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of aPLs in a group of 90 Chilean patients with systemic lupus erytematosus (SLE) and 90 healthy controls.

Evaluation of three larval instars of the midge Chironomus petiolatus as bioassay tools using a computationally intensive statistical algorithm.

Sensitivity to toxicants is a major criterion for selecting organisms for bioassay testing. If a sensitive species is also abundant and occupies a role as prey for many other species within a community, then the species become a valuable tool in environmental monitoring. These features apply to larval midge Chironomus petiolatus in freshwater environments of central Chile.

Medical and surgical treatment of nonallergic asthma associated with gastroesophageal reflux.

Patients presenting to a chest clinic because of adult-onset wheezing with no history of allergy had a 90 percent prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux, even though reflux symptoms were mild or absent. Ninety patients were randomly assigned to receive cimetidine or an identical placebo or to undergo antireflux surgery. During a six-month period, all groups improved clinically; the cimetidine and surgical groups improved more than the placebo group.

Esophageal reflux--an unrecognized cause of recurrent obstructive bronchitis in children.

Forty-three children with recurrent obstructive bronchitis but without prominent gastrointestinal symptoms were studied for esophageal reflux roentgenographically and by manometry. Roentgenographic evidence for reflux was shown in 26; these patients had a mean lower esophageal sphincter pressure of 6.3 mm Hg as compared to a mean LES pressure of 21.