Exploring resilience among hospital workers: a Bayesian approach.

Background And Importance: Healthcare professionals face significant workloads, as their roles are among the most demanding and stressful. Resilience serves as a crucial factor in helping them cope with the challenges encountered in their work environment and effectively manage stress. Assessing the level of resilience among healthcare workers and identifying potential variations across different groups is essential for effective public health management, preventing burnout, and ultimately enhancing patient care.

Crucial and fragile: a multi-methods and multi-disciplinary study of cooperation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addressing global pandemics, robust cooperation across nations, institutions, and individuals is paramount. However, navigating the complexities of individual versus collective interests, diverse group objectives, and varying societal norms and cultures makes fostering such cooperation challenging. This research delves deep into the dynamics of interpersonal cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, using an integrative approach that combines qualitative and experimental methodologies.

Asking patients if they have any questions can help improve patient satisfaction with medical team communication in the emergency department.

Background: It is well known that patient satisfaction with medical communication in the emergency department (ED) improves patient experience. Investing in good communication practices is highly desirable in the emergency setting. In the literature, very few studies offer evidence of effective interventions to achieve this outcome.

Factors influencing patients' experience of communication with the medical team of the emergency department.

The Emergency Department (ED) setting often presents situations where the doctor-patient relationship is fundamental and may be challenging. Thus, it is important to use effective communication to improve outcomes. This study explores patients' experience of communication with the medical team aiming to discover whether there are some objective factors which may affect their perception.

Effect of Structured Briefing Prior to Patient Arrival on Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration in the Trauma Team.

Purpose: Treating a multiple trauma patient is multidisciplinary team work. The performance of the trauma team is crucial to treating the patients safely and effectively. The fundamentals of the performance are the quality of interprofessional collaboration and the communication inside the team and its efficacy for patients' safety and team's well being.

Psychological Impact of the Very Early Beginning of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Healthcare Workers: A Bayesian Study on the Italian and Swiss Perspectives.

Background: We investigated the COVID19-related psychological impact on healthcare workers in Italy and in Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland, three weeks after its outbreak. All professional groups of public hospitals in Italy and Switzerland were asked to complete a 38 questions online survey investigating demographic, marital and working status, presence of stress symptoms and need for psychological support.

Results: Within 38 h a total of 3,038 responses were collected.

Acute alcohol intoxication as a confounding factor for mild traumatic brain injury.

Background: Acute alcohol intoxication is universally considered a risk factor for traumatic brain injury (TBI), therefore an indication for head CT scan. There is no evidence in the literature for this attitude. Aim of this study is to assess the need for head CT scan in acutely alcohol-intoxicated subjects with mTBI and the role of Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score in this kind of patients.

Are Antiplatelet and Anticoagulants Drugs A Risk Factor for Bleeding in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury?

Objective: Facing mild traumatic brain injury, clinicians must decide whether to perform a computed tomography (CT) scan to detect a potential intracranial hemorrhage. Many useful guidelines have been developed for the general population, but there is no general consensus about the best practice to adopt when dealing with patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulation drugs. The relatively recent introduction of new anticoagulants and second-generation antiplatelet drugs poses new challenges in this field.

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients on Long-Term Anticoagulation Therapy: Do They Really Need Repeated Head CT Scan?

Background: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), defined as blunt trauma to the head resulting in witnessed loss of consciousness, definite amnesia, or witnessed disorientation with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 14 or 15 is a common occurrence in the emergency department. In mTBI, oral anticoagulation is known to be an important risk factor for hemorrhage. Clinical guidelines recommend baseline computed tomographic (CT) scan and observation for 24 hours plus a CT scan before discharge.

Single level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for cervical disc herniation in a professional soccer player.

A 29-year old midfielder playing professional soccer complains of neck and right shoulder pain without apparent cause. A cervical MR shows disc herniation between C4 and C5 compressing 5th nerve root. The patient undergoes surgical discectomy plus interbody fusion with autologous bone and plate fixation with unicortical screws.

Breast cancer surgery in an ambulatory setting.

Aim: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of outpatient surgery for early breast cancer in an Italian ambulatory setting and to assess its benefits.

Patients And Methods: A review of 88 women treated for breast cancer from an outpatient facility was undertaken from July 2003 to December 2006. The patients were selected for ambulatory surgery according to specific social, environmental, physical and oncological criteria.

Idiopathic sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis: a case report.

Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis is an uncommon but potentially lethal condition, which can lead to severe complications such as bowel obstruction, enterocutaneous fistualas and necrosis. The treatment is debated because of the high morbidity and mortality of the surgical approach. The aim of this study was to contribute to achieving a better approach to surgical treatment of sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis.