[Preoperative mood disorders in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: risk factors and postoperative morbidity in the intensive care unit].

Introduction And Objectives: To estimate the preoperative levels of anxiety and depression in patients awaiting heart surgery and to identify the risk factors associated with the development of these mood disorders. To evaluate the relationship between preoperative anxiety and depression and postoperative morbidity.

Methods: Prospective longitudinal study in a sample of 100 patients undergoing heart surgery.

[Fever in children; a guide to treatment].

An exaggerated fear exists on behalf of parents of young children, aged 0 to 3, and sanitary professionals regarding fever and its complications; this fear is the origin of many mistaken beliefs and attitudes on how to handle and treat fever. For this reason, a Guide to Treatment has been developed by means of systematic reviews, from other clinical practice guides, and original documents over the past ten years related to handling young children who have fever. This Guide exclusively summarizes those nursing practices in handling young children having fever which are contemplated in scientific literature and which provide sufficient rigor to be taken into consideration in our nursing work.

[Female stress urinary incontinence during pregnancy. A bibliographical review].

The authors have prepared a brief bibliographical review on female stress urinary incontinence during pregnancy. The high degree of incidence this disorder has and the introduction of the latest sanitary techniques combine to make necessary a profound review which aids medical professionals to realize the magnitude of this problem, as well as to diagnose and treat it effectively. Female stress urinary incontinence during pregnancy is an involuntary urine loss associated to the physical effort which an increase in abdominal pressure provokes.

[Intracranial pressure response during secretion aspiration after administration of a muscle relaxant].

Unlabelled: Aspiration of secretions is a usual nursing technique in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation that may be the cause of increased Intracranial Pressure (ICP).

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the repercussion of a muscle relaxant on ICP with secretion aspiration.

Method: Clinical trial using the same patient as case and control, performing two endotracheal aspirations in each patients, on of them after administration of a muscle relaxant (Cis-Atracurium) and another no.