Publications by authors named "N Catania"
Immigrants Psychopathology: Emerging Phenomena and Adaptation of Mental Health Care Setting by Native Language.
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health
October 2018
Article Synopsis
- Immigrants often face higher rates of mental disorders and lower access to mental health services compared to native populations.
- Recent studies in Europe highlight the need for mental health care to be adapted to address language barriers, emphasizing the importance of providing services in immigrants' mother tongues.
- Effective solutions include cross-cultural training for clinicians and collaboration with interpreters, but implementation of these strategies remains limited, indicating a need for increased attention and intervention in immigrant mental health.
Sevoflurane (SEV), a commonly used anesthetic agent for invasive surgery, is directly eliminated via exhaled breath and indirectly by metabolic conversion to inorganic fluoride and hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP), which is also eliminated in the breath. We studied the post-operative elimination of SEV and HFIP of six patients that had undergone a variety of surgeries lasting between 2.5 to 8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBlood loss due to liposuction is one of the main problems in this kind of surgery, blood volume being up to 30%-35% of the whole liposucked volume. We studied the possible lower impact of ultrasound lipolysis in order to obviate this non negligible problem. For this purpose we treated 10 patients, females, aged between 28 and 55, such obese to overweight between 50% and 200%.
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