Clinical nurse specialist practice patterns.

Purpose: The study purpose was to describe clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice patterns (activities, outcomes, and practice barriers).

Design: A cross-sectional survey design was used for this research study.

Setting And Sample: California Board of Registered Nursing certified CNSs (N = 1,523).

Interdisciplinary group approach to occupational safety and health administration standard: reductions in cost and duplication of effort.

After the December 1991 publication of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration standard, "Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens; Final Rule," medical facilities in the United States were challenged to meet the mandates of this standard with massive training in a relatively short time. An interdisciplinary task force composed of representative members of a major health maintenance organization was charged with the task of developing a training plan for 11 Southern California medical centers and their 42 satellite medical offices. The task force ultimately developed, refined, and distributed a Trainer Guidebook that could be used by a variety of disciplines.

[Peritonitis, septic shock and endotoxin--an animal experiment study].

Fecal peritonitis was produced by a sphincter-system leading to intestinal perforation. In 10 beagle dogs endotoxin was measured with the Limulus test. There was a correlation between endotoxin appearance and microbiological findings in the peritoneal cavity and in the blood.

[Endotoxin in diffuse suppurative peritonitis].

Endotoxin has been measured in the blood and peritoneal fluid from 28 patients with diffuse peritonitis after intestinal perforation, intestinal obstruction or mesenteric infarction. Phenol-Water-Extraction for plasma preparation has been used. Endotoxin in correlated with the clinical state in these patients.