A Retrospective Analysis of the Effects of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Health Markers and Performance Outcomes among Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients with Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cardiac rehabilitation on health markers and performance outcomes among diabetic and nondiabetic patients with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: One hundred and ninety-seven patients with PCI and CABG, who attended phase 2 cardiac rehabilitation, were included in the study. Patient data were separated by cardiac diagnosis, (PCI and CABG), diabetes category (diabetic and nondiabetic), number of sessions attended (12-24 or 25-36), and time (pre- to post-test).

[Caregiver in a mobile geriatric team, a new profession].

The caregiver plays a key role in the mobile geriatric team. She has a very varied activity. She performs geriatric assessments, evaluates toilets, transmits geriatric culture, maintains the city-hospital link, intervenes in residential facilities for dependent elderly people (Ehpad), performs post-emergency telephone interviews and provides training to paramedics.

[Résistance à l'aspirine : l'ennemi de mon ami est mon ennemi].

Low dose aspirin is an efficient antiplatelet agent to decrease the risk of occlusive arterial events, however it is not infallible. Aspirin resistance describe its inability to block the formation of thromboxane A2 in platelets and/or to produce an inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation. Detection of aspirin resistance relies on the results of various platelet function tests or on blood and urinary thromboxane metabolites concentrations, but these methods show very low correlation and reproducibility.

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The first advanced nursing practice training programmes became available in France in 2018. In this article, several students describe their experience of the course, their motivations and their expectations. Some have decided to undertake the training straight after their initial training, others already have a few years experience.

[The synergy between quality approach and health promotion: synergy between quality approach and health promotion: example of the Ile-de-France/Outre-Mer Legal Protection of Youth].

Aim: Legal Protection of Youth is responsible for the education of juvenile offenders, and for the inspection and assessment of the bodies that supervise them. The objective of this project is to promote and strengthen the synergy between the quality approach and health promotion in the missions of the Ile-de-France/ Outre-Mer Inter-regional Directorate of Legal Protection of Youth.

Methods: A participatory and cross-sectional methodology was used to study two strategies designed to integrate existing prevention and health promotion actions into a quality approach and to include prevention and health promotion in the existing quality approach.