Quality of hospital care evaluated by Danish nurses and doctors--based on experience from their own or a close family member's hospitalization.

Introduction: No studies have systematically asked larger groups of health professionals about their own experience as patients. This study estimated the level of satisfaction with hospital care among health professionals based on experience from their own hospital admission or that of a close family member.

Methodology: A cross-sectional questionnaire study of 1995 doctors (41% women) and 1472 nurses (98% women) drawn randomly from union registers.

Prior blunt chest trauma may be a cause of single vessel coronary disease; hypothesis and review.

Prompted by a case where a patient (with no risk factors, and single vessel disease) developed angina pectoris after previous blunt chest trauma, we searched Medline for blunt chest trauma and myocardial ischaemia. We found 77 cases describing AMI after blunt chest trauma, but only one reporting angina pectoris. We focused on the age and sex distribution, type of trauma, the angiography findings and the time interval between the trauma and the angiography.

Measurement of arm blood pressure using different oscillometry manometers compared to auscultatory readings.

Five different semiautomatic manometers were tested, where oscillometry is the measuring principle. Three of the manometers (Omron R4, A&D UB 322 and Braun) were wrist manometers, where the occluding cuff is placed around the volar surface of the wrist. Two of the manometers (A&D UA 777 and Omron M4) measure on the upper arm.

[Asystole following synchronized DC conversion].

A case of asystole following direct current CDC cardioversion for atrial fibrillation is described and studies of the complications associated with DC cardioversion are presented. It is important to be aware of the possible severe complications of DC cardioversion.