Successful pandemic management through computer science: a case study of a financial corporation with workers on premises.

Background: In November 2019, an infectious agent that caused a severe acute respiratory illness was first detected in China. Its rapid spread resulted in a global lockdown with negative economic impacts. In this regard, we expose the solutions proposed by a multinational financial institution that maintained their workers on premises, so this methodology can be applied to possible future health crisis.

[Work-related motor vehicle injuries among workers at a banking institution (2007-2013)].

Objective: To study physical harm caused by road accidents (LATT in Spanish) among employees of a Spanish financial institution from 2007 to 2013. Additionally, we tried to define damage features in each sex and at different ages in hurt patients, as well as work disability caused by this type of injury.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of labor injuries verified by the occupational medical service of the bank.

[Pulmonary thromboembolism in Occupational Medicine].

Occupational physicians should be familiar with the risk factors and clinical presentation of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). PTE belongs to the group ofis a cardiovascular diseases, which are the main cause (40%) of death in Spanish workplaces; at present, they may be considered a work-related injury because of the doctrinal evolution in the legal interpretation of the presumption of iuris tantum. We present the case of a hypertensive and obese adult male who suffered a PTE at his workplace.

[Non work-related sickness absence in 2013 in a Spanish banking sector company].

Objectives: To describe the incidence and duration of episodes of non work-related temporary sickness absence (SA) between January and December of 2013, by diagnostic groups, in a banking sector company.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of 3.193 episodes of SA (≥ day), excluding work-related injuries and illnesses.

[Occupational semicircular lipoatrophy associated with serum adipokine abnormalities].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between semicircular lipoatrophy (SL), inflammation marker (high sensibility C-reactive protein [hs-CRP]), adipokines (leptine, chemerine and vaspine) and autoimmune markers (rheumatoid factor [RF], C3 and C4 complement fractions, antinuclear antibodies [ANA], HLA DR3, and DR4). Chemerine is an adipokine, but also is an immunity marker.

Methods: A case-control study was performed in May 2013; 21 cases were included.

[Anorexia nervosa in a worker: a case report].

We describe the management of a case of anorexia nervosa (body mass index, -BMI-, 13,6 Kg/m2) in a bank teller. The case was detected through routine occupational health surveillance. After being evaluated by different specialists (general practitioner, psychiatrist and endocrinologist) and being closely monitored (by psychology, nursing, and occupational medicine), the worker regained weight to a near normal BMI (17 Kg/m2) in less than a year and a half.

[Cardiovascular risk prediction and its relationship with metabolic syndrome and emerging serum makers in occupational health surveillance].

Objectives: To calculate cardiovascular risk according to the American Framingham Coronary Risk Score (FCRS) and the European Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) methods. To correlate the results with the presence of meta-bolic syndrome (glycemia, triglyceridemia, cholesterolemia, abdominal circumference and blood pressure) and with serum levels of three emerging biomarkers [ultrasensitive reactive C protein (PCRus), homocysteine (Hcy) and lipoproteín (a) (lp (a)].

Methods: Data were gathered during routine medical surveillance of mostly white collar workers in FREMAP Alcobendas from 2004 to 2006 (n=248).

[Four year follow-up of a screening program for prostate cancer in workers].

Objectives: To analyze our four-year follow-up experience (2008-2011) with a prostate cancer screening program offered to employees of a banking company.

Methods: Data were obtained from the health examinations carried out by the bank's in-house occupational health service (with centers in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia). PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood levels were measured and cases with high levels (>4 ng/ml) were followed through diagnosis and treatment, including a telephone survey of confirmed cases.

Case-control study of semicircular lipoatrophy, a new occupational disease in office workers.

Objectives: Semicircular lipoatrophy (SL) is an emerging occupational pathology. Its etiology is poorly understood. We intend to establish the probable risk factors and estimate the relative risk.