Parents' experiences of paediatric palliative care in the community healthcare system: a qualitative study.

Background: Having a child with a life-limiting illness is a situation that is relatively rare and represents a multidimensional burden on the family. Paediatric palliative care (PPC) aims to maintain the quality of life for the ill child and the family. Traditionally, most PPC has been provided at a specialist healthcare level, but research indicates that most families wish to spend as much time at home as possible.

"It's Like a Cyber-Security Blanket": The Utility of Remote Activity Monitoring in Family Dementia Care.

Technologies have emerged that aim to help older persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs) remain at home while also supporting their caregiving family members. However, the usefulness of these innovations, particularly in home-based care contexts, remains underexplored. The current study evaluated the and utility of an in-home remote activity monitoring (RAM) system for 30 family caregivers of persons with ADRD via quantitative survey data collected over a 6-month period and qualitative survey and interview data collected for up to 18 months.

Creating objects with 3D printers to stimulate reminiscence in memory loss: A mixed-method feasibility study.

Objective: The objective of the current project was to determine the feasibility of using 3D printed technology to facilitate reminiscence-related activities for persons with memory loss (PWMLs).

Methods: A parallel convergent mixed methods design was used. Fifteen PWMLs, 13 family members, and six staff from two residential long-term care facilities participated.

[Comparative assessment of ct-bypass angiography and invasive coronary angiography in patients after coronary bypass surgery in the late postoperative period].

The aim of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ct-bypass angiography in the evaluation of significant stenosis and occlusion of grafts, recipient and nongrafted vessels in patients after coronary bypass surgery in the late postoperative period. Ct-bypass angiography was performed on 64-slice ct scanner with a slice thickness of 0.5 mm and a gantry rotation time of 0.

[Magnetic resonance tomography in diagnostics of coronary heart disease].

Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance tomography (1.5 Tl) was used to examine 101 patients with coronary heart disease. It was shown that angina of effort was associated with disturbed myocardial perfusion manifest during the first passage of the contrast agent at sites with a hypointense signal.

[Role of health centers in reduction of morbidity in women employed in the construction industry].

The study covered the health status of 4500 women of various building occupations. Locomotor diseases turned out to take the first place among other somatic diseases. Disorders of larynx, ear and nose are widely spread.

[Comparative study of the action of Finoptin, Korinfar and Capoten in patients with stage II hypertensive disease].

The effects of Finoptin, Corinfar, and Capoten were examined in 154 patients with Stage II hypertensive disease. The calcium antagonists Finoptin and Corinfar, as well as Capoten were equal in lowering blood pressure and having a heterodirectional action on cardiodynamics: Finoptin exerted a positive inotropic effect in 46.3% and a negative one in 53.

[Comparison of the hemodynamic effects of Corinfar in patients with neurocirculatory dystonia and hypertensive disease].

Echocardiography was used to study the cardio- and hemodynamic effects of corinfar in 22 patients with neurocirculatory dystonia and 24 with hypertensive disease. The agent showed a pronounced hyperdynamic effect in patients with neurocirculatory dystonia, whereas it significantly lowered systolic, diastolic, mean blood pressures in those with hypertensive disease, by facilitating left ventricular performance without hyperkinemia. It is concluded that neurocirculatory dystonia and hypertensive disease are different diseases, by judging from the cardio- and hemodynamic effects of the calcium antagonist in these patients.