[Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurses' Self-Evaluation of Their Technical Skills and Support From Others in the Hospital].

We conducted a questionnaire survey of psychiatric nurses to clarify the relationship between their self-evaluation of their technical skills and support from others. We obtained valid responses from 578 of these nurses. Factor analysis was used to extract support factors for five types of professionals: supervisors, seniors, peers, juniors, and other professionals in the workplace.

A Patient with Heart Failure and Sleep-disordered Breathing Who Presented with Marked Reverse Remodeling by Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy.

A 49-year-old Japanese man with worsening dyspnea was admitted with the diagnosis of new-onset heart failure (HF). His HF symptoms improved with standard treatment, but his left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 21% remained unchanged. After he was discharged, he was diagnosed with severe sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).

Changes in Central Hemodynamics in Women With Hypertensive Pregnancy Between Before and After Delivery.

The authors tested the hypothesis that central hemodynamic parameters in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) change between before and after delivery. A total of 137 pregnant women were studied: 72 with HDP, 42 with chronic hypertension (CH), and 23 with white-coat hypertension (WCH; control group). Aortic augmentation index adjusted by heart rate 75 beats per minute (AIx@75), central pulse pressure (PP), total peripheral resistance (TPR), and cardiac output (CO) before and after delivery were recorded.