[Job Satisfaction of Young Professionals in Health Care].

Background: Job satisfaction in health care is currently important in view of workforce shortage in the health care area. The purpose of this study was to evaluate job satisfaction in young health professionals and to identify factors possibly influencing overall job satisfaction.

Methods: About one year after graduating from vocational training, a total of 579 graduates from various health care professions [Nursing (N), Nursing and Geriatric Nursing; Therapy (TP), Physical therapy and Logopaedics; Diagnostics (D), Diagnostic Radiography and Biomedical Science], were invited to participate in an online-survey.

Counterbalancing risks and gains from extended resections in malignant glioma surgery: a supplemental analysis from the randomized 5-aminolevulinic acid glioma resection study. Clinical article.

Object: Accumulating data suggest more aggressive surgery in patients with malignant glioma to improve outcome. However, extended surgery may increase morbidity. The randomized Phase III 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) study investigated 5-ALA-induced fluorescence as a tool for improving resections.

Impact of sepsis, lung injury, and the role of lipid infusion on circulating prostacyclin and thromboxane A(2).

Objective: To investigate whether plasma levels of prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane A(2) (TxA2) are a function of the infusion rate of soybean-based fat emulsions, severity of systemic inflammation, and pulmonary organ failure.

Design: Prospective, randomized, crossover study.

Setting: Intensive care unit of a university hospital.

Effects of intravenous fat emulsions on lung function in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome or sepsis.

Objective: To investigate whether rapid or slowly infused intravenous fat emulsions affect the ratio of prostaglandin I2/thromboxane A2 in arterial blood, pulmonary hemodynamics, and gas exchange.

Design: Prospective, controlled, randomized, crossover study.

Setting: Operative intensive care unit of a university hospital.