Assessing the association between probable posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and quality of life among emergency service workers using path analysis.

Background: Emergency service workers have highly stressful occupations; the stressors encountered can contribute to the development of mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Objective: The present study used a conceptual model and survey to identify variables influencing the association between probable PTSD and quality of life (QOL) in emergency service workers.

Method: PTSD was assessed using the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.

The mediating effect of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression on the relationship between personality traits and quality of life in emergency service workers.

Background: Emergency service workers are often exposed to fatalities during accidents or disasters. Therefore, they may be more prone to experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. It has been shown that these comorbid disorders are related to personality traits and quality of life (QOL).

Assessing Subgroup Differences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Rescue Workers in Japan With the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.

Objective: We examined the impact of demographic confounding factors on responses to the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.

Methods: Participants were rescue workers aged 20 to 65 years who had responded during the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. A multiple indicators, multiple causes model was used to examine associations between covariates and latent factors or items in the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.

Onset of rocuronium-induced neuromuscular block evaluated subjectively and accerelomyographically at the masseter muscle.

Purpose: The main aim of this study was to compare the onset times of rocuronium evaluated subjectively and by acceleromyography at the masseter muscle (MM).

Methods: Forty female patients were sequentially enrolled in this study. In the first 20 patients, neuromuscular block was evaluated subjectively.

Monitoring masseter muscle evoked responses enables faster tracheal intubation.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether monitoring neuromuscular block at the masseter muscle (MM) would allow faster tracheal intubation when compared with that at the adductor pollicis muscle (APM).

Methods: Twenty female patients undergoing gynecological surgery were enrolled into this study. Immediately after inducing anesthesia with fentanyl and propofol, both the left masseter and ulnar nerves were stimulated in a 2 Hz train-of-four (TOF) mode using peripheral nerve stimulators.

[A retrospective study in spinal anesthesia for sumo-wrestlers].

Background: Spinal anesthesia for the Sumo-wrestler is thought to be difficult because of following reasons. 1. Sumo-wrestlers are so fatty and weighty that piercing spinal needle into the subarachnoid space is technically difficult.