Comparison of the outcome of emergency endotracheal intubation in the general ward, intensive care unit and emergency department.

Background: Emergency endotracheal intubations outside the operating room (OR) are associated with high complications. We compare the outcome of emergency endotracheal intubation in the general ward, the intensive care unit (ICU) and the emergency department (ED).

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed adult patients requiring emergency endotracheal intubation that called for anesthesiologists at our tertiary care institution from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016.

Impact of health policy based on the self-management program on Cesarean section rate at a tertiary hospital in Taiwan.

Background/purpose: In 2005, a self-management program, based on the global budget system that met the criteria for reducing Cesarean delivery rates, was introduced to obstetric practices in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of different national health policies on the Cesarean delivery rate at a tertiary hospital.

Methods: We constructed a Poisson regression model and conducted an interrupted time series analysis to detect the effects of the implementation of each health policy on Cesarean deliveries.

The comparison of two recovery room warming methods for hypothermia patients who had undergone spinal surgery.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the time needed to reach a specified temperature and the efficiency of two warming methods-warm cotton blankets and a radiant warmer-for hypothermia patients in a postanesthetic care unit (PACU) after spinal surgery.

Design: This study was conducted according to a quasi-experimental design. Data were collected from a medical referral center in northern Taiwan.

Mental health implications of music: insight from neuroscientific and clinical studies.

Neuroscientific and clinical studies of music over the past two decades have substantially increased our understanding of its use as a means of therapy. The authors briefly review current literature related to music's effect on people with different mental illnesses, and examine several neurobiological theories that may explain its effectiveness or lack thereof in treating psychiatric disorders. Neuroscientific studies have shown music to be an agent capable of influencing complex neurobiological processes in the brain and suggest that it can potentially play an important role in treatment.