SATISFACTION OF PARTURIENTS WITH EPIDURAL ANALGESIA DURING DELIVERY: ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONNAIRE AT A SINGLE HOSPITAL CENTER.

Epidural analgesia is one of the most common methods of relieving labor pain. The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of epidural analgesia, maternal satisfaction and relationship between the effectiveness of epidural analgesia and various factors. Data were analyzed retrospectively and collected during 2022.

[Barber-Johnson analysis of bed utilization in hospital-based health care in the Croatian Republic during peace and war:1986-1991].

Intensity of bed utilization in Croatia's hospitals in the peace-time period 1986-90 and the war year of 1991 was evaluated. The study covered 32 general-and-teaching hospitals disposing with 21,300 beds in 1986-90 and 27 of these hospitals with 19.000 beds in 1991.

[Analysis of hospital mortality in the Croatian Republic using selected indicators].

Mortality trends and distribution in a system of 32 general and teaching hospitals in the Republic of Croatia for the years 1966 through 1989, separately for 1986/1987, were evaluated as a possible informational support to the national policies regarding developing of health care system. By means of 13 elaborated and/or selected indicators, using hospital health statistics as a data base, we measured the changes in the dynamics, structure and level of death at institutions, individual medical departments and among patients. Hospitals mortality statistics was found to offer a good informational orientation for monitoring realization of the hospital's restructuring activities envisaged under the Aim 29 of the Croatian strategy Health for All by the Year 2000 as well as for planning technical surveillance and streamlining the special statistical studies on inpatient health care.

[Pre-arthrosis of the hip in the adult population].

In order to identify the presence of minor anatomical deformities responsible for the incongruity of the hip joint which causes the degenerative changes, the radiographies of the hips in 332 normal adults were reviewed. The deformities included the acetabular dysplasia and the tilt deformity of the femoral head as the residual condition of epiphyseolysis in adolescence. Using the Wiberg's CE angle acetabular dysplasia was found in 8.

[The role of intravenous digital subtraction angiography in the detection of the cause of cerebral ischemia].

A comparative analysis of two angiography methods applied in two unrelated groups of patients with brain ischemia symptoms is described. The first group of 452 patients suffering from extracranial cerebral artery disease was analyzed by an intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA); the second group of 500 patients was subjected to a conventional aortic arch angiography. Research was based on comparative analysis of angiograms as per type and location of morbid changes.