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Int J Palliat Nurs
January 2025
Nursing Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Background: Nurses experience high levels of stress while providing end-of-life care, which puts them under emotional pressure, stress and conflict. Therefore, this study aimed to explain the experiences of nurses during the provision of end-of-life care in Iran.
Methods: A qualitative descriptive study conducted using a conventional content analysis approach in Gorgan in 2023.
Eur J Heart Fail
January 2025
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Aims: It is common in heart failure (HF) trials, especially in HF with preserved (HFpEF) and mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF), to select for increased risk of outcomes ('enrichment'). We investigated the association between loop diuretic use and common trial outcomes.
Methods And Results: Patients in the Swedish HF Registry with HFmrEF and HFpEF were divided into three groups: no loop diuretic use, 1-40 mg furosemide equivalent, and >40 mg.
BMJ Open
January 2025
Student Research Committee, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for end-of-life care has increased. This type of care is different for patients with COVID-19 compared with other patients. This study aims to explain the experiences of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients with COVID-19.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Aims: Exercise testing remains underused in patients with aortic stenosis (AS), partly due to concerns about an exercise-induced drop in systolic blood pressure (SBP). We aimed to study the SBP response to exercise in patients with severe symptomatic AS prior to surgery and 1 year postoperatively.
Methods: Patients scheduled for aortic valve replacement due to severe symptomatic AS were enrolled at a single centre in a prospective observational cohort study.
Front Psychol
January 2025
Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Depression is presented as a multi-factorial bio-psycho-social expression that has evolved primarily as an effect of stressors related to the motivational/emotional systems that regulate the in our relationship with conspecifics. These stressors may be caused by two sources of threat, firstly, the loss of bonding with the caregiver and later with a partner and/or group which relates to the SEPARATION (PANIC/GRIEF) system, secondly, social defeat as an expression of the social competition and social dominance. The sexual maturity drives the individual to social competition and social dominance, even if the latter often occurs before sexual maturity, e.
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