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Hinyokika Kiyo
December 2024
The Department of Urology, Morinomiya Hospital.
We examined the efficacy and adverse effects of low-dose intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Patients who underwent intravesical BCG therapy (n=176 ; 198 courses) at our hospital between April 2012 and December 2022 were enrolled. After assigning patients to either the low-dose or regular-dose (40 or 80 mg of BCG Tokyo 172 strain) groups, treatment efficacy and incidence of adverse events were compared.
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January 2025
Author Affiliations: Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing & Engineering Innovation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Intravenous pumps (IVPs) deliver IV medications to millions of acute care patients each year and result in many adverse events reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although the use of IVPs has improved overall safety, there are still high rates of error that risk the safety of all patients, especially those of advanced age and those suffering from critical illness. Most of the documented errors are based on clinician reports, although there is reason to believe that errors due to flow rate inaccuracy go undetected and unreported.
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January 2025
Author Affiliations: School of Nursing (Mss Meszaros, de Almeida, and Aoki; Drs Silva and Lima), Vascular Access and Infusion Therapy Team, Clinical Hospital (Ms Vieira), Vascular Access and Infusion Therapy Team, Women's Hospital Professor Doutor José Aristodemo Pinotti (Ms Castelani), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil; Nursing Department (Dr Oliveira-Kumakura), Health Faculty of the Paris City University, Paris, France.
This study aimed to develop, assess, and test an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to evaluate nurses' competency in planning and managing infusion therapy. The study adopted a methodological approach with a quantitative design and was conducted from December 2020 to August 2021 at a university hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Data collection occurred in 3 stages: development of scenarios and assessment checklists, evaluation of expert consensus, and testing scenarios with the target audience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis nurse-led research study investigates the comparative effectiveness of heparin versus 0.9% sodium chloride locking in blood cancer patients with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs). Subjects were randomly assigned to receive either heparin or 0.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam Rotterdam The Netherlands.
Limited data are available on VWF activity (VWF:Act) and factor VIII (FVIII:C) levels during delivery after VWF/FVIII concentrate administration in women with von Willebrand disease (VWD). We aimed to evaluate treatment with a specific VWF/FVIII concentrate on factor levels in women with VWD during delivery and the postpartum period. A retrospective single-center study was conducted between January 1, 2008, and August 1, 2022.
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