Everyone Has Their Scars: Meaning Making In a Burn Survivor Support Group.

In the Burn Care literature, there is little on the lived experiences of burn support group members, the perceived benefits of burn support groups for the members, and even less on the meaning the survivors make of the support they receive. In order to provide effective services and to meet the psychosocial needs of burn survivors, it is important to understand the influence a support group has on its members as well as the personal experiences of those individuals who attend these groups. The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning that burn survivors make in a burn survivor support group. A non-random, purposeful convenience sample of six self-identified burn survivors was interviewed using a guided in-depth interview technique to explore their experiences in the support group. Key informant interviews and group observations served to triangulate the data collected in the individual interviews. The experiences of the group's members coalesced around five main themes: acceptance of self, perspective change, value of community, reciprocity, and structural meaning making components. The findings demonstrated the overall positive impact the support group had on psychosocial recovery. Additionally, analysis suggested that the meaning making process experience included Post Traumatic Growth and highlighted the importance of community in psychosocial recovery. Burn survivors reported unique growth opportunities that allowed them to integrate their injury into their identity within an encouraging and safe environment. Certain factors, such as improving group attendance, were addressed and both survivors and support staff generated suggestions for reaching others in need of support.

Electrical control of a single Mn atom in a quantum dot

We report on the reversible electrical control of the magnetic properties of a single Mn atom in an individual quantum dot. Our device permits us to prepare the dot in states with three different electric charges, 0, +1e, and -1e which result in dramatically different spin properties, as revealed by photoluminescence. Whereas in the neutral configuration the quantum dot is paramagnetic, the electron-doped dot spin states are spin rotationally invariant and the hole-doped dot spins states are quantized along the growth direction.

Hemorragia subaracnoideia (HSA) por rotura de aneurisma cerebral em doentes admitidos no Hospital de Santa Maria (HSM) : análise retrospetiva de 2008 a 2012

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Conhecimento e atitudes dos pais perante a criança com febre em contexto de serviço de urgência

Enquadramento – A febre na criança constitui uma das principais manifestações que impul-siona os pais na procura dos cuidados de saúde diferenciados, resultando na utilização ina-propriada de recursos. Objetivos – Identificar as variáveis sociodemográficas que interferem no conhecimento e nas atitudes dos pais perante a criança com febre; avaliar a influência do número de filhos no conhecimento e nas atitudes; identificar as fontes de informação que influenciam o conheci-mento e as atitudes dos pais. Material e Método – Estudo quantitativo, transversal, descritivo e correlacional. Recorreu-se ao questionário que inclui a caracterização sociodemográfica, contextual da criança, variá-veis clínicas de fontes de informação e questões que avaliam o conhecimento e as atitudes dos pais perante a febre na criança. A amostragem é não probabilística por conveniência (144 pais/cuidadores). Resultados – Amostra predominantemente feminina (86.8%), os homens são mais velhos (M=34.05 anos .6.45 anos); cerca de 9 em cada 10 das crianças eram acompanhadas pela mãe. Os sintomas que mais preocupam e levaram os participantes a recorrer ao Serviço de Urgência foram: vómitos/desidratação (66.4%), mau estado geral (64.6%), dificuldade respirató-ria (52.1%); em 58.5% dos casos de febre sem foco poder-se-ia ter utilizado os cuidados de saúde primários; a idade da criança e o sexo dummy revelaram-se preditoras dos conhecimen-tos e o sexo preditor das atitudes; as mulheres e os homens com mais idade e com filhos mais jovens possuem melhores conhecimentos; as mulheres têm atitudes mais adequadas. Conclusões – As mulheres possuem conhecimentos intermédios e revelam melhor atitude perante a febre. Quanto maior a escolaridade melhor é o conhecimento e os participantes que procuram como fonte de informação um profissional de saúde, possuem atitudes mais ade-quadas. Assume grande relevância a aquisição de competências que proporcionem aos pais/cuidadores ferramentas que os ajudem a lidar com a fobia da febre. Palavras-chave: Febre; Criança; Pais; Conhecimento; Atitudes; Serviço de Urgência.

Short structured feedback training is equivalent to a mechanical feedback device in two-rescuer BLS: a randomised simulation study.

BACKGROUND Resuscitation guidelines encourage the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) feedback devices implying better outcomes after sudden cardiac arrest. Whether effective continuous feedback could also be given verbally by a second rescuer ("human feedback") has not been investigated yet. We, therefore, compared the effect of human feedback to a CPR feedback device. METHODS In an open, prospective, randomised, controlled trial, we compared CPR performance of three groups of medical students in a two-rescuer scenario. Group "sCPR" was taught standard BLS without continuous feedback, serving as control. Group "mfCPR" was taught BLS with mechanical audio-visual feedback (HeartStart MRx with Q-CPR-Technology™). Group "hfCPR" was taught standard BLS with human feedback. Afterwards, 326 medical students performed two-rescuer BLS on a manikin for 8 min. CPR quality parameters, such as "effective compression ratio" (ECR: compressions with correct hand position, depth and complete decompression multiplied by flow-time fraction), and other compression, ventilation and time-related parameters were assessed for all groups. RESULTS ECR was comparable between the hfCPR and the mfCPR group (0.33 vs. 0.35, p = 0.435). The hfCPR group needed less time until starting chest compressions (2 vs. 8 s, p < 0.001) and showed fewer incorrect decompressions (26 vs. 33 %, p = 0.044). On the other hand, absolute hands-off time was higher in the hfCPR group (67 vs. 60 s, p = 0.021). CONCLUSIONS The quality of CPR with human feedback or by using a mechanical audio-visual feedback device was similar. Further studies should investigate whether extended human feedback training could further increase CPR quality at comparable costs for training.

Emergency medical technician instructor training institute. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Course guide.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module I: the emergency medical technician, his role, responsibility, and training.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module II: human systems and patient assessment.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module IV: general pharmacology.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module V: respiratory system.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module VII: central nervous system.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module VIII: soft tissue injuries.

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National training course, emergency medical technician - paramedic. Instructor's lesson plans. Module IX: musculoskeletal.

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