Orvosi hetilap
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Recent guidelines recommend routine pulse oximetric monitoring during endoscopy, however, this has not been the common practice yet in the majority of the local endoscopic units. ⋯ To increase the safety of patients undergoing endoscopic investigation, pulse oximeter and oxygen supplementation should be the standard requirement in all of the endoscopic investigation rooms. Pulse oximetric monitoring is advised routinely during endoscopy with special regard to the risk factors of hypoxemia.
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Multicenter Study
[Sedation and analgesia during gastrointestinal endoscopy].
Sedative and analgesic premedication is frequently used during gastrointestinal endoscopy. Sedation improves patient's compliance, helping the examinations and their safe completion, but it lengthens the procedures, increases the costs, and complications can occur. ⋯ The review summarizes the different forms of sedation, drugs, future techniques and possibilities of improvements. Moreover, sedation practice in Hungary is also described.
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Multicenter Study
[Results of ENDORSE-2-HUNGARIA study. Repeated assessment of the prevalence of venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in acute hospital care setting].
ENDORSE (Epidemiologic International Day for the Evaluation of Patients at Risk for Venous Thromboembolism in the Acute Hospital Care Setting) study in 2006, was a multinational cross-sectional survey designed to assess the prevalence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk in the acute hospital care setting, and to determine the proportion of at-risk patients who receive appropriate prophylaxis. From the 358 randomly selected hospitals across 32 countries in the global registry, 9 Hungarian centers were included. According to the Hungarian results, the use of appropriate prophylaxis was more common in surgical patients but much less common in medical patients comparing to the worldwide average. ⋯ The rate of appropriate prophylaxis use in at-risk patients did not changed significantly in surgical patients, however, a significant, 43.9% increase was found in medical patients (p=0.002), that proves the success of lectures presenting the facts and focusing to increase medical prophylaxis during the time period between the two studies. 59.7% of at-risk medical patients and 15.6% of surgical patients were unprotected against thrombosis in 2009. We should further increase the rate of at-risk patients receiving appropriate prophylaxis. We should reinforce the rationale for the increase of awareness of VTE risk in hospitalized medical patients, and to enhance the prophylaxis practice among healthcare professionals.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
[Cost differences in the treatment of severe sepsis between survivors and non-survivors on the first day of intensive care admission].
Patients admitted to intensive care unit with severe sepsis have high mortality and use significant resources. ⋯ The mortality of severe sepsis is high and the cost of sepsis treatment is low in Hungary compared to international data. Non-survivors cost almost twice as much even on day 1, this warrants the need for early diagnosis and adequate treatment.
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Multicenter Study
[Management of patients with severe head injury in Hungary, in 2002].
In Hungary, epidemiological and clinical data regarding brain injury were rather scarce. The Hungarian Society for Neurotrauma aimed to make a nation-wide study about the number and the mortality of patients with severe head trauma, the organization of management, the diagnostics and monitoring in use, and finally about the clinical practice of management. A national survey was carried out with questionnaires asking about data of 2001, and a prospective, three-month-long data collection based on case studies was also executed in 2002. ⋯ These data showed much worse outcome than those published in Western European countries and North America. In the background the authors found communication disorder between prehospital and hospital care, extreme long time spent until the patients got to the first CT-exam and to the definitive care. The implementation of Hungarian and international head trauma guidelines did not spread widely.