Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Sep 2007
Review[Influenza vaccination in health-care workers: an effective method to reduce the consequences of influenza in health care users].
Only few usable studies into the effect of influenza vaccination of health-care workers on sick leave and influenza among their patients are available in the literature. However, together these studies provide consistent evidence that this vaccination is effective and cost effective, reducing the death rate from all causes of residents of nursing homes for the elderly by 27-44%. Therefore, measures to raise the vaccination rate among health-care workers, which is at present under 25%, are highly recommended. However, more studies in this field are needed.
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Ketamine is a new party drug, which is easy to obtain. For this reason, it is possible that physicians will be increasingly confronted with users that have medical problems. Relatively few cases of ketamine intoxication with a fatal outcome have been reported thus far. ⋯ As a result, the chance of untoward effects is increased. Anaesthetists use ketamine for short surgical procedures, sedation and analgesia. It is also used more and more often as an analgesic in patients who do not respond well to opioids.