Annals of palliative medicine
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Colon cancer is the most common malignant tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. This cancer and the related treatments bring a raft of lasting physiological and psychological impacts to patients. This study explored the effects of attention and interpretation therapy (AIT) on improving psychological resilience, cancer-related fatigue (CRF), and negative emotions in patients after colon cancer surgery. ⋯ AIT can effectively strengthen the psychological resilience of patients after colon cancer surgery to a certain extent, reduce anxiety and depression, reduce the degree of CRF, and thus improve the patients' quality of life postoperatively.
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) poses an unprecedented challenge to health and epidemic prevention system, especially the healthcare of patients with cancer. We sought to study the impact of COVID-19 on lung cancer patients in our center. ⋯ This is the first study investigating impact of COVID-19 on non-COVID-19 lung cancer patients during the pandemic. The study demonstrates the significant impact of the COVID-19 crisis on oncological care, indicating the need for appropriate change of treatment decisions and continued follow-up and psycho-oncological support during this pandemic.
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In recent years, disasters occurred frequently all over the world, and the role of nurses in public health emergencies and disaster emergencies was highlighted under the background of the covid19 epidemic. However, there was a lack of education and evaluation. Our study aims to cross-cultural adapt the Nurses' Perceptions of Disaster Core Competencies Scale (NPDCC) and evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version. ⋯ The Chinese version of NPDCC has excellent reliability and validity, and it is suitable to measure nurses' perceptions of disaster core competencies in China. The next step is to promote the application in a large scale.
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The risk of blood loss differs among subtypes of revision total hip arthroplasty (THA), and different tranexamic acid (TXA) protocols have rarely been studied in those conditions. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravenous and intravenous plus topical TXA in a subtype of revision THA. ⋯ Both intravenous TXA and combined TXA significantly reduced perioperative transfusion volume and calculated blood loss in unilateral major revision THA with comparable perioperative transfusion rate and risk of VTE. More researches are required to explore the optimal TXA administration protocol in subtypes of revision THA.
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A 56-year-old male patient was admitted due to a "rectal malignant tumor". He suffered from rash and neutropenia after multiple chemotherapy sessions including oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil (5- FU), and calcium folinate injection (CF) which are called FOLFOX regimen for short. The rash was treated with methylprednisolone + promethazine + calcium gluconate, and the neutropenia was treated by subcutaneous injection of the Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Injection, the symptoms were relieved. ⋯ Therefore, sufficient attention should be paid to the patients reported in this paper who received FOLFOX regimen for multiple times and had multiple rashes and adverse reactions of neutropenia. Medical staff should closely monitored the adverse reactions and changes in vital signs of patients treated with this regimen during chemotherapy, and the chemotherapy regimen should be adjusted or terminated when necessary. The adverse reactions reported in this article deserve clinical attention.