Notoginsenoside Ft1 acts as a TGR5 agonist but FXR antagonist to alleviate high fat diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in mice

Obesity and its associated complications are highly related to a current public health crisis around the world. A growing body of evidence has indicated that G-protein coupled bile acid (BA) receptor TGR5 (also known as Gpbar-1) is a potential drug target to treat obesity and associated metabolic disorders. We have identified notoginsenoside Ft1 (Ft1) from

Impact of personalized psychological intervention based upon acceptance and commitment therapy on pediatric liver transplantation donors and spouses / 中华器官移植杂志

Objective:To explore the effect of personalized psychological intervention based upon acceptance and commitment therapy on paternal donors and spouses after pediatric liver transplantation.Methods:From July 2017 to November 2019, a total of 160 parental donors and spouses undergoing pediatric liver transplantation were selected as research objects.Through a random number table, 40 donors and 40 liver donor spouses were assigned into control and experimental groups.The control group received routine psychological intervention while the experimental group had personalized psychological intervention with acceptance and commitment therapy based upon conventional psychological intervention.Symptom checklist-90, numeric rating scale, chronic pain acceptance questionnaire-8, length of stay, hospitalization cost, complication rate, initial postoperative ambulation time and hospital satisfaction were employed as evaluation tools.Results:After interventions, SCL-90 score, pain assessment score and initial ambulation time of donor group were significantly lower than those of control group( P<0.05). Hospitalization satisfaction and chronic pain acceptance were significantly higher than those of control group( P<0.05). SCL-90 score was significantly lower in liver spouse observation group than that in control group and hospitalization satisfaction higher than control group( P<0.05). Conclusions:Personalized psychological intervention based upon acceptance and commitment therapy can help parental donors and spouses to improve their mental health, help donors to recover sooner and boost hospitalization satisfaction.

A qualitative study on psychological experience of pediatric living donor liver transplantation donors / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To understand the psychological experience of the pediatric living donor liver transplantation who is the child`s parent, identify the problems and gains that donors face in the event of donor liver, help donors to solve their difficulties to promote early recovery of donors and children, and help potential donors better understand the surgical. Methods The phenomenological methodology in qualitative research was used in the study, and the Colaizzi 7-step data analysis method was used for analysis the interview recording. Results Total of four themes are summarized. Preoperative psychological path: excitement, impatience, anxiety. Postperative growth: grateful, regain hope, hard work and proactive. Postnatal negative emotions: fear and jealousy. Family and social support. Conclusion Medical staff should strengthen psychological care and health education, use narrative care and other methods to mobilize the donor′s positive psychological experience, while providing perioperative quality care, strengthen social and family support, and help donors to restore physical and mental health.

A qualitative study on psychological experience of pediatric living donor liver transplantation donors / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective@#To understand the psychological experience of the pediatric living donor liver transplantation who is the child`s parent, identify the problems and gains that donors face in the event of donor liver, help donors to solve their difficulties to promote early recovery of donors and children, and help potential donors better understand the surgical.@*Methods@#The phenomenological methodology in qualitative research was used in the study, and the Colaizzi 7-step data analysis method was used for analysis the interview recording.@*Results@#Total of four themes are summarized. Preoperative psychological path: excitement, impatience, anxiety. Postperative growth: grateful, regain hope, hard work and proactive. Postnatal negative emotions: fear and jealousy. Family and social support.@*Conclusion@#Medical staff should strengthen psychological care and health education, use narrative care and other methods to mobilize the donor′s positive psychological experience, while providing perioperative quality care, strengthen social and family support, and help donors to restore physical and mental health.

Study on the preventive use of antibiotics in removal surgery for internal fixation / 药学实践杂志

Objective To investigate the preventive use of antibiotics for internal fixation as selective removal surgery during perioperative period.Methods The sex, age, routine blood examination data, preventive medications, secondary incision infection and postoperative hospital stay for the patients underwent selective removal surgery for internal fixation from July2015to June 2017were analyzed.Results The average postoperative hospitalization time for the preventive medication group (n=71) and the untreated group (n=350) were (1.80±1.24) days and (1.27±0.61) days.This difference was statistically significant (P＜0.05).Conclusion Preventive antibiotics use is not related to incision infections.It is recommended to correct the current behavior of the preventive drug use.The preventive antibiotics use in selective removal surgery for internal fixation in the Department of orthopedics needs to be reduced.