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A 63-year-old man with active COVID-19 infection and a history of coronary artery bypass grafting presented with acute thrombotic occlusion of saphenous venous graft which was anastomosed to the left anterior descending artery. Initial antegrade approach, complicated by a small leakage in the distal left anterior descending artery, was later converted to a retrograde approach via occluded saphenous vein graft. After successful stenting, TIMI 3 flow was achieved.
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Objective: The aim of this research is to evaluate attitudes, concern and stress levels of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 in Turkey. Material and Method: This study was conducted among health professionals who work in Turkey. Data collection form has been shared with health professionals through Google Forms, between the dates 07-27 April 2020. The 968 questionnaires with appropriate data quality was included in the study. Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) was used to measure the stress levels of healthcare workers. SPSS 23.0 statistical package program was used to analyze the data. Statistical significance level was accepted as p <0.05. Results: 96.6% of the participants stated that infected people should be isolated from the society, 94.3% thought that their work was risky for being infected with COVID-19. 90.1% of the participants in the study stated that they were worried about transmitting the disease to their family, friends or other people The mean perceived stress scale is 23.6±6.1, and the median is 23.0 (3-40). The PSS-10 score was found to be higher in frontline employees and those who were unwilling or hesitant to provide services to COVID-19 patients. Conclusion: This study emphasizes the attitudes of most healthcare workers that patients should be isolated and that their work is risky in terms of becoming infected with COVID-19;and concerns about infection and transmission of COVID-19. In addition, perceived stress levels of healthcare professionals were found to be quite high.
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Objective: The aim of this research is to evaluate attitudes, concern and stress levels of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 in Turkey. Material and Method: This study was conducted among health professionals who work in Turkey. Data collection form has been shared with health professionals through Google Forms, between the dates 07-27 April 2020. The 968 questionnaires with appropriate data quality was included in the study. Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) was used to measure the stress levels of healthcare workers. SPSS 23.0 statistical package program was used to analyze the data. Statistical significance level was accepted as p <0.05. Results: 96.6% of the participants stated that infected people should be isolated from the society, 94.3% thought that their work was risky for being infected with COVID-19. 90.1% of the participants in the study stated that they were worried about transmitting the disease to their family, friends or other people The mean perceived stress scale is 23.6 +/- 6. I. and the median is 23.0 (3-40). The PSS-10 score was found to be higher in front-line employees and those who were unwilling or hesitant to provide services to COVID-19 patients. Conclusion: This study emphasizes the attitudes of most healthcare workers that patients should be isolated and that their work is risky in terms of becoming infected with COVID-19;and concerns about infection and transmission of COVID-19. In addition, perceived stress levels of healthcare professionals were found to be quite high.
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Wearing a non-medical mask or face covering helps reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the community. The use of non-medical masks or face covers changes communication for everyone, but this presents an additional challenge for people with hearing loss or communication difficulties. People with hearing loss may have difficulty hearing in difficult situations, such as in noisy places or when they cannot trust lip reading cues or body expressions. face. In this study, a survey is implemented where speech recognition level-based questions are asked to the participants. Then, the same questions are asked again for the cases where medical masks are worn. In doing so, participants are also asked to explain the main difference between the pandemic period and the time before pandemic. Results show that wearing a medical mask has a concrete impact on speech recognition and causes a degrade on hearing level. © 2020 IEEE.