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To study influence of social factors on life quality of coal industry workers, the authors designed a new method assessing individual life quality in miners, based on life quality assessment suggested by WHO. According to the study, life quality value averaged 27.7% in the examinees. According to the scale presented, average life quality level in the miners is low. Variability of life quality levels in the miners is determined mostly by social satisfaction index and health satisfaction index. Anxiety about health and quality of social care appeared to be main factors of low life quality in coal industry workers. Keywords: life quality, coal industry workers, psychologic component of health.
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Coal Mining , Occupational Diseases/psychology , Occupational Health , Quality of Life/psychology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The review covers prospects of pharmaceutic care implementation for coal industry workers and problems of interactions between pharmaceutical workers and medical establishment officers in optimization of medical and pharmaceutic care for miners. The authors present value of pharmaceutic care in treatment of specific diseases, where pharmaceutic care is defined as system providing pharmacotherapy for better results and improving life quality of patients.
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Coal Mining , Disease Management , Occupational Diseases/therapy , Occupational Exposure/adverse effects , Occupational Medicine/methods , HumansABSTRACT
The review covers aspects connected with formation of concept of pharmaceutic aid in occupational diseases. The authors emphasize problems of interactions between pharmacy workers and medical organizations officers for optimizing pharmaceutic aid. Prospects of the pharmaceutic aid concept implementation into treatment of specific diseases including occupational diseases in miners are shown.
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Occupational Diseases/drug therapy , Occupational Health Services/standards , HumansABSTRACT
Decompensated aortic valve stenosis is a life-threatening condition. Aortic valve replacement in patients with cardiogenic shock due to critical aortic stenosis is a high-risk procedure and is associated with increased operative mortality. We describe the clinical course of a patient who was transferred to our institution in cardiogenic shock and with multiple organ failure, due to decompensated aortic valve stenosis. The patient received the percutaneous left ventricular assist device TandemHeart which has been developed for short-term cardiac support. After hemodynamic improvement the patient underwent successful aortic valve replacement. The device was left in place until the patient had recovered from surgery. The excellent outcome suggests that a perioperative mechanical support might greatly improve the safety of aortic valve replacement in the presence of cardiogenic shock.
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Aortic Valve Stenosis/surgery , Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation , Heart-Assist Devices , Aged , Aortic Valve Stenosis/complications , Aortic Valve Stenosis/physiopathology , Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation/adverse effects , Hemodynamics , Humans , Male , Multiple Organ Failure/etiology , Preoperative Care , Risk Assessment , Shock, Cardiogenic/etiology , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
The paper carries data on the morbidity of greenhouse female workers in Kuzbass. Influence of the medical, social and occupational factors exerted on the occupational morbidity is evaluated; methodological approaches to prognosticating the morbidity with temporary disablement are defined.
