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Eur Geriatr Med ; 14(1): 153-164, 2023 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36645609

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of eye disease and visual impairment in care home residents is disproportionately higher compared to the general population. Access to eye care services and treatment can be variable for this vulnerable population. OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews the available evidence of services and interventions for delivering eye care to care home residents. The key review questions are: (1) What is the existing evidence for eye care interventions or services (including service configuration) for care home residents? (2) Does the provision of these interventions or services improve outcomes? METHODS: Literature search of EMBASE/MEDLINE for original papers published since 1995. Two reviewers independently reviewed abstracts/papers. Data were extracted and evaluated using narrative synthesis. RESULTS: 13 original papers met the inclusion criteria. Domiciliary optometrist services improved diagnosis and management of eye conditions, with one study showing 53% of residents benefited from direct ophthalmology intervention. Provision of interventions, such as cataract surgery, refractive error correction and low-vision rehabilitation, improved visual acuity and vision-related quality of life but did not improve cognitive or physical function, depression or health-related quality of life. There was little UK-based literature to inform eye service design or interventions to improve outcomes such as falls. CONCLUSION: Care home-based eye assessments improve the management of eye conditions. Interventions improve visual acuity and vision-related quality of life. Further research is needed to better understand current UK services, access difficulties or examples of good practice as well as to identify and test cost-effective service models for this vulnerable group.


Assuntos
Extração de Catarata , Oftalmopatias , Erros de Refração , Baixa Visão , Humanos , Qualidade de Vida , Oftalmopatias/diagnóstico , Oftalmopatias/epidemiologia , Oftalmopatias/terapia
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Rev Med Brux ; 34(4): 357-67, 2013 Sep.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24195253

RESUMO

Physicians are asked to complete certificates within their profession. These certificates relate to various aspects of an individual's life, from birth to the end of life. The nature of requests is striking by its diversity. As a first step, the authors recall the outline of a certificate and its structure, as well as traps, hazards and risks to avoid. In a second step they describe three specific situations for the certificate: in the context of work accidents, common law accidents and social matters. All materials can not be treated in this space, so they refer the reader to the main bibliographic sources useful in this matter.


Assuntos
Acidentes de Trabalho/legislação & jurisprudência , Definição da Elegibilidade , Prontuários Médicos/legislação & jurisprudência , Certificação/legislação & jurisprudência , Certificação/métodos , Confidencialidade/legislação & jurisprudência , Avaliação da Deficiência , Humanos , Legislação Médica , Prontuários Médicos/normas , Direitos do Paciente/legislação & jurisprudência , Responsabilidade Social
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Rev Med Brux ; 34(6): 469-78, 2013.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24505867

RESUMO

Medical practice today is not simple because of various factors impinging on the doctor-patient relationship. The concept of consent arises from the ethical principle of patient autonomy and basic human rights. It is also the rule of law (Civil Code article 16-3) that guarantees the patient's right and freedom to decide what should or should not happen to his/her body and to gather information before undergoing a test/procedure/surgery. No one else has the right to coerce the patient to act in a particular way. The authors after a reflexion about medical accidents and their medicolegal implications, discuss the means to display in order to provide to the patients the adequate information about their disease and proposed treatment, therefore protecting the medical practitioner from the consequences of insufficient or ill information.


Assuntos
Acidentes/legislação & jurisprudência , Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido , Responsabilidade Legal , Erros Médicos/legislação & jurisprudência , Acidentes/classificação , Bélgica , Humanos , Doença Iatrogênica/epidemiologia , Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido/legislação & jurisprudência , Notificação de Abuso , Erros Médicos/classificação , Erros Médicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Educação de Pacientes como Assunto/legislação & jurisprudência , Relações Médico-Paciente , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto
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Rev Med Brux ; 30(6): 568-76, 2009.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20545070

RESUMO

The authors describe in this article the possible complications of spine surgery. By exposing them, they wish to draw the attention of the practitioners on the multiple risks related to these operations, as well as the means to prevent them and to make them stop their effects. The "zero" risk does not exist, even for the most common operations. However there is a tendency by the judiciary system to look favourably at the demands for compensation of damage, considering that at the origin of every post operative complication exists, more or less hidden, a fault eligible for financial repair. Up to the present day, a fault must be proven in the management of a medical case. A reminder of the foundations of the medical responsibility applied to the surgery of the spine is reported, knowing well that surgical damages are not always the result of an error or a misconduct, and therefore, the surgeon is not responsible for the damage in the absence of a proven fault.


Assuntos
Procedimentos Neurocirúrgicos/efeitos adversos , Procedimentos Ortopédicos/efeitos adversos , Coluna Vertebral/cirurgia , Bélgica , Humanos , Procedimentos Neurocirúrgicos/economia , Procedimentos Neurocirúrgicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Procedimentos Ortopédicos/economia , Procedimentos Ortopédicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/classificação , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/economia , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/epidemiologia , Medição de Risco
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Rev Med Brux ; 29(6): 546-51, 2008.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19202710

RESUMO

Bone cement has a central role in orthopaedic surgery. It is used with success in total joint replacement since years. Newer techniques such as vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty have been used during the last years. This article describes the chemical and mechanical properties of bone cement and will describe particularly his use in total hip arthroplasty and vertebropasty and kyphoplasty.


Assuntos
Cimentos Ósseos/uso terapêutico , Procedimentos Ortopédicos/métodos , Artroplastia de Quadril/métodos , Cimentos Ósseos/química , Fraturas do Fêmur/cirurgia , Humanos , Vertebroplastia/métodos
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Rev Med Brux ; 25(1): 40-6, 2004 Feb.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15053153

RESUMO

In terms of frequency, trochanteric fractures represent one of the most common problems in adult traumatology. Considering their physical and psychological consequences, and the patients mean age, they constitute one of the most acute public health problems faced by the elderly. Surgical reduction is currently considered as preferred treatment. Stable fixation of the fracture focus by osteosynthesis allows early mobilization of the treated member, central axis of the body. A series of 35 patients with a mean age of 78, surgically treated with Gotfried percutaneous plating between June 1998 and August 2000, have been followed-up to full fracture healing. The fractures were divided according to the AO fracture classification system. All patients were treated with this minimally invasive technique, which consists of introducing a percutaneous compression plate through two tiny stab incisions. The results take into account the reduction quality, mean hospital stay, evolution, perioperative and postoperative complications. The patients early weight bearing has been possible from the third day after the operation. The mean perioperative blood loss was estimated to 90 mL. The mean mortality rate during hospital stay was 5.7%, and 11.4% after three months. The complications encountered comprised two cephalic screw cutouts, two plate breakages and one surgical wound infection. Linked to the quality of the bone, regardless of the material used, these complications are likely to those observed with other methods. This short sample allows to consider the percutaneous compression plating as a valid surgical technique, though it can be opposed the same critics than other trochanteric fractures treatments. However, it offers the benefits of a closed and rapidly performed surgical technique, theoretically beneficial to improve the vital prognosis for this type of fracture.


Assuntos
Placas Ósseas , Fixação Interna de Fraturas , Fraturas do Quadril/cirurgia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Prospectivos
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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11088243

RESUMO

A three-dimensional model has been developed for the investigation of the coupling of symmetric (TM01) and asymmetric (HEM11) modes in a high-power, high-efficiency traveling-wave amplifier. In the framework of a simplified model it is shown that the coupling between these two modes is determined by a single parameter that depends on the beam characteristics. For a specific set of parameters corresponding to operation at 35 GHz, simulations indicate that an initial HEM11 power of 0.5 MW at the input end is sufficient to deflect electrons to the wall. The build-up of this parasitic mode is investigated over many round trips of the wave in the structure and a threshold criterion for self-sustain oscillation is established. Finally a way for suppressing the HEM11 mode is analyzed.

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Clin Mater ; 16(4): 217-21, 1994.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10150170

RESUMO

BOP (biocompatible osteoconductive polymer) is a material proposed for osteosyntheses and for filling of bone defects in orthopaedics, neurosurgery and stomatology. It is a composite made of a copolymer of N-vinylpyrrolidone and methylmethacrylate, of polyamide-6 fibers and of calcium gluconate. The histological investigation includes the study of 30 intact rabbit femurs instrumented with a BOP rod, as well as the study of organs of the reticuloendothelial system. The currently available results show the absence of toxicity on hematopoietic tissue. Zones of osteoblastic activity surround the rods, coupled with an osteoclastic reaction which may result in the partial fragmentation of the polyamide fibers and its incorporation in the newly formed bone. We also observed the encapsulation of the material. The biomechanical approach investigated the mechanical properties of the material in bending and in shear. The radiological aspects of the investigation consisted of computerized axial tomography of the implanted femurs to measure density at the bone-implant interface.


Assuntos
Gluconato de Cálcio/normas , Metilmetacrilatos/normas , Nylons/normas , Osseointegração , Pirrolidinonas/normas , Animais , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Teste de Materiais , Coelhos
11.
Clin Mater ; 17(1): 17-21, 1994.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10150173

RESUMO

One of the factors determining the stability of osteosynthesis is the mechanical strength of the bone fragments required for the anchorage of the implant. The aim is to study the driving of a Thornton nail in the proximal epiphysis of a human femur as a way to measure the strength of the trabecular bone and to predict the stability of the implanted system.


Assuntos
Pinos Ortopédicos/normas , Fixação Interna de Fraturas/métodos , Fraturas do Quadril/cirurgia , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Humanos , Teste de Materiais , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Falha de Prótese
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Acta Orthop Belg ; 59(1): 90-3, 1993.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8484330

RESUMO

This report describes a case of sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare pathology belonging to the group of presacral tumors. Its clinical presentation is very variable. In this case, the tumor presented as a pilonidal cyst, which is an atypical form. The teratoma was associated with a spinal malformation, described in 25% of all cases. It was treated by "en bloc" resection with sacrectomy.


Assuntos
Neoplasias Ósseas/cirurgia , Teratoma/cirurgia , Adulto , Neoplasias Ósseas/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Humanos , Seio Pilonidal/diagnóstico por imagem , Região Sacrococcígea , Teratoma/diagnóstico por imagem , Teratoma/patologia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
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Arch Gerontol Geriatr ; 3(4): 311-9, 1984 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-6532338

RESUMO

The factors influencing mortality and morbidity were analysed in a series of 224 elderly patients with hip fractures. It was found that mortality was influenced by the high age, the number of medical antecedents and the number of general complications occurring following surgery. Mortality rate was high in mentally deteriorated patients with a gain in autonomy in only 25% of the cases. On the contrary, mortality was less, and there were few modifications of the mental status in patients who were mentally normal upon admission. The recovery of total or partial autonomy in this group was 69.9%, justifying therefore the surgical intervention.


Assuntos
Fraturas do Fêmur/mortalidade , Fraturas do Quadril/mortalidade , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Feminino , Fraturas do Fêmur/cirurgia , Fraturas do Quadril/cirurgia , Humanos , Masculino , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/mortalidade , Qualidade de Vida , Risco
16.
Orthopedics ; 7(5): 845-50, 1984 May 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24822738

RESUMO

The absence of statistical studies concerning external fixation in adult forearm fractures prompted this prospective clinical study of 53 patients with 84 fractured bones treated by external elastic fixation, using a half-frame configuration. The radial nerve is the main anatomical obstacle to be considered. Whenever possible, closed methods of reduction are used. The rate of pseudarthrosis (6% of the treated bones) is comparable or even lower than the greatly varying figures published in the literature. External fixation seems capable of restoring and maintaining the precise anatomical configuration of the forearm bones.

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