[Semiautomatic defibrillators at the workplace health service]. / I defibrillatori semiautomatici nel servizio sanitario aziendale.

Implementation of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in workplace can help to revive victims of sudden cardiac arrest. The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American Heart Association have all issued guidelines for medical management of AED programs. The School of Occupational Health-University of Bari--is currently involved in a programme to be developed with the regional 118 emergency team and the Health Department of Region Apulia aiming at establishing a well controlled use of AED in the workplace.

[Fatiguing work, aging and health: a cross-sectional study of a group of anesthesiologists]. / Lavoro usurante, invecchiamento e salute: studio trasversale in un gruppo di anestesisti.

A cross-sectional study was carried out to verify if work as an anaesthetician-reanimator can be considered as a fatiguing job. An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was utilized to obtain information about the general characteristics of the subjects, job organization, human relations, perceived risks and previous diseases; 1438 questionnaires were examined. The results of the study showed that in anaesthetist-reanimator: organic diseases do not occur earlier than expected; perception of the emotional aspects related to the particular occupation is low; the group relationships are difficult, on both horizontal and vertical levels, and these difficulties increase work-stress and hinder its management; age influences the occurrence of both arthritic and stress-related diseases; there is an association between jobs dissatisfaction and stress disorders; all the causal variables considered, evaluated as a group, constitute a heavy physical load, that leads to risk of stress related diseases.