Study: 57.8% of healthcare professionals suffered mental disorders during COVID-19 first wave
A study on 149 healthcare professionals in Spain and Mexico reveals that, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, 57.8% of them suffered from mental disorders such as anxiety, acute stress and depression.
This is stated in the doctoral thesis of Iván Echeverria, a doctoral student at CEU Cardenal Herrera University, whose research has just been published in the scientific journal
International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The results indicate that the moral courage shown by healthcare professionals to face the first wave was one of the factors that increased the risk of suffering from mental illness.
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Horsetalk.co.nz Study to cast light on risks of general anaesthesia and standing sedation in horses
Horses are 10 times more likely to die from anaesthesia than the likes of cats and dogs. Researchers, in a worldwide initiative, are gathering data that can be used to help lower the risk.
Veterinary staff who specialise in anaesthesia and analgesia at Scotland’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies are leading the study, dubbed the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities (CEPEF4). Its focus is equine mortality associated with general anaesthesia and standing sedation.
Anaesthetists and equine clinicians around the world are being invited to participate through an online questionnaire, through which they can provide information on horses undergoing general anaesthesia and standing sedation.
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Novel dural puncture-sealing device decreases cerebrospinal fluid leakage
These leaks could be the cause of strong headaches that can last weeks, delaying recovery following an intervention with this anesthetic technique or making it more difficult for the mother to care for her child following childbirth with an epidural.
Epidural anesthesia is a technique that requires great accuracy to avoid accidentally puncturing the dura matter, one of the three meninx that protect the central nervous system. The cerebrospinal fluid, which feeds the nervous system, is located under the dura mater. Leaks of this fluid can cause strong headaches that can be crippling and delay the recovery following an intervention with this anesthetic technique. They are especially severe in women who suffer this complication after receiving an epidural while giving birth.