Building of medical teams was a basic preparation for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games as well. In this consideration, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) and Beijing Health Bureau developed a complete set of mechanism to integrate human resources, coveting standards development, selection, training and testing for members of medical teams. This ensures the success of medical services delivery and provides medical services delivery of subsequent Large-scale activities with valuable experiences as well

An insight of the building and operation of the medical rescue and assurance system for Beijing Olympic Games will help identify effective practices for design and implementation of medical rescue plans in large-scale activities held in cities. Practice-proven: large-scale activities call for systems designed in view of characteristics of medical assurance tasks of such events, and such systems must be improved all the way. Keys to operations of Olympic venues in the run-up period are setup of medical services, development of general medical procedures, management of medical teams in venues, and design of medical rescue flows. Focuses of venue operations during the games are reporting of medical information from the venues, seamless interconnection between venues and medical organizations in the city, and crisis management for medical operations on the venues.

ObjectiveTo compare the efficacy and tolerability of 1-week 1％ terbinafine hydrochloride cream, 1- and 4-week 2％ miconazole nitrate cream in the treatment of interdigital tinea pedis, and to observe the relapse in patients treated with these regimens. MethodsA multi-center, randomized, double-blind and parallel group study was conducted. By using a stratified randomization protocol, patients were divided into 3 groups to apply terbinafine cream twice daily for 1 week and inert cream(placebo) for the next 3 weeks (1week terbinafine group), miconazole cream twice daily for 1 week and inert cream(placebo) for the next 3 weeks (1-week miconazole group), and miconazole cream twice daily for 4 weeks (4-week miconazole group),respectively. Clinical and mycological assessment was made on week 1, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 12 after the initiation of treatment. ResultsA total of 152 patients with positive baseline mycological culture were eligible for the efficacy analysis. After 4-week treatment, the mycological cure rates were 94.7％, 87.8％ and 82.6％, global effective rates 89.5％, 81.6％ and 63.0％, respectively for the 1-week terbinafine group, 4-week miconazole group and 1-week miconazole group. On week 12, the mycological relapse rates in 1-week terbinafine, 4-week miconazole and 1-week miconazole group were 13％, 14％ and 21％ respectively, and the incidence of adverse reaction was 2.38％, 2.38％ and 3.57％, respectively. ConclusionsAs far as the efficacy and recurrence in patients are concerned, the 1-week terbinafine cream regimen is similar to the 4-week miconazole cream regimen for the treatment of interdigital tinea pedis.