1.A report on 8 years of activities of a student organization promoting advanced cardiac life support techniques at Keio University
Kazuma Kobayashi ; Yuichi Tamura ; Keita Hayashi ; Waki Segami ; Yuichiro Ohta ; Kenta Kawasaki ; Kiyotaka Yasui ; Motoyasu Yamazaki ; Michito Hirakata ; Takahiro Amano ; Haruo Kashima ; Shingo Hori
Medical Education 2011;42(6):347-350
1)The Keio ACLS Popularizing and Promoting Association (KAPPA) is an official student organization that promotes advanced life support techniques.
2)KAPPA has provided 29 advanced cardiac life support courses, including 20 official ICLS (immediate cardiac life support) courses of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, which have trained 314 ICLS providers and 61 ICLS instructors during the past 8 years.
3)Peer–led training among students to maintain the quality of the courses has contributed to the activities of KAPPA.
2.Perturbation of secretory Ig A in saliva and its daily variation by academic stress.
Zhong-Qiu GUO ; Takemi OTSUKI ; Yasuhisa ISHI ; Aya INAGAKI ; Youichiro KAWAKAMI ; Yuki HISANO ; Riichiro YAMASHITA ; Kenta WANI ; Haruko SAKAGUCHI ; Satoshi TSUJITA ; Kaneshisa MORIMOTO ; Ayako UEKI
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2002;6(4):268-272
OBJECTIVESSeveral studies have reported that the secretory immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) concentration in saliva is an indicator of psychological stress. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between S-IgA and the stress from academic examinations.
METHODSS-IgA levels in 10 medical student volunteers from the second year course between May 4 and July 13, 2000 were examined using the ELISA method.
RESULTSThere was a tendency for S-IgA in saliva to be higher on the day before academic examinations and during them, and lower on the days between these examinations.
CONCLUSIONSIt may be possible to use this measurement to monitor psychological stress in students and workers.
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