It has been well established that the kidney is the main organ producing erythropoietin (E.S.F.). Erythropoietin activity was reported to be increased in cases of renal tumor. cyst, polycystic disease and hydronephrosis. To study erythropoietic activity in hydronephrosis and renal cell carcinoma, erythropoietin bioassay by DeGowin method were performed in 7cases of hydronephrosis and renal cell carcinoma. Erythropoietin activity is significantly increased in renal cell carcinoma but not significantly increasedin hydronephrosis.
Biological Assay* ; Carcinoma, Renal Cell* ; Erythropoietin* ; Hydronephrosis* ; Kidney

PURPOSE: To identify the effects of workplace bullying of hospital nurses on the quality of nursing service and to investigate the moderating effects of professional self-concept in the relationship between workplace bullying and quality of nursing service. METHODS: The participants in this study were 280 nurses working in hospitals located in J Province. Data were collected from December 20, 2016, to January 20, 2017. A self-administered structured questionnaire was used. Data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 22.0 statistical program. RESULTS: Workplace bullying had significant negative correlations with professional self-concept and nursing service quality. There was a significant positive correlation between professional self-concept and nursing service quality. Professional self-concept was the only variable to show a moderating effect in the relationship between the outcome of workplace bullying and quality of nursing service (β=−.12, p=.023). CONCLUSION: The findings from this study suggest building a systematic strategy to prevent workplace bullying at the organizational-level, where it threatens quality of nursing service and developing programs to promote professional self-concept, which can control the negative effect of workplace bullying.
Bullying ; Nursing Services ; Nursing

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Dacryocystorhinostomy*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine gender differences in effects of self-efficacy, exercise benefits and barriers, and demographic factors on the physical activity. METHODS: Seventy sedentary office workers, 35 male and 35 female, from a major airline company, completed a questionnaire from March 28 to April 5, 2012. Steps and body mass indices were measured using a CW-700/701 (Yamax) pedometer and Inbody 720 (Biospace), respectively. Data were analyzed using t-test, chi2-test, multiple linear regression, and simultaneous quantile regression. RESULTS: For male workers, exercise self-efficacy had a significant effect on physical activity, but only when respondents were at 10%(3,431 steps/day, p=.018) and 25%(4,652 steps/day, p=.044) of the physical activity distribution. For female workers, marital status was significantly related to physical activity, but only when respondents were at 10% (3,537 steps/day, p=.013) and 25%(3,862 steps/day, p=.014) of the physical activity distribution. CONCLUSION: Quantile regression highlights the heterogeneous effect of physical activity determinants among office workers. Therefore intervention strategies for increasing physical activity should be tailed to genders as well as physical activity levels.
Surveys and Questionnaires ; Demography ; Female ; Humans ; Linear Models ; Male ; Marital Status ; Motor Activity*

Tibial nonunion is often associated with the soft tissue atrophy and the local circulatory disturbance, so it is important to minimize the soft tissue injury and maintain the stability at fracture site for bone union. We reviewed 29 cases of subcortical onlay bone grafts and plate fixations for the nonunion and delayed union of tibial shafts, from Jan. 1988 through Jan. 1994. The results were as follows. 1. Twenty-nine patients who had nonunion of the tibia underwent subcortical cancellous onlay bone graft and plating, and 28 fractures(96.6%) went on to union. 2. Subcortical elevation or shingling of cortical bone fragments of the tibial cortex, is advocated to provide sound biological condition in atrophic soft tissue envelope. 3. Narrow DCP encouraged early motion and reliably promoted obtaining anatomical alignment. So, in treatment of protracted tibial nonunion, especially in an area with deficient soft tissue or unyielding scar tissue, subcortical onlay bone graft and plate fixation is very useful method, result in good union and no skin problem.
Atrophy ; Cicatrix ; Humans ; Inlays ; Methods ; Skin ; Soft Tissue Injuries ; Tibia ; Transplants

No abstract available.
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Liver*

Respiratory pump failure is a condition which the respiratory system can not meet the metabolic demand because of the inability of respiratory muscles to ventilate the lungs without any pulmonary pathology. Two cases of respiratory pump failure(myasthenia gravis and Guillian-Barre syndrome) had been treated with controlled and assisted ventilation using the Bennet MA II ventilator. Large tidal volume with high peak flow rate was given to permit leakage of gases during inspiration when the patients were ventilated with CMV with asaistance. This made the patients capable of communicating with persons by phonation which was the greatest advanage of this mode of assisted ventilation.
Gases ; Humans ; Lung ; Pathology ; Phonation ; Respiratory Muscles ; Respiratory System ; Tidal Volume ; Ventilation ; Ventilators, Mechanical

Of the 166 cases of suspected cosmetic contact dermatitis, 92 showed positive reactions to one or more of the allergens of the commercial test kits or patients, own coametics by patch test. Tincture of benzoin, ammoniated mercury, cinnamic alcohol and benzyl salicylate were the most commonly identified agents. By product category, skin care produts dominated as the cause of the cosmetic conact dermatitis. However, it was suspected that the most common sensitizer may be present in the eye-make up preparations. The positive rate of foreign cosmetics was more than 2 fold higher than the domestic ones.
Allergens ; Benzoin ; Dermatitis ; Dermatitis, Contact* ; Humans ; Patch Tests* ; Skin Care

PURPOSE: To develop and psychometrically test the Korean version of the Cultural Competence Scale for Nurses (K-CCSN). METHODS: A multi-phase questionnaire development method was used to develop the scale from November 2012 to April 2013. The item pool was generated based on literature review, existing scales and in-depth interviews. The content validity was evaluated twice by an expert panel. The scale validation was conducted with a convenience sample of 456 general hospital nurses recruited from five general hospitals and a nursing college in the Seoul Metropolitan Area of South Korea. The construct-related and criterion-related validity and internal consistency reliability of the scale were tested. RESULTS: The 33-item K-CCSN comprised four subscalesdcultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity and cultural skillsdexplaining 53.96% of the total variance. The criterion-related validity was supported by a known-group comparison. The reliability analysis showed an acceptable-to-high Cronbach's alpha in total and for subscales ranging from .879 to .932. CONCLUSION: This preliminary evaluation of psychometric scale properties demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability. The K-CCSN is able to provide scientific and empirical data regarding the cultural competence of clinical nurses. However, further studies are needed to test the applicability of the scale in different settings and contexts.
Adult ; *Cultural Competency ; Culturally Competent Care/*standards ; Humans ; *Nursing Staff, Hospital ; Psychometrics/*standards ; Questionnaires ; Reproducibility of Results ; Republic of Korea ; *Students, Nursing

Safety for both mother and infant is an imperative element in anesthesia for cesarean section, and ketamine has been widely used in obstetrical anesthesia especially for analgesis for normal vagianl delivery. Small doses of ketamins(0.2~0.5mg/kg) provides satisfactory analgesia during delivery without significant marternal and fetal complications. We added nitrous oxide to the small dose of ketamine and applied it to the induction of anesthesia for cesarean section and the results were compared with those of thiopental. A small dose of ketamine with nitrous oxide may be superior to an ordinary dose of thiopental, in the effects on the maternal cardiovascular system and the Apgar score of the fetus although the Apgar score only is not sufficient to evaluate neonatal condition.
Analgesia ; Anesthesia* ; Anesthesia, Obstetrical ; Apgar Score ; Cardiovascular System ; Cesarean Section* ; Female ; Fetus ; Humans ; Infant ; Ketamine* ; Mothers ; Nitrous Oxide ; Pregnancy ; Thiopental