1.The Development of Korean Nursing Alternative.
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 1999;29(6):1403-1418
Nursing is a discipline that helps to understand human being, to mitigate pains in life by promoting and recovering health, and to study the basic principles in sustaining and preserving life. To understand man and thus to nurse, it is essential to take the way of life of the specific person, his/her ideas, and natural environment into consideration. This means, the temperament, geography, environment and society peculiar to Korea have formed its own culture distinguished from those of other people. Thoughts and philosophy develop as a products of the specific culture and society. Therefore, accurate understanding of the concepts of nursing in the traditional thoughts and philosophy is indispensible to define Korean nursing. Modern Korean nursing at first rooted in the westernized nursing and western nursing intervention has been applied ever since its introduction in the late 19th century under the paradigm of western natural science. However, Koreans in the past made use of alternative therapy which put its emphasis on the organic and holistic view of life as well as a means for traditional medicine and nursing. This alternative therapy has been largely ignored since the introduction of western medical science, and was considered something used only by the aged or the uneducated. Moreover, Health concerned practices and customary traditional therapy have been discarded in the clinical medicine as "unscientific" or "unsystematic". As described above, it is true that Korean nursing has developed in the quantitative aspect only adhering to western nursing intervention. Now it is the time to stop to hold ourself and to look back our past. To find and develop the originality of Korean nursing to cope with the globalization, it is necessary to rediscover nursing (alternative) therapy in Korean culture ignored so far. For this purpose, this study examines the oriental philosophy to explore alternative nursing theory now under development. Also it aims to present ways to apply alternative therapy to nursing education, research and clinical practices and ultimately to show the desirable direction of the nursing to go in the future. Yangsaeng theory of Taoism and Yin-yang, Oh-hang(five elements) and khi theory in Dongeuibogam which gave enormous influences on Korean medical culture and treatment together with Sahsang(four temperaments) emphasized in Dongeuisusebowon will be examined as conceptual framework. Concepts of nursing are categorized into views on each the universe, the human being and nursing. Views on human being is classified into subcategories of body, life, health, and disease. Also it emphasizes the necessity of including alternative therapy in nursing intervention. Views on the universe is classified into yin-yang, khi, and temperament. Nursing will be available anywhere and easily accessible with this new nursing intervention. Trying to give a new thoughts to all those traditional concepts and alternative therapy, this article suggests the necessity of developing original Korean nursing theory and nursing intervention.
Clinical Medicine
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Education, Nursing
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Geography
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Humans
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Internationality
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Korea
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Medicine, Traditional
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Natural Science Disciplines
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Nursing Theory
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Nursing*
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Philosophy
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Religious Philosophies
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Temperament
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Yin-Yang
2.Interpretation of screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia in preterm infants.
Hye Rim CHUNG ; Choong Ho SHIN ; Sei Won YANG ; Kyong Ah YUN ; Young Ah LEE ; So Eun PARK ; Chang Won CHOI ; Byung Il KIM ; Jung Hwan CHOI ; Junghan SONG
Korean Journal of Pediatrics 2008;51(6):616-621
PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to identify factors that influence 17-OHP levels in preterm infants and to suggest a reasonable follow-up schedule of screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in preterm infants. METHODS: The 17-OHP concentrations in filter paper blood spots of 427 preterm infants were obtained. The effects of gestational age (GA), systemic diseases, and antenatal dexamethasone on screening and follow-up 17-OHP values were investigated. RESULTS: The screening 17-OHP values were markedly variable (range: 0.1-143.3 ng/mL). The screening 17-OHP levels were negatively correlated with GA (r=-0.535, P<0.01). In infants with GA <32 weeks, the screening 17-OHP levels were significantly higher in sick infants or infant with hypotension than in healthy infants. The screening values of prenatal dexamethasone-treated infants had a tendency to be low. In infants with initial 17-OHP values > or =20 ng/mL, the intervals until rescreening 17-OHP <10 ng/mL or serum 17-OHP <20 ng/mL were negatively correlated with GA (r=-0.541, P<0.01) and were prolonged in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (P<0.01). None of the preterm infants were confirmatively diagnosed with CAH. CONCLUSION: The 17-OHP values of preterm infants were influenced by GA, prenatal dexamethasone, and postnatal diseases. Because the 17-OHP vlues of preterm infants were markedly variable, a follow-up schedule should be developed considering both 17-OHP values and clinical status.
Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
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Appointments and Schedules
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Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
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Dexamethasone
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Follow-Up Studies
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Gestational Age
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Humans
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Hypotension
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
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Infant, Premature
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Mass Screening
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Neonatal Screening
3.Single port–assisted diverting ileostomy formation for anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection
Kyong-Min KANG ; Heung-Kwon OH ; Hong-min AHN ; Hye-Rim SHIN ; Min-Hyeong JO ; Mi-Jeong CHOI ; Duck-Woo KIM ; Sung-Bum KANG
Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery 2025;28(1):47-49
Stoma formation for fecal diversion is a common procedure in patients with various complicated conditions after colorectal surgery, such as anastomotic leakage. The singleincision laparoscopic approach for stoma creation offers several advantages, including a reduction in surgical wounds and related complications as well as optimal visualization of the surgical field. This video demonstrates a single-port–assisted diverting ileostomy in a 61-yearold man with anastomotic leakage following low anterior resection for advanced rectal cancer.
4.Single port–assisted diverting ileostomy formation for anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection
Kyong-Min KANG ; Heung-Kwon OH ; Hong-min AHN ; Hye-Rim SHIN ; Min-Hyeong JO ; Mi-Jeong CHOI ; Duck-Woo KIM ; Sung-Bum KANG
Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery 2025;28(1):47-49
Stoma formation for fecal diversion is a common procedure in patients with various complicated conditions after colorectal surgery, such as anastomotic leakage. The singleincision laparoscopic approach for stoma creation offers several advantages, including a reduction in surgical wounds and related complications as well as optimal visualization of the surgical field. This video demonstrates a single-port–assisted diverting ileostomy in a 61-yearold man with anastomotic leakage following low anterior resection for advanced rectal cancer.
5.Single port–assisted diverting ileostomy formation for anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection
Kyong-Min KANG ; Heung-Kwon OH ; Hong-min AHN ; Hye-Rim SHIN ; Min-Hyeong JO ; Mi-Jeong CHOI ; Duck-Woo KIM ; Sung-Bum KANG
Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery 2025;28(1):47-49
Stoma formation for fecal diversion is a common procedure in patients with various complicated conditions after colorectal surgery, such as anastomotic leakage. The singleincision laparoscopic approach for stoma creation offers several advantages, including a reduction in surgical wounds and related complications as well as optimal visualization of the surgical field. This video demonstrates a single-port–assisted diverting ileostomy in a 61-yearold man with anastomotic leakage following low anterior resection for advanced rectal cancer.
6.Cranial-first approach for laparoscopic extended right hemicolectomy
Kyong-Min KANG ; Heung-Kwon OH ; Hong-Min AHN ; Tae-Gyun LEE ; Hye-Rim SHIN ; Mi-Jeong CHOI ; Duck-Woo KIM ; Sung-Bum KANG
Annals of Coloproctology 2024;40(3):282-284
Complete mesocolic excision and central vascular ligation with D3 lymphadenectomy are important surgical principles for improving oncological outcomes in colon cancer. The cranial-first approach is a colonic mobilization–first approach to radical right hemicolectomy, which has several advantages, including early feasibility assessment, safe dissection from surrounding organs, preestablished inferior margin of lymph node dissection, and revelation of the tangible anatomy of the tributaries of the gastrocolic trunk. This video demonstrates the cranial-first approach to radical right hemicolectomy in a 66-year-old man with locally advanced cecal cancer.