PURPOSE: This study was to explore the level of health status, burnout, and burden of primary family caregivers of the elderly inpatients, and to identify the relations among the factors. METHOD: The subjects were a total of 232 primary family caregivers of elderly in-patients at K and E Medical Center, and were surveyed from March 1 to April 10, 2007. Measures were a health status measuring tool based on CMI developed by Brodman et al. (1945), the burnout measuring tool developed by Pines et al. (1981), and the burden measuring tool revised by Jung, Soo-Jin (1998). Data were analyzed by SPSS-WIN 12.0. RESULTS: Firstly, the mean of health status was 1.69, which means that they were mostly healthy, and the mean of burnout was 2.66, which means that they were a little burned out. The mean of burden was 2.71, which means that they were a little burdened. Second, there were high correlations between health status and burnout, between health status and burden, and between burnout and burden. Third, there were significant difference in health status and burnout according to sex and relationship, and in burden according to sex, education level and relationship. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses need to consider the characteristics, health status, burnout, and burden of primary family caregivers.
Aged* ; Burns ; Caregivers* ; Education ; Health Status ; Humans ; Inpatients

PURPOSE: The study was to get basic data on the well-being of middle-aged people concerning their preparation for their upcoming old age and their quality of life. METHODS: The subjects were 440 people aged between 40 and 59 living in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. RESULTS: First, physical preparation for old age was affected by religion, children, health, monthly income, and economical status, and these factors were shown statistically significant. Emotional preparation and spiritual preparation were also related to the above-mentioned factors. Secondly, in the subjects' mental picture, a nursing home was a place for the aged without anyone who is going to take care of them and without abilities to care of themselves. Preference for nursing home was based on two factors, i.e., nursing and treatment care, and the cost was about one million won per month. Also they wanted that the government should pay a certain amount for private users. CONCLUSION: Therefore, people should lead a life of good health-related habits along with economical preparation for their old age.
Child ; Gyeonggi-do ; Humans ; Long-Term Care* ; Nursing ; Nursing Homes ; Quality of Life ; Seoul

OBJECTIVES: It has been known that the contents of dreams change according to neuro-developmental differences in sex, progression of age and various environments, unlike the established psychoanalytic theory. To investigate the changes, we collected "most recent dream report" and analyzed the contents of dreams by using Hall/Van de Castle System. METHOD: Most recent dream reports were gathered from age 12-14 years old, 2,673 middle school students (1,544 male 1,129 female) and analyzed those reports using Hall/Van de Castle System. The data were sorted in SAS and dream SAT. RESULT: There were prominent differences between male and female middle school students in Male/Female Percentage (male/female; 56%/35%), Familiarity Percentage (57%/69%), Aggression/Friendliness Percentage (79%/65%), Befriender Percentage (50%/33%), Physical Aggression Percentage (90%/70%), Indoor Setting Percentage (40%/55%), Negative Emotion Percentage (56%/68%) and Torso/Anatomy Percentage (51%/36%). There were significant differences in Male/Female Percentage (65%/44%), Friendliness, Physical Aggression and Self Negativity Percentage in male and there were significant differences in Friendliness, Familiarity and Friends Percent in female between 1st and 2nd grade. But, it showed much similar dream patterns between 2nd and 3rd grade in both gender. In male, Aggression/Character Index with male character is significantly increased by 2nd grade (1st/ 2nd/ 3rd; 0.48/1.04/0.98), In female, Friendliness/Character Index with male character had significantly decreased by 2nd grade (0.38/0.19/0.20). CONCLUSION: There were apparent differences between age 12-14 years old male and female. Male adolescents have differences mostly in categories related with aggression, but female adolescents have differences in categories related with environment or character. It shows that developmental level of male are slower than female as of yet and male needs more active interpersonal relationship to find identity. Otherwise, the influences of passive attitude and actual circumferential environment are reflected in female's dream. There are no prominent differences among ages, but age 12-13 years old adolescents shows significant differences in interacting with the other gender. It means that circumferential environment and interpersonal relationship affect the contents of dreams and also the cognitive development related to age and sex. Afterwards, the development of dreams could be better understood through the neurocognitive study and dream analysis between other ages and nations.
Adolescent* ; Aggression ; Dreams* ; Female ; Friends ; Humans ; Male ; Psychoanalytic Theory ; Recognition (Psychology)

WPW syndrome is the most common variaty of preexcitaton syndrome in which whole or part of ventricular muscle is activated by the atrial impulse earlier than would be expected if the impulse reached the ventricle by way of normal conduction system alone. WPW syndrome result from existence of accessory muscle bridge(atrio ventricular connection) between atrium and ventricle. The ventricular complex observed in WPW syndrome during periods of sinus rhythm is the result of fusion, with intial phase of ventricular activation representing excitation via accessory pathway and later forces produced by excitation of residual portions of ventricle via normal His-purkinje system. The variations in QRS aberrancy in WPW syndrome depend on varying degree of preexcitation. This experimental study was undertaken to increase our knowledge on the ventricular fusion in WPW syndrome through epicardial mapping after experimental induction of ventricular preexcitaion of WPW type. In 5 normal dogs, the heart was widely exposed through transverse thoracotomy and positioned in a pericardial cradle, then electric wires were fixed on the epicardium of right atrium and ventricular bases(anterobasal and posterobasal) areas of right ventricle, anterobasal and poaterobasal areas of left ventricle for atrial and ventricular pacing. Epicardial mapping was then performed during atrial pacing alone and during atrioventricular sequential pacing at the same rate. Atrioventricular sequential pacing was done with various short AV intervals(60-110 msec) for the purpose of premature stimulation on ventricular base. In mapping we used the grid system which consisted of 29 areas to cover the right ventricle and 23 areas to cover the left ventricle. We drew 9 epicardial ishochrone maps in 5 dogs. The epicardial data during atrio-ventriclar sequential pacing were then compared with those during atrial pacing at an identical rate to study the ventricular fusion in WPW syndrome. The results were as follows; 1) The preexciting wave spread radially from the stimulated basal area to the right and left(or anterior and posterior wall) and the apex. 2) Preexciting wavefronts collided with the normal wavefronts in a wide range of ventricular activation time. 3) Preexcitation widened according to the degree of the shortening of the AV interval. 4) The duration of ventricular activation was greater in preexcited ventricles than in normally activated ventricles. The more prematurely the ventricle was stimulated, the greater the duration of ventricular activation was.
Animals ; Dogs ; Epicardial Mapping ; Heart ; Heart Atria ; Heart Ventricles ; Pericardium ; Thoracotomy ; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome*

A 31-year-old woman admitted because of fever, chilling and sore throat for 4 days. The symptom was developed after receiving methimazole 20mg per day and carteolol 10mg per day due to Graves disease during last 4 weeks. Physical examination revealed hyperemic enlarged tonsils with whitish plaque. The peripheral blood total neutrophil count was 1,400/mm3 (absolute neutrophil count, ANC 36) and a peripheral blood smear revealed rare neutrophil with lymphocytosis. On the first day of hospitalization, the patient was severely ill with ANC 0, it was decided to administer G-CSF 2ug/kg daily. On the fifth day of hospitalization, ANC in peripheral blood count was persistently zero and bone marrow aspiration and biopsy were performed, which revealed hypocellularity and myeloid hypoplasia. G-CSF given daily for 7days, it was discontinued when the ANC reached 1,539/mm3. The availability of G-CSF may help to shorten the course of agranulocytosis and to reduce its mortality rate.
Adult ; Agranulocytosis* ; Biopsy ; Bone Marrow ; Carteolol ; Colony-Stimulating Factors* ; Female ; Fever ; Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor* ; Granulocytes* ; Graves Disease ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Lymphocytosis ; Methimazole* ; Mortality ; Neutrophils ; Palatine Tonsil ; Pharyngitis ; Physical Examination

PURPOSE: To analyze the stress distribution of the implant and its supporting structures through 3D finite elements analysis for implants with different hexagon heights and to make the assessment of the mechanical stability and the effect of the elements. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Infinite elements modeling with CAD data was designed. The modeling was done as follows; an external connection type Phi 4.0 mm x11.5 mm Osste(R) USII (Osstem Co., Pusan, Korea) implant system was used, the implant was planted in the mandibular first molar region with appropriate prosthetic restoration, the hexagon (implant fixture's external connection) height of 0.0, 0.7, 1.2, and 1.5 mm were applied. ABAQUS 6.4 (ABAQUS, Inc., Providence, USA) was used to calculate the stress value. The force distribution via color distribution on each experimental group's implant fixture and titanium screw was studied based on the equivalent stress (von Mises stress). The maximum stress level of each element (crown, implant screw, implant fixture, cortical bone and cancellous bone) was compared. RESULTS: The hexagonal height of the implant with external connection had an influence on the stress distribution of the fixture, screw and upper prosthesis and the surrounding supporting bone. As the hexagon height increased, the stress was well distributed and there was a decrease in the maximum stress value. If the height of the hexagon reached over 1.2 mm, there was no significant influence on the stress distribution. CONCLUSION: For implants with external connections, a hexagon is vital for stress distribution. As the height of the hexagon increased, the more effective stress distribution was observed.
Dental Implants ; Molar ; Plants ; Prostheses and Implants ; Titanium

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the correlation of the subjective and the objective evaluation of edentulous ridge bone quality, and to evaluate the change of the dental implant stability in each bone density group for early healing period after implant installation. METHODS:Sixty-seven implants(Osstem implant(R), Seoul, Korea) were included in this study. We evaluated the bone density by 2 methods. The one was the subjective method which was determined by practitioner's tactile sense, the other was the objective bone type was based on Hounsfield units. The implant stability in each bone type group was assessed by resonance frequency analyzer(Osstell mentor(R)). Data were analyzed for the change of the implant stability, and they were compared to verify the difference of groups at the time of installation, 2, 6, 10, 14 weeks postoperatively. Spearman's correlation was used to demonstrate the correlation between the subjective and the objective evaluation of the bone density, and analysis of variance(ANOVA) was used to analyze the differences of implant stability at each time point. RESULTS: There was no close relation between the subjective and the objective evaluation of the bone density(r=0.57). In the subjective groups, there was statistically significant difference between the type 1 and 3 at 10 weeks and between the type 2 and 3 at 14 weeks. In the objective groups, there was no statistically significant difference between the D 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 group with regard to RFA from baseline to 14 weeks(p>0.1). CONCLUSIONS: The implant stability increased over time during the study, and it was improved with bone density proportionally after 2weeks postoperatively. It is recommended that the decision of bone density is base on Hounsfield unit for implant loading time.
Bone Density ; Dental Implants ; Osseointegration

Vitamin D is an important hormone that can be a role of bone and calcium metabolism in the human organ. Thus, vitamin D deficiency could contribute to the severity of metabolic bone disease. The osteomalacia, one of the metabolic bone diseases, is the softening of the bones caused by defective bone mineralization secondary to inadequate amounts of available phosphorus and calcium. We experienced a case of osteomalacia presented with walking disturbance, 30 year-old young aged man, caused by vitamin D deficiency due to strict vegetarian diet and lack of sunlight exposures.
Aged ; Bone Diseases, Metabolic ; Calcification, Physiologic ; Calcium ; Diet, Vegetarian ; Humans ; Male ; Osteomalacia ; Phosphorus ; Sunlight ; Vitamin D ; Vitamin D Deficiency ; Walking ; Young Adult

Simultaneoulsy carpometacarpal fracture and dislocation is known to be uncommon past days. But Fisher1 reported that it is quite common injury of hand in 1984. Also high energy injury causes carpometacarpal joint fracture and dislocation, the result of treatment has wide spectrum of prognosis, so early diagnosis and treatment is essential. We reported 2 patients who had the fourth and fifth carpometacarpal fracture and dislocation.
Carpometacarpal Joints ; Dislocations ; Early Diagnosis ; Hand ; Humans ; Prognosis

Animals ; Bone and Bones ; Dogs ; Finite Element Analysis ; Mandible ; Osseointegration ; Osteogenesis