1.A Study on the Pre-hospital Emergency Care in workplace through the Analysis of Fatal Work-place Injuries.
Sang Do SHIN ; Jeong Youn KIM ; Jung Soon KIM
Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2000;12(4):483-493
OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to evaluate the problems of pre-hospital Emergency medical care system (EMS) in workplace. We analysed 25 fatal work-place injuries during the recent 4 years and the work-place EMS of 8 enterprises located in Masan-city, Changwon-city and Kuje-island. METHODS: The safety managers and the members of Dept. of safety in the labor unions were interviewed about the work-place EMS. And we investigated on the injury reports, the work-place medical-room records and the medical records of emergency center for fatal 25 cases. RESULTS: The enterprises had the at-risk machines and processes, volatile materials and high-altitude working processes. There were duty doctors in only 3 enterprises but a few duty nurses or health-care providers in the others. The time spent for the education to the workers on safety was 24hrs/yr in 3 enterprises in 1998 but less than Bhrs in the others. There were medical service center in all enterprises but the ambulances in three. The time for activation of the ambulance was ranging from 5 minutes to 10 minutes in 6 enterprises, and from 10 minutes to 30 minutes in two. The patient transportation to the emergency center was possible within 30 minutes in all enterprises but there were no equipments for airway maintenance and shock management in all enterprises. The 15 (60%) fatal injuries were occurred at one enterprise. The 64% of casualties had the duration of job-employment more than 10yrs and the 68% were suffered the typical type of work-place injury as descending injuries, collisions and falls. Most of all primary calls for rescue were concentrated on the fire-service agencies. But in 85% of fatal injtories, the tome for the activation of ambulance was more than 10 minutes and no emergency care was taken in the field in 48 percent of casualtles. The transportation time to the emergency center was more than 30 minutes in 50 percent. It toolk from injury to death was less than one hour in the 40 percent of all cases, and from one hour to four in the 50 percent. The causes of death in the 68 percent were the head-and-neck injuries or thoracic injuries. CONCLUSIONS: We found that there was Insufficiency of the education associated with work-place injury for workers, manpower and facilities, equipments related to the work-place EMS, the problems of the delay in transportation system.
Ambulances
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Cause of Death
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Education
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Emergencies*
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Emergency Medical Services*
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Humans
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Labor Unions
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Medical Records
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Shock
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Thoracic Injuries
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Transportation
2.Two cases of renal vein thrombosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Sang Heon LEE ; Young Shin SHIN ; Ji Youn HAN ; Jae Kyung CHOI ; Seung Hun LEE ; Youn Sik HONG ; Chul Soo CHO ; Dong Jun PARK ; Ho Youn KIM
Korean Journal of Medicine 1993;45(3):376-382
No abstract available.
Humans
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Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic*
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Renal Veins*
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Thrombosis*
3.Comparison of clinical efficacy between acitretin and etretinate in psoriasis.
Sang Eun MOON ; Bang Soon KIM ; Jai Il YOUN ; Yoo Shin LEE
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1992;30(3):354-361
Etretinate, an effective retinoid in the treatment of pustular, erythrodermic and chronic plaque type psoriasis, has the disadvantage of a long terminal elimination half-life. On the other hand, acitretin, the active metabolite of etretinate, has much shorter terminal elimination half-life and is being reported as an agent with good antipsoriatic activity by several authors. To evaluate the clinical efficacy of acitret.in in comparison with etretinate, we treated 10 patients wit,h acitretin at a dose of 30mg per day and 11 patients with etretinate at a same dose for 12 weeks. The PASI score at 12 week was significantly reduced in each group as compared with baseline PASI score. In the acitretin treated group the initial PASI score of 14.5 reduced to 3.9, while the etretinate group PASI score reduced from 12.0 to 3.1. The PASI score differ ences between the acitretin and etretinate groups at each time during therapy and the end of therapy were not statistically significant. The severity of adverse reactions with acitretin was similar to those with etretinate but their incidence was higher. The change in laboratory parameters in the acitretin group was simlar to that of the etretinate group. In view of these results and the known pharmacokinetic advantage of acitretin, that is the short terminal elimination half-life, it is conceivable that acitretin may be a useful alternative to etretinate in the treatment of psoriasis.
Acitretin*
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Etretinate*
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Half-Life
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Hand
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Humans
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Incidence
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Psoriasis*
4.A Case of Acanthosis Nigricans Induced by Growth Hormone Therapy.
Chan Ho NA ; Sang Ho YOUN ; Min Sung KIM ; Bong Seok SHIN
Korean Journal of Dermatology 2016;54(3):222-223
No abstract available.
Acanthosis Nigricans*
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Growth Hormone*
5.The Efficacy of Additional Intravenous Patient-controlled Analgesia to the Interscalene Block in Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study.
Sang Jin SHIN ; Myeong Jae SEO ; Youn Jin KIM ; Hee Jung BAIK
Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow 2017;20(1):10-17
BACKGROUND: The purpose is to determine the efficacy of additional intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV-PCA) by comparing the analgesic effects between interscalene block (ISB) combined with IV-PCA and single ISB after arthroscopic shoulder surgery. METHODS: A total of 213 patients who underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery were divided into two groups based on the type of perioperative anesthesia. The single ISB group included 100 patients, while the IV-PCA group included 113 patients. The visual analogue scale for pain (VAS pain) scores were assessed at 12, 24, and 48 hours postoperatively in accordance with shoulder pathology. Postoperative narcotics-related complications and consumption of additional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs between the two groups were compared. RESULTS: VAS pain showed no significant difference between the two groups at most points of the postoperative timeline, regardless of shoulder pathology, except in patients with rotator cuff repair at postoperative 24 hours. Although the IV-PCA group showed a statistically lower VAS pain score than the ISB group at postoperative 24 hours (p=0.04), the difference in the VAS pain score was only 9.0 mm in patients with rotator cuff repair. Narcotics-related complications were observed more frequently in the IV-PCA group than in the ISB group for patients with rotator cuff repair. CONCLUSIONS: Additional IV-PCA demonstrated no booster effect for immediate pain control in patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery with preoperative single ISB. Furthermore, patients with IV-PCA experienced greater narcotics-related complications.
Analgesia
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Analgesia, Patient-Controlled*
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Anesthesia
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Arthroscopy
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Humans
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Pathology
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Prospective Studies*
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Rotator Cuff
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Shoulder*
6.Treatment of intertrochanteric fractures of the femur: Comparison of the gamma nail and the dynamic hip screw.
Koing Woo KWUN ; Shin Kun KIM ; Sang Wook LEE ; Ki Hyun YOUN
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1993;28(5):1666-1673
No abstract available.
Femur*
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Hip Fractures*
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Hip*
8.Erratum: Major Obstacles to Implement a Full-Time Intensivist in Korean Adult ICUs: a Questionnaire Survey.
Jun Wan LEE ; Jae Young MOON ; Seok Wha YOUN ; Yong Sup SHIN ; Sang Il PARK ; Dong Chan KIM ; Younsuck KOH
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2016;31(3):262-262
We found an error in this article. The author's name should be corrected as following: from "Younsuk Koh" to "Younsuck Koh".
9.Major Obstacles to Implement a Full-Time Intensivist in Korean Adult ICUs: a Questionnaire Survey.
Jun Wan LEE ; Jae Young MOON ; Seok Wha YOUN ; Yong Sup SHIN ; Sang Il PARK ; Dong Chan KIM ; Younsuk KOH
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2016;31(2):111-117
BACKGROUND: Critical care physician staffing is a crucial element of the intensive care unit (ICU) organization, and is associated with better outcomes in ICUs. Adult ICUs in Korea have been suffering from inadequate full-time intensivists and nurses because of insufficient reimbursement rates (<50% of the original critical care cost) from the National Health Insurance System. Recently, full-time intensivists have been introduced as a prerequisite for adult ICUs of tertiary hospitals in Korea. The purpose of this study was to examine the perception of intensivist staffing among critical care program directors regarding the barriers and solutions when implementing an intensivist model of critical care in Korea. METHODS: An email survey of critical care program directors in designated teaching hospitals for critical care subspecialty training by the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine was performed. The survey domains included vision, culture, resources, barriers, and potential solutions to implementing intensivist physician staffing (IPS). RESULTS: Forty-two critical care program directors were surveyed. A total of 28 directors (66.7%) responded to email queries. Of these, 27 directors (96.4%) agreed that IPS would improve the quality of care in the ICU, although half of them reported a negative perception of relevant clinical colleagues for the role of full-time intensivists and poor resources for IPS in their hospitals. Increased financial burden due to hiring full-time intensivists and concerns regarding exclusion from the management of their critically ill patients in the ICU, together with loss of income for primary attending physicians were stated by the respondents to be major barriers to implementing IPS. Financial incentives for the required cost from the health insurance system and enhancement of medical law relevant to critical care were regarded as solutions to these issues. CONCLUSIONS: Critical care program directors believe that intensivist-led critical care can improve the outcome of ICUs. They indicated the financial burden due to IPS and underestimation of a full-time intensivist's role to be major barriers. The program directors agreed that a partnership between hospital leaders and the Ministry of Health and Welfare was needed to overcome these barriers.
Adult*
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Critical Care
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Critical Illness
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Electronic Mail
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Hospitals, Teaching
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Humans
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Insurance, Health
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Intensive Care Units
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Jurisprudence
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Korea
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Motivation
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National Health Programs
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Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Tertiary Care Centers
10.Cutaneous Plasmacytosis with Multiple Nodular Eruptions and Polyclonal Hypergammaglobulinemia.
Seung Yong JUNG ; Woo Seok KOH ; Sang Eun MOON ; Kwang Hyun CHO ; Jai Il YOUN ; Yoo Shin LEE
Annals of Dermatology 1994;6(2):183-187
We report two patients with multiple peculiar skin eruptions and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia. Both patients visited our hospital for the evaluation of asymptomatic multiple nodular eruptions on almost their entire body except for the lower extremities. Histologic examinations disclosed prominent infiltration of plasma cells and lymphoid follicular hyperplasia in the dermis but these plasma cells showed neither a mitotic figure nor atypicalities. Laboratory examinations showed polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemias and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rates. In spite of various investigations, the cause of the hypergammaglobulinemia remained obscure.
Blood Sedimentation
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Dermis
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Humans
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Hypergammaglobulinemia*
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Hyperplasia
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Lower Extremity
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Plasma Cells
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Skin