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1. Multiscale Biofluidic and Nanobiotechnology Approaches for Treating Sepsis in Extracorporeal Circuits.

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Kang, Joo H.

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Infectious diseases and their pandemics periodically attract public interests due to difficulty in treating the patients and the consequent high mortality. Sepsis caused by an imbalanced systemic inflammatory response to infection often leads to organ failure and death. The current therapeutic intervention mainly includes "the sepsis bundles," antibiotics (antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal), intravenous fluids for resuscitation, and surgery, which have significantly improved the clinical outcomes in past decades; however, the patients with fulminant sepsis are still in desperate need of alternative therapeutic approaches. One of the potential supportive therapies, extracorporeal blood treatment, has emerged and been developed for improving the current therapeutic efficacy. Here, I overview how the treatment of infectious diseases has been assisted with the extracorporeal adjuvant therapy and the potential utility of various nanobiotechnology and microfluidic approaches for developing new auxiliary therapeutic methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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2. Opinions of pediatric nurses about Jehovah's Witnesses refusal of blood transfusion for their child.

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Jakubowska, Klaudia, Kuczek, Barbara, Wiśniewska, Anna, Pilewska-Kozak, Anna, and Dobrowolska, Beata

Subjects
BLOOD transfusion, CHRISTIANITY, DECISION making, PATIENT-family relations, NURSES' attitudes, PEDIATRIC nursing, QUESTIONNAIRES, QUANTITATIVE research, PATIENT refusal of treatment, DATA analysis software, DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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2018
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3. Opinions of pediatric nurses about Jehovah’s Witnesses refusal of blood transfusion for their child

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Barbara Kuczek, Anna Bogusława Pilewska-Kozak, Klaudia Jakubowska, Anna Wiśniewska, and Beata Dobrowolska

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Blood transfusion, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, pediatric nurses, 05 social sciences, RT1-120, ethical problems, 050109 social psychology, Nursing, humanities, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 030228 respiratory system, Pediatric Nurses, medicine, jehovah’s witnesses, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, blood treatment, Intensive care medicine, business, General Nursing
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Introduction. Jehovah’s Witnesses absolutely refuse having blood transfusion performed. The situation is even more difficult when the refusal of blood transfusion concerns a child. Despite existing legal solutions, medical staff experiences value conflicts. Aim. To analyze the opinions of pediatric nurses about problems that may arise in case of Jehovah’s Witnesses refusal of blood transfusion for their child. Material and methods. Quantitative research was based on a diagnostic survey method. The variables were measured with the use of a survey questionnaire co-developed by the authors. A group of 104 pediatric nurses from the South-East Poland participated in the study. Results. To the question “Have you ever encountered the situation throughout all your working career when parents refused their child to undergo a blood treatment due to their beliefs?”, 67.31% (n = 70) of the respondents replied the situation rarely happened. Half of the nurses surveyed (n = 52, 50.02%) admitted they did not accept the position of Jehovah’s Witnesses concerning blood treatment. Most of the nurses surveyed – 87.38% (n = 89) think the existence of procedures on how to proceed in this difficult situation is crucial, and 83% (n = 86) of the respondents admitted that there was no better solution than the already existing legal procedure. Conclusions. The most difficult experience of pediatric nurses in the situation of Jehovah’s Witnesses refusal of blood transfusion for their child is in the opinion of surveyed nurses, endangering the child’s health or even life. Thus, most of the respondents agree that the best solution in that case is to implement a legal procedure that allows blood transfusion despite parents’ refusal.

Published
2018

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