Visual Field Recovery - Case Report of a Patient with Left Homonymous Hemianopsia Post-Stroke: Crimson Publishers

Visual Field Recovery - Case Report of a Patient with LeftHomonymous Hemianopsia Post-Stroke by Marsha Davis Benshir in Crimson Publishers

Optometrists specializing in Neuro-optometric rehabilitation have been working with physiatrists, neurologists and other rehabilitation specialist for decades, and have demonstrated that visual field recovery is possible for many patients beyond the expected time for recovery. The research proving that therapy can be effective is being done by neurologists who have demonstrated re-wiring of neural pathways with improved performance after repetitive visual-motor tasks and recovery of somatosensory and motor awareness after virtual reality (visual) stimulation [2].

In one UK study of 915 stroke patients 52% had visual field loss and 10% had no symptoms. Of the patients with visual field loss half had difficulty reading, blurry vision, diplopia, ocular motor and perceptual problems while half complained only of their peripheral vision loss. At follow up 15 patients (7.5%) had full recovery, 78 (39%) had improvement, and 104 (52%) had no recovery. Two patients (1%) had further decline of visual field. Patients with visual field loss had lower quality of life scores than stroke patients without visual impairment and patients with homonymous hemianopsia had worse overall prognosis for recovery [3].

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Can Blackcurrant (Ribes Nigrum L) Help in Control of Ligneous Conjunctivitis?_Crimson Publisher

Can Blackcurrant (Ribes Nigrum L) Help in Control ofLigneous Conjunctivitis? by Mariana Granito Ponte de Oliveira in Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

Plasminogen is an enzyme that is linked to the dissolution of fibrin, and consequently thrombi. It plays an important role in the recruitment of macrophages during the inflammatory response. Plasminogen deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease, which may be heterozygotes asymptomatic or homozygou symptomatics. It can be correlated to appearance of low levels of plasminogen in children, whose both parents have reduced values [1].

The ligneous Conjunctivitis (LC) is the most common presentation of clinical syndromes associated with type I plasminogen deficiency [2,3]. It's a rare pathology and may be more prevalent in areas where consanguinity is more common [1,3]. Its diagnosis is based on clinical, histological and possibly positive family history. Clinical findings are usually: Chronic tearing, conjunctival hyperemia, pseudomembranous lesion in the conjunctiva and/or other mucosal sites of the body, possibly associated with colloid milium or obstructive congenital hydrocephalus. Such membranes are deeply adhered to the conjunctiva of the eyelid, with its free end. Removal tends to cause bleeding because the area is vascularized [4,5].

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Diagnosing and Managing a Case with a Fourth Nerve Palsy and Papilledema_Crismson Publishers

Diagnosing and Managing a Case with a Fourth Nerve Palsy andPapilledema by Alfonso Casado in Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

A 14-year-old boy presented to the Hospital with new-onset vertical binocular diplopia. Medical history was notable for a recent cranial traumatism. On examination, visual acuity was 20/20 in each eye. Pupils were equal and reactive. Visual fields (VF) were full to confrontation. A slight right head-tilt was observed (Figure 1A), as well as a left hypertropia of 3 Diopters (DP) in primary gaze. Ductions and versions revealed mild over-elevation in adduction and under-depression in adduction on the left eye. Left side Bielschowski maneuver was positive (Figure 1B). Red filter in right eye-test showed an oblique diplopia, but the patient had no torsion on Maddox testing. However, dilated fundus examination revealed bilateral fundus torsion and papilledema (Figure 2). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) revealed an abnormal thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and a normal values of retinal ganglion cells (GC).

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Atypical Presentation of Orbital Natural Killer cell Lymphoma_Crimson Publishers

Atypical Presentation of Orbital Natural Killer cellLymphoma by Brandon Menke in Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

Natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma is a rare primary non- Hodgkin lymphoma. It can be divided into nasal, non-nasal, and aggressive NK leukaemia/lymphoma subtypes [1]. Nasal NK/T cell lymphoma refers to malignancies originating in the nasopharyngeal area, causing destruction of the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, orbits, and surrounding structures. Common presenting signs are midline mass with obstruction, nasal bleeding, and perforation of the hard palate [3]. This subtype is more common in Asia and South America and relatively rare in Western countries [2]. The average age of affected patients is 50-60 years old, and it occurs three times more in males than females [3]. Due to its rare incidence and deceiving presentation, it is often misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis, granuloma, or fungal infection; thus, the final diagnosis and treatments can be delayed.

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Macular Abnormality after Successful Surgery for Idiopathic Macular Hole Assessed Using Optical Coherence Tomography_Crimson Publishers

Macular Abnormality after Successful Surgery for IdiopathicMacular Hole Assessed Using Optical Coherence Tomography by Nazimul Hussain in Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

Pars plana vitrectomy and internal limiting membrane peeling (ILM) is the standard of management for full thickness macular hole. After the introduction of ILM peeling, the success rate of surgical management of macular hole has improved tremendously. Several studies have shown that internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling in macular hole surgery causes changes in the macular thickness and decrease in retinal sensitivity [1-10].

Advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology over the years have made possible to assess the macular morphology and thickness more accurately. It has also made possible to study the structures in the layer of the retina more accurately. With this objective, a study of macular changes after brilliant blue assisted ILM peeling for idiopathic macular hole was done using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

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Understanding Differential Item Functioning and Item bias In Psychological Instruments_ Crimson Publishers

Understanding Differential Item Functioning and Item bias In Psychological Instruments by Insu Paek in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Study

For a psychological test or instrument to function properly as intended, items in the test should measure respondents’ performance fairly across different groups of respondents such as male and female. In psychometric literature, the concept of differential item functioning (DIF) has been introduced to address the differential group performance on an item when the groups are equated at the same level of ability or latent trait status. This article introduces the concept of DIF while making a clear distinction of DIF from item bias and simple group performance difference since the civil rights error of the 1960’s in the United States, inequity has become a critical social issue. The area of educational and psychological testing is no exception. The use of testing as a sorting mechanism [1] has brought equity concerns to many people, specifically the testing enterprise.

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Minor Surgery Program in a Health Centre_ Crimson Publishers

Minor Surgery Program in a Health Centre by Antonio Masiá Alegre in Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

Defined, agreed upon and even legislated in the field of primary care, why is minor surgery not a usual practice in the first level of health care? [1] We will talk about "rescuing” a family doctor's own practice and coordinating it with specialized attention to work as a team, without forgetting the important participation of nursing, looking for the quality of care and the improvement of work activity together with the satisfaction of both the user and of the professional.

Continuous training, adequate infrastructure and motivation of professionals are key. Finally, patient-medical motivation and satisfaction do not justify minor surgery on their own in primary care, but together with a precise surgical indication, safe and necessary practice, coordination with specialized care, plus scientific endorsement of what has been done and published. Until now, in addition to administrative support, they are real variables for its development and implementation [2]. Perhaps the medical super-specialization and the overloaded work schedule are two of the many reasons that have led to the practice of minor surgery in primary care reduced to simple sutures of injuries by nursing in most cases ... And It Is Not Like That

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Non-Communicable Diseases(NCDs) and Injuries Director Ministry of Public Health Kabul Afghanistan_ Crimson Publishers

Non-Communicable Diseases(NCDs) and Injuries Director Ministry of Public Health Kabul Afghanistan by Said Habib Arwal* in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Evidence, including from the Afghanistan mortality survey (AMS), identifies the increasing mortality due to the major NCDs and injuries, which have a major impact on the health of communities, the health system, and the economy of Afghanistan, as a major challenge

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Nurses' Spiritual Well-Being and Patients' Spiritual Care in Iran_ Crimson Publishers

Nurses' Spiritual Well-Being and Patients'Spiritual Care in Iran by Sepideh Jahandideh*, Azam Zare, Elizabeth Kendall and Mina Jahandideh in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Spirituality is known to play a significant role in patients' well-being and quality of life. Responding to patients' spiritual needs is considered to be an essential element of high quality medical care. Consequently, it seems logical that there is a professional requirement for nurses to achieve competence in the delivery of spiritual care. This study aims to examine the impact of nurses' spiritual well-being on patients' spiritual care. A total of 210 nurses working in critical care units completed Basic Psychological Needs questionnaire and Spiritual Care Competence Scale

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Analysis of Relationship Between AssociateDegree Nursing Student's Self-Confidence in Learning and their PerceivedPresence of 5 Instructional Design Characteristics_ Crimson Publishers

Analysis of Relationship Between AssociateDegree Nursing Student's Self-Confidence in Learning and their PerceivedPresence of 5 Instructional Design Characteristics by Geetha Kada* in COJNursing & Healthcare

Increasing patient acuity and complex health care demand the need for preparing competent graduate nurses. However, reduced availability of clinical setting exists translating to difficulties obtaining patient care experiences for nursing students. This ongoing issue demands nurse educators to seek alternative teaching strategies. High-fidelity simulation experiences can provide learning environment very similar to the clinical setting. The purpose of this descriptive co-relational quantitative research study was to examine what relationships

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Isolation, Characterization and Sequencing of Biofilm Bacterial Consortia from Drinking Water PVC Pipelines and their Influence on Corrosion of Mild Steel_ Crimson Publishers

Isolation,Characterization and Sequencing of Biofilm Bacterial Consortia from DrinkingWater PVC Pipelines and their Influence on Corrosion of Mild Steel by Suprajaa N, Prasad TNVKV* and Davida E in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Drinking water distribution system biofilms were investigated for the presence of hygienically relevant microorganisms. In this study we collected four PVC pipes from different Drinking water and studied the biofilm morphology, Characterizing the formation of biofilm on Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe lines were analyzed by using the techniques, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman microscopy (RMS), X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF)

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Sex Discrimination at Nursing in Turkey: To be a Male Nurse_ Crimson Publishers

Sex Discrimination at Nursingin Turkey: To be a Male Nurse by Mehtap Omac Sonmez*

in COJ Nursing &Healthcare

Nursing is a professional health care services occupation, in which the professional knowledge and behaviour required to apply the health care in an adequate and qualified manner to the individual, family and community will be provided in protective and curative health services. Sex discrimination by health staff, colleagues and patients is an important problem in during the professionalization of nursing. Male nurses are exposed discrimination and inequalities arise between colleagues in the worldwide

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Primal Leadership: Realizingthe Power of Emotional Intelligence- A Book Review_ Crimson Publishers

Primal Leadership: Realizingthe Power of Emotional Intelligence- A Book Review by Paul Andrew Bourne*, Traceloy Solomon, Idamae Hanna, and Heather A Smith Sherwood in COJ Nursing& Healthcare

The book Primal Leadership was written by Daniel Goleman and his colleagues Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee. Together they draw information and experiences from different educational disciplines and backgrounds. The book evolved from responses of people to two articles in Harvard Business Review of the titles “What Makes a Leader' and 'Leadership That Gets Results'. The authors provide totally different perspectives on the leadership discourse that speaks to the importance of emotional intelligence that drives great leaders

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Cardiorespiratory Arrest Associated with Propranolol use in Thyrotoxic Heart Disease_ Crimson Publishers

Cardiorespiratory ArrestAssociated with Propranolol use in Thyrotoxic Heart Disease by Lam AHY* in COJNursing & Healthcare

Beta-blockers are commonly used to treat tachyarrhythmia's in thyroid storm. However, there have been several cases in which cardiovascularcollapse has been reported after administration of Propranolol. This phenomenon seemed to be more common in Chinese. The article presented an unusual case. A 14-year-old girl with thyrotoxicosis presented with wide complex tachycardia in an electrocardiogram (ECG). The rhythm was converted to a trial tachycardia after cardio version. Propranolol was started to control atrial tachycardia. The girl developed cardiorespiratory arrest soon after taking Propranolol. She required high-dose inotropic support and the use of an intra-aortic balloon pump after resuscitation

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Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the Brief Scales for Coping Profile in Textile Workers_ Crimson Publishers

Reliability and Validity ofthe Turkish Version of the Brief Scales for Coping Profile in Textile Workers by Ozlem Koseoglu ORNEK* and Guler Yavuz Temel in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Background: Work related stress is very important issue among workers. It causes many different health problems. Coping strategies are key factors for dealing with and controlling job stress. The Brief Stress Coping Profile (BSCP) is documented to assess coping profiles of workers

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Recording Recovery Opportunities at Work and Functional Fatigue after Work: Two Instruments Adapted to the Swedish Context_ Crimson Publishers

Recording RecoveryOpportunities at Work and Functional Fatigue after Work: Two InstrumentsAdapted to the Swedish Context by Kerstin Wentz*, Kristina Gyllensten and Trevor Archer in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Objectives: The importance of considering need for recovery after work and recovery opportunities at the workplace is relevant for occupational groups supporting clients in the workplace. Therefore, it is important that these concepts may be estimated with valid and reliable instruments within also a Swedish context. Thus, the aim of the study was to adapt the Need for Recovery (NFR) scale and the Recovery Opportunities (RO) scale to Swedish conditions and to assess the psychometric properties of the scales.

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A Concept Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Mental Healthcare_ Crimson Publishers

A Concept Analysis ofInterdisciplinary Collaboration in Mental Healthcare by Lam AHY*, Jacky Tsz Lung Wong, Eris Ching Man Ho, Rita Yik Yan Choi and Matthew Shing Tack Fung in COJNursing & Healthcare

Given the complexity of bio-psycho-social-spiritual influences, people with mental illness should be provided with multifaceted treatment and multi-system intervention. Mental health care teams are therefore expected to achieve interdisciplinary collaboration (IDC) to ensure delivery of safe, high-quality and well coordinated health care. There is increasing evidence to suggest that IDC leads to better patient outcomes. A growing body of research has shown that IDC is more effective than standard care in terms of clinical outcomes such as improved quality of life and alleviated depressed mood in people with mental disorders-with reducing healthcare costs

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The Useof Artificial Neural Network and Logistic Regression to Predict the Influenceof Lifestyle on Cardiovascular Risk Factors_ Crimson Publishers

The Useof Artificial Neural Network and Logistic Regression to Predict the Influenceof Lifestyle on Cardiovascular Risk Factors by Jahandideh S*, Jahandideh M, Asefzadeh S and Ziaee A in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Objective: The first cause of death worldwide is cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD covers a wide array of disorders, including diseases of the cardiac muscle and of the vascular system supplying the heart, brain, and other vital organs. This research aims to the comprehensive impact that a series of lifestyle data from a population has on the main cardiovascular risk factors. Such predictions of the influence of lifestyle on cardiovascular risk factors could be useful.

Material and methods: A cross-sectional study was designed; the subjects who lived in Minodar, Iran were interviewed by trained nurses using a structural questionnaire. Data were processed from a sample of 393 subjects of both sexes aged 26-79 years old. The output data were: high/low cholesterolemia, HDL-C cholesterol, triglyceridemia. The input data were: sex, age, build, weight, marital status, Individual's status in the family, physical activity, hours of sleep per day, smoking, tobacco type, BMI. Two predictor models including artificial neural network and linear regression were applied

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Breastfeeding- Let’s do it together!_ Crimson Publishers

Breastfeeding-Let’s do it together! by Manju Chhugani* in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Breastfeeding is a very natural and effective way of providing nutrition to the newborn for the optimal growth and development. In the earlier times, nobody could have even thought that there could be so many issues related to not breastfeeding which in turn would adversely affect our future generations and the overall nation’s health. The Lancet reported that if almost every mother breastfed her children it could prevent more than 800,000 child deaths a year.

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Education and Nutritional Self-Care for Basic Level School Communities in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico_ Crimson Publishers

Education and Nutritional Self-Care for Basic Level School Communities in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico by Patricia Islas Salinas*, Claudia Teresa Domínguez Chavira and Alejandra González Chávez in COJ Nursing & Healthcare

The present study aims to foster a culture of self-care from Dorotea Orem nursing perspective, as well as to take nutritional health education and awareness about the benefits of the “healthy lunchbox” to beneficiaries and advisors for the program “Ampliando el Desarrollo de losNiños” (ADN) of the “Fundación del Empresario Chihuahuense” (FECHAC). Derived from the proposal to the ongoing reform of the Mexican educational system to promote an improvement in the nutritional quality of the students of basic education. The methodology has a mixed approach, which is intended to have an impact in the context and the collective schools through educational intervention

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