Influenza vaccination acceptance and refusal rates among health care personnel.

abstract：:Like all types of farming, raising tobacco has many hazards that may lead to injury, disability, or death. Burley tobacco farming is a multistep process that is not highly mechanized. An 8-year emergency department surveillance system in Kentucky identified 674 injury cases related to the production of burley tobacco....

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Struttmann TW,Reed DK

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare, opportunistic pathogen most frequently contracted through contact with a contaminated source. An immunocompetent 26-year-old female patient presented to our institution with an infected lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt presenting as continued nonhealing wounds. After multiple debridements,...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Zakrzewski J,Hu K,Neisewander BL,Esfahani DR,Bhimani AD,Shah HP,Haddadin DW,Mehta AI

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of silver wire retention sutures requires added operating room time and expense, and it incurs the potential hazards of caught viscera, the possibility of more adhesions, leakage of intraperitoneal fluid through the exit wound, mild infection of exit wounds, and, on removal of the sutures, pain despite sedatio...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Old WL Jr,Stokes TL

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of procedures now routinely done through the laparoscope has continued to expand due to improved equipment for insufflation, hemostasis, and tissue manipulation, and to imaginative approaches to otherwise "routine" gynecologic problems traditionally treated by laparotomy. As with all new technologies, advoca...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Wagner J,Droesch J,Mann WJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42-year-old woman had dysentery caused by the Shiga bacillus, Shigella dysenteriae type 1, while taking diphenoxylate with atropine during and after her return from a trip to Mexico. Although she was treated with appropriate antibiotics, she suffered a prolonged and toxic acute course followed by intermittent bouts ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Rice PA,Baine WB

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed 12 arthrodeses of the knee and eight of the ankle, using the Hoffmann device as a compressor-fixator. For the knees, the double rectangular frame was used with the added fixation of a cylinder cast in six cases. In four cases a separate half frame was used in the anterior plane. Posttraumatic arthritis wa...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Velazco A,Fleming LL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although we know much about work-related physician burnout and the subsequent negative effects, we do not fully understand work-related physician wellness. Likewise, the relation of wellness and burnout to physician happiness is unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine how physician burnout and well...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Eckleberry-Hunt J,Kirkpatrick H,Taku K,Hunt R,Vasappa R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old woman with poorly controlled hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented with left iliac fossa pain, constipation alternating with diarrhea, and weight loss. She had been diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy five years previously. Echocardiogram had shown a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tan F,Thai AC,Cheah WK,Mukherjee JJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of 228 cholecystectomies done over a two-year period revealed 15 cases (6.6%) in which gallstones were absent. These 15 patients were all characterized by colicky abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant, with a mean duration of eight months. Ultrasonographic examination was falsely positive for gallstones ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Frykberg ER,Duong TC,LaRosa JJ,Etienne HB

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continued improvements in computer technology have led to significant enhancement of clinical teaching. We describe a "digital toolbox" consisting of personally accessible hardware and software products to assist in clinical teaching. The areas covered are computer-assisted diagnosis, digitization and display of clini...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Sandroni S,McGee J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was done to determine the safety, efficacy, dosing requirements, and spontaneous recovery profiles of prolonged infusions of rocuronium bromide in the critically ill. METHODS:This multicenter, prospective, nonrandomized, open label trial enrolled 32 patients at two university-based medical center...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Circeo LE,Reeves ST

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Satiety is the perception of satisfied fullness and represents a summation of neural and hormonal influences. Satiety can be assessed by drink tests, including water load. The objective of our study was to confirm the difference in water load volume between nonobese control children and children with function...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Arrouk R,Karpinski A,Lavenbarg T,Belmont J,McCallum RW,Hyman P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery spasm can occur in the presence of excessive alpha-adrenergic tone. A decrease in protective coronary vasodilator substance and enhanced alpha-adrenergic responsiveness, which occurs in the setting of hypothroidism and beta blockade, predisposes to coronary artery spasm. The case presented supports the...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schoolmeester WL,Jackman WM

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though low, the incidence of malaria in the United States is not insignificant and can be the source of infection in febrile travelers returning from endemic areas. Clinicians practicing in the United States must have a basic understanding of the malaria life cycle and its treatments to properly diagnose and treat thi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Bledsoe GH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonism associated with boxing has attracted recent media attention, yet little has been written about it in the medical literature. This report presents a typical case with a review of the literature. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Friedman JH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters for significant risk of aspiration have been defined as a gastric pH less than 2.5 and/or a volume greater than 25 ml. We investigated the effects of metoclopramide and cimetidine, alone and in combination, on the pH and volume of gastric contents of patients taking nothing by mouth before general anesthesi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Gipson SL,Stovall TG,Elkins TE,Crumrine RS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study, we determined patients' attitudes toward discussing firearms and issues of firearms safety with emergency department physicians. We assessed whether patients feel discriminated against should physicians discuss firearms safety, and whether they believed that physician counseling may change how...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Boge LA,Dos Santos C,Burkholder JD,Koschel BR,Cubeddu LX,Farcy DA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cough syncope occurs primarily in middle-aged male smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It has also been described in children with asthma. I report the case of a 34-year-old nonsmoker who had syncope due to coughing, and who also related a 1-year history of cough with wheezing. Chest examination...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Beckman TJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullosis diabeticorum, or diabetic bullae, is a non-inflammatory blistering condition that is virtually diagnostic of diabetes. Diabetic bullae most often present as painless, tense, superficial bullae that occur in an acral distribution and commonly heal in 2-6 weeks without scarring, but complications such as second...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lopez PR,Leicht S,Sigmon JR,Stigall L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations of outbreaks of Salmonella enteritidis gastroenteritis among humans, especially in the northeastern United States, implicate grade A shell chicken eggs as the likely vehicle of transmission. In April 1991 we investigated an outbreak of S enteritidis infections after a wedding anniversary celebrat...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Luby S,Jones J

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the epidemiology of weight gain and diabetes mellitus in general and in patients with severe mental illness in particular. Body mass index is defined, and possible predictors for weight gain in patients receiving antipsychotic medications are also enumerated. Information on risk of association wit...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Citrome L,Blonde L,Damatarca C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a perinatal outreach education program to determine its "transportability" (usefulness to other regional centers). Three kinds of data were available from seven regional centers: (1) participation in the program by health care providers, (2) changes in cognitive knowledge, and (3) changes in neonatal care...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Nowacek GA,Cook LJ,Kattwinkel J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight women were tested with a standard three-hour oral glucose tolerance test before and after three years of using a combination-type oral contraceptive containing mestranol and ethynodiol diacetate (Ovulen). At the three-year test time there was a significant elevation of the patients' weights and their 1-, ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spellacy WN,Buhi WC,Birk SA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article provides insight into the evolution of professional healthcare chaplaincy. It identifies key historical developments identifying the training, qualifications, and competencies of chaplains. Consideration is given to both the unique character of the pastoral role in healthcare as well as the contrib...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ford T,Tartaglia A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents distributional patterns of allopathic family practice physicians (including general practitioners) in Texas as compared with allopathic physicians in all other medical specialties in the state during the period 1969-1973, for which there are reliable data. Statistical analysis of this informatio...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stefanu C,Zetzman MR

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described two cases of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma, characterized by sedimentation level seen on unenhanced cerebral CT, in patients receiving anticoagulation therapy. Anticoagulation or coagulopathy may be important in producing sedimentation levels. The "sedimentation level" is a more accurate term th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Huang TY,Ahn SS

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 45 patients hospitalized with blastomycosis of bones or joints revealed 41 cases of osteomyelitis and 12 cases of septic arthritis. The majority were men (35 [78%] patients) and non-Aboriginal (32 [71%] patients). Median time from the onset of symptoms to hospitalization was shorter in women t...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Oppenheimer M,Embil JM,Black B,Wiebe L,Limerick B,MacDonald K,Trepman E

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a case of partial hypopituitarism involving deficient ACTH, LH, FSH, and growth hormone production and elevated prolactin. The hypopituitarism was caused by injury to the pituitary resulting from a parachute accident without direct craniocerebral trauma. The pathogenesis of this pituitary injury as ei...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Soules MR,Sheldon GW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a pilot study had suggested that a drug augmented delayed hypersensitivity, we conducted a control study in which 19 normal volunteers had the same skin test battery applied as in the pilot study, on two occasions one month apart with no intervening treatment. No change was observed in delayed hypersensitivity r...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Maguire LC,Lackey SD,Roszman TL,Kidwell NS

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cantharidin in either a 0.9% or 0.7% solution is a safe and effective office treatment for molluscum contagiosum. It simplifies the treatment, especially of children, by being a quick, simple, and painless procedure, but it should be applied only by the physician. ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Funt TR,Mehr KA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00