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Sonographers described caring for their patients as having both positive and negative effects on themselves. Sonographers explained having developed protective mechanisms to help them when caring for tenacious patients. There was also a sense of emotional and psychological strain identified. Despite this, sonographers displayed a sense of professional pride for their careers.

Guidelines were developed to alleviate the emotional and psychological strains sonographers are burdened with. These guidelines included; the facilitation of a supportive and healing environment through reflective practice, availability of a psychologist, and having a tea garden at work.

Guidelines were developed to alleviate the emotional and psychological strains sonographers are burdened with. These guidelines included; the facilitation of a supportive and healing environment through reflective practice, availability of a psychologist, and having a tea garden at work.

Research in the last decade shows growing interest for soft skills in healthcare, due to awareness of the influence of adverse events in healthcare. However, there was no specific study about non-technical skills used by therapists in the French radiation oncology departments. What are these behavioral competencies that medical radiation technologists (MRT) use in their work to deliver safe and efficient healthcare?

We built a self-assessment grid of 40 non classified soft skills for the active MRT to fulfill. This tool was sent to a total of 8 private and public radiation oncology department's head therapists. First, the 42 sampled MRTs had to choose how much they felt reflected in each of the listed soft skills. Second, they were asked to select 5 skills that they felt were the most important for a radiation therapist from the 40 soft skills in the initial grid.

The 5 soft skills MRTs think they have include the following conscientiousness, working autonomously, listening, diligence, and working in a onscientiousness" and "agreeableness" come first. Selleckchem 1-PHENYL-2-THIOUREA Conscientiousness and listening skills are the biggest skills for the radiation therapists, because these are the skills they think they have the most, and also because they consider these skills as the most useful for an MRT. The radiation therapists surveyed did not think they were bold, nor creative, nor able to manage conflicts. The way the MRT perceives themselves is as a conscientious technician and a nice caregiver, compliant with what is expected from them professionally and in the society.Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a well-established treatment option for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (Leon et al., 2016), and recently has also been utilised for bioprosthetic surgical aortic valve (sAVR) failure (valve-in-valve TAVR (ViV-TAVR)) (Yoon et al., 2017; Nalluri et al., 2018). Data supporting ViV-TAVR are limited to observational studies but suggest similar outcomes to re-do sAVR in high risk patients (Barbanti et al., n.d.). Whilst bioprosthetic SAVR failure is well documented, TAVR failure is less well described (Barbanti et al., n.d.). Here, we describe a case of TAVR failure in a previous sAVR resulting in the need for emergent valve-in-valve-in-valve TAVR (ViViV-TAVR).

Recently, measures of tumor growth kinetics calculated by carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) determinations after cytotoxic chemotherapy (CHT) have been reported as effective prognostic indicators in locally-advanced unresectable and metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma (mPDAC). The study aims to evaluate the prognostic role of tumor kinetics measured by CA 19-9 in patients with mPDAC, measuring it by three different ways.

Patients with mPDAC receiving a first-line CHT between 2009 and 2017 were identified, and those for whom CA 19-9 data were available were enrolled. Three CA 19-9-related variables were calculated CA 19-9 related reduction rate (RR) and tumor growth rate (G), after 8 weeks of CHT, tumor growth and inflammation index (TGII), after 90 days of CHT. The relationships with the outcome were analysed, and a Cox model has been build with each of the three variables.

Of 118 patients only 48 were eligible for the analysis. RR, G, or TGII appear as significant prognostic factors, and, after multivariate analysis, a reduction rate of 20% the baseline or more was associated with good survival (HR 0.321; CIs 0.156-0.661) as well as a G>-0.4%/day (HR 2.114; CIs 1.034-4.321), whereas TGII >190 was not correlated with the outcome (HR 1.788; CIs 0.789-4.055).

In patients with mPDAC, after 8 weeks of first-line CHT, CA 19-9-related tumor reduction or growth rate appear as valuable prognostic factors.

In patients with mPDAC, after 8 weeks of first-line CHT, CA 19-9-related tumor reduction or growth rate appear as valuable prognostic factors.Cystic fibrosis-associated liver disease (CFLD) is the third most common cause of death in cystic fibrosis (CF). Poor ability to identify early, non-cirrhotic liver disease hampers interventions to mitigate complications associated with CFLD and potential early therapies that may halt the progression of cirrhosis. Liver fibrosis indices, such as APRI, FIB-4, and GPR, are minimally invasive biomarkers that may be useful for the detection and monitoring of CFLD. However, variability in the upper limit of normal values used in these calculations makes it difficult to compare results across research studies and identify appropriate indices cutoffs. Previously published APRI and GPR values are re-calculated using the same upper limit of normal values as recently published data on APRI and GPR, highlighting the importance of standardized upper limit of normal values for calculating liver fibrosis indices in CFLD detection and monitoring.

Molecular diagnostics have led to the identification of a broad range of bacterial species in cystic fibrosis (CF) including Inquilinus. The clinical significance of Inquilinus in CF has not been thoroughly characterized.

Retrospective, case-control study of persons with CF from two CF centers with at least one respiratory culture positive for Inquilinus spp. compared with age-matched CF controls with chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Percent predicted forced expiratory volume in one second (ppFEV1) and body mass index percentile (BMI) were modeled from time of first positive culture up to 5 years later. Rates of pulmonary exacerbations were compared. Inquilinus isolates were genotyped to evaluate strain diversity.

Seventeen patients with Inquilinus infection were identified with a mean age of 13 years at first positive culture. Most cases had multiple cultures positive for Inquilinus. ppFEV1 was not different between cases versus controls (80.2% vs 81.6%, p=0.97 at baseline, 67.5% vs. 73.3%, p=0.82 at 5 years).