• 종양간호연구
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.204-216
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of foot reflexology on pain and mood in patients who have just had a mastectomy. The research design was a nonequivalent control group, non-synchronized design. The participants for this study were 28 patients with breast cancer on first or second day after mastectomy surgery. The first 12 patients were assigned to the control group and the second 16 to the experimental group. The study was conducted from October 28, 2001 to December 22, 2001 on a surgical unit of Y Medical Center in Seoul, Korea. Pain intensity, blood pressure, pulse rate and mood were measured as dependent variables. The instrument used for pain intensity and mood was a 10 cm visual analogue scale. Cronbach alpha for this study was .70. For the experimental group pre and post tests were done immediately before and 15 minutes after completion of foot reflexology. Foot reflexology was performed once for 20 minutes. After the pretest, patients in the control group were instructed to have a quiet time for a 35 minute period and then the post-test was done. The number of participants was small so the data were analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test, and Wilcoxon signed ranks test. The results of this study are as follow : 1. In the experimental group there were significant decreases between the pre and post tests for pain intensity (z=-3.47, p<.001), diastolic blood pressure (z=-2.67, p<.01) and pulse rate (z=-3.44, p<.001) but there was no difference between the two groups on the post test. 2. The systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate were also not significantly different between the experimental group and the control group on the post test. 3. The mood score was significantly improved after foot reflexology(z=-3.52, p=.000) and the difference between the two groups was also significant (u=49.0, p=.03). In conclusion, there was a statistically significant difference in mood between the two groups, but no difference for pain intensity, blood pressure, or pulse rate. However, there were significant differences between the pretest and post-test for pain intensity, diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate in the experimental group. On the basis of the above findings, this study suggests that foot reflexology can be an effective method of relieving pain and improving mood in clinical practice in women who have had mastectomy surgery.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.214-217
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• 2016

A 10-year-old, 24.1 kg, intact female Siberian husky dog (case 1) and 11-year-old, 5.0 kg, intact male Shihtzu dog (case 2) presented with chief complaints of polydipsia, anorexia, vomiting and exercise intolerance (case 1) and stranguria (case 2). Splenic nodule (case 1) and mass (case 2) were identified in these patients through ultrasonographic examination. Laparoscopic splenectomy was conducted for the histopathologic evaluation. In addition, laparoscopic ovariohysterectomy, liver biopsy (case 1) and castration (case 2) were performed for treatment or diagnosis of primary symptoms. Under general anesthesia, 5 mm three-portal access laparoscopic splenectomy was performed using the Sonicision$^{TM}$ equipment. The dogs were rotated onto right lateral recumbency. The spleen was elevated using a fan or goldfinger retractor, which revealed the ventral aspect of the spleen. Resection of vessels was started at the caudal aspect of the spleen using the Sonicision$^{TM}$. The excised spleen was removed from the abdominal cavity using a 12 mm endo-bag via the enlarged instrument portal. There were no post-operative complications in either patient. Histopathologic diagnoses were splenic lymphoid hyperplasia (case 1) and splenic nodular hyperplasia (case 2). Based on our experience, laparoscopic splenectomy is sufficient to replace traditional splenectomy in small animal surgery. The use of the Sonicision$^{TM}$ could be a novel surgical technique for three-portal laparoscopic splenectomy, regardless of patient size.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.5-21
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• 1999

Nursing organization culture is common patterns of believing, thinking and behaving resulted from a variety of experiences and interaction nurses in the same setting. This study was performed based on the assumption of existence of different subcultures within meta-culture, to identify the differences of subculture among 5 nursing units and to analyze the relationship between nursing organization culture and organizational commitment In this study, two kinds of instruments were used. One was the instrument of nursing organization culture developed by researcher through literature review and interview with nurses. The other one was Mowday's Organizational Commitment Questionnaire to measure organizational commitment of nurses. Both of them were structured with 5 scale. The answers were analyzed using SPSS program. The results were as follows : The meta-culture of the nursing organization culture was the people stable culture. There were significant differences in people development culture and people stable culture among 5 nursing units and all 5 units had different culture score. Especially, emergency room had strong development culture, and stable culture was dominant in operating room. Other units except emergency room and operating room had high scores in people stable culture than other culture types, but revealed different distribution. There were significant differences of the nursing organizational culture types -people development, task development, people stable, task stable-among 5 units. Four types of nursing organizational culture consisted of competing values in one organization. Nurses's organizational commitments were sign ificantly different among the units. The score per ceived by nurses who work in emergency room, operating room and leu was higher commitment score than that of medical/surgical nursing units Nurse's commitment to nursing organization was also related to total work period as nurse in any setting and work period in this hospital. Organizational commitment was significantly different among the nursing culture types, indicating that the scores of developmental culture were higher than stable culture. In conclusion, there were many different subcultures in nursing organization. In subculture, the organizational commitment was different. Therefore, the change of nursing organization culture or nursing unit culture needs to be considered to hire, give orientation, teach. and reallocate nurses efficiently. Research on nursing organization culture using both qualitative and quantitative method needs to be further considered. Furthermore, the strategy in nursing organization culture for nursing administrator to manage human resources efficiently and to change nursing unit effectively, needs to be developed.

• 임상간호연구
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.284-295
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was done to clarify effects of bispectral index monitoring sedative administration, compared to MOAA/S (Modified Observer's Assessment of Alertness and Sedation), on conscious sedation, physiological stability and recovery time for patients undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection. Methods: Participants In this study were patients who underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection because of early gastric cancer. Participants were assigned randomly to an experimental group receiving sedatives based on bispectral index monitoring or to a control group with the MOAA/S instrument. Movements, belching, memory, pain, discomfort, physiological stability (MBP, PR, $SpO_2$), and recovery time were measured during the treatment and recovery. Data were analyzed using Spearman partial correlation coefficient analysis, Mixed model and Wilcoxon rank sum test to determine differences in the parameters. Results: There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups for conscious sedation(movement, belching, memory, pain, or discomfort), physiological stability and recovery time. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that no differences were found between the two types of monitoring. Thus, use of a bispectral index monitor in clinical practice enabling medical staff to readily assess the conscious sedation of for these patients is expected to be increasingly used as an objective assessment tool for conscious sedation for patient safety.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.572-579
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• 2015

Background Facial rejuvenation can be achieved using a variety of techniques. Since minimally invasive procedures for face lifting have become popular because of their convenience and short operating time, numerous minimally invasive surgical procedures have been developed. In this study, a nonabsorbable polypropylene mesh is introduced as a new face lifting instrument, with the nasolabial fold as the main target area. In this paper, we report the efficacy and safety of a polypropylene mesh in midface rejuvenation. Methods Thirty-three subjects with moderate-to-severe nasolabial folds were enrolled from two medical institutions for a noncomparative single-sample study. A mesh was inserted above the superficial muscular aponeurotic system layer, reaching the nasolabial folds through a temporal scalp incision. After 3 weeks, the temporal end of the mesh was pulled to provide a lifting effect. Then, the mesh was fixed to the deep temporal fascia using nonabsorbable sutures. To evaluate efficacy, we compared the scores on the Wrinkle Severity Rating Scale and a visual analog scale for patient satisfaction between the baseline and 7 weeks postoperatively. In addition, we evaluated safety based on the incidence of adverse events. Results The treatment was deemed effective at improving wrinkles in 23 of 28 cases, and patient satisfaction improved significantly during the study period. There were seven cases of skin or subcutaneous tissue complications, including edema and erythema, but there were no suspected serious adverse events. Conclusions Face lifting using a nonabsorbable mesh can improve nasolabial folds without serious adverse effects. Thus, this technique is safe and effective for midface rejuvenation.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.123-136
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to confirm the classification of nursing activity and to analyze the time of nursing workload in a new open hospital. The data were collected from 20 nurses working in 6 general nursing units by 4 trained observers. The tools used for this study were an observation recording sheet and a classification sheet of nursing activity. The classification sheet was constructed to be adaptable to each hospital system based on the instrument described in the literature. The results of the study are as follows : The direct nursing activities consisted of 6 sections, 33 subsections and the indirect nursing activities consisted of 14 sections, 53 subsections. The direct nursing activities included medication, measuring and observation, care of therapies, care of physical comfort, laboratory and treatment. The indirect nursing activities included preparation of medical utensils, collection of information and assessment, recording, phone communication, professional interaction related to patients, personal time, assigning work to staff, patient eaucation and training, interaction with lab, transfer of administration of utensils, checking physician's order, dietary service, management of pollution and contagion, guide direction. Nurses spent 127.6min for direct nursing activity during day duty. It was 24.5% of total nursing activity. Within that activity medication had the highest percentage of time(40.09%), followed by communication and education with patient(24.76%), measuring and observation (16.93%), laboratory and treatment (12.85%), care of therapies(3.21%) and care of physical comfort (2.16%). The time breakdown for indirect nursing activities is as follows ; the preparation of medical utensils 22.3%, collection of information and assessment 20.29%, recording 20.27%, phone communication 8.14%, professional interaction related to patients 7.33%, personal time 7.24%, with the remaining timeshared by staffing, patient education and training, interaction with lab, transfer of administration of utensils, checking physician's order, dietary service, management of pollution and contagion, guide direction. In the analysis of the relationships between the working time and the work allocation characters of the nurses(including nurse's experiences. nurse-patients ratio, nurse-rooms ratio, and character of nursing unit) ; There were no significant differences in direct-indirect nursing times between nurse's career years. There was significant difference in direct nursing time between assigned patient numbers. The nurses assigned larger number of patients spent significantly more time in direct nursing care than that of the smaller. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in indirect nursing workload between the assigned patient numbers. There were no significant differences in direct-indirect nursing time between an allocated patient's room numbers. There was significant difference in working time between working places. The nurse in the medical unit spent more time in direct nursing care than her counterpart in the surgical unit. However there was no difference in direct nursing time between two groups. The study results indicate that nurses spent less time in the direct nursing care than in the previous studies even though the hospital system has been modernized. On the other hand they spent much more time for the coordinating role within the interdisciplinary team and for the overlapping paperwork. Therefore it is recommended that patient oriented job description and more efficient usage of modernized utilities be made.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.37-51
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• 2009

The nuclear power industry in the world has recognized the importance of integrating non-technical and team skills training with the technical training given to its control room operators to reduce human errors since the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents. The Nuclear power plant (NPP) industry in Korea has been also making efforts to reduce the human errors which largely have contributed to 120 nuclear reactor trips from the year 2001 to 2006. The Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was one of the efforts to reduce the human errors in the nuclear power industry. The CRM was developed as a response to new insights into the causes of aircraft accidents which followed from the introduction of flight recorders and cockpit voice recorders into modern jet aircraft. The CRM first became widely used in the commercial airline industry, but military aviation, shipboard crews, medical and surgical teams, offshore oil crews, and other high-consequence, high-risk, time-critical industry teams soon followed. This study aims to develop a CRM training program that helps to improve plant performance by reducing the number of reactor trips caused by the operators' errors in Korean NPP. The program is; firstly, based on the work we conducted to develop a human factors training from the applications to the Nuclear Power Plant; secondly, based on a number of guidelines from the current practicable literature; thirdly, focused on team skills, such as leadership, situational awareness, teamwork, and communication, which have been widely known to be critical for improving the operational performance and reducing human errors in Korean NPPs; lastly, similar to the event-based training approach that many researchers have applied in other domains: aircraft, medical operations, railroads, and offshore oilrigs. We conducted an experiment to test effectiveness of the CRM training program in a condition of simulated control room also. We found that the program made the operators' attitudes and behaviors be improved positively from the experimental results. The more implications of the finding were discussed further in detail.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.456-466
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• 2019

최근 디지털 치의학 기술이 치과 치료에 다양하게 활용이 되고 있다. 본 증례는 다수의 치아 상실과 치아 마모로 수직고경이 감소한 환자의 치료에서 이러한 디지털 치의학 기술이 어떻게 적용되는지 다루고 있다. 감소한 수직고경을 주의 깊게 평가하여 회복하였고, 최종 수복물을 고려하여 설계한 수술용 가이드를 이용하여 임플란트 식립을 시행하였다. 디지털 악간관계 측정기를 이용하여 하악의 전측방 운동을 측정하여 교합기에 반영하였고, Naturgemäße Aufwachs-Technik (N.A.T.), Natural functional reconstruction (N.F.R.)을 이용한 왁스업 과정을 진행하였다. 이를 스캔하여 CAD/CAM 기술로 임시 수복물을 제작하였고, 기능적, 심미적으로 만족스러운 상태까지 진료실에서 조정과정을 거친 뒤 Computer-Aided-Design/Computer-Aided-Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) 기술을 활용하여 최종 수복물로 그대로 이행될 수 있도록 하였다. 이와 같이 디지털 치의학 기술과 전통적인 방식의 장점을 활용하여 환자와 술자 모두 만족할만한 결과를 얻었기에 이를 보고하고자 한다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.1070-1075
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• 1998

연구배경 : 흉강경의 출현으로 인하여 개흉술보다는 덜 침습적인 기포절제술과 흉막유착술에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 흉강경수술은 개흉술에 비하여 높은 재발율을 보이며 이는 부적절한 흉막유착술의 결과 때문이라고 여겨진다. 재료 및 방법 : 저자들은 1996년 4월에서 1997년 8월 사이에 자연기흉으로 흉강경수술을 받은 62예의 환자에 있어서 흉막찰과의 강도에 따른 단기 재발율을 비교하고자 하였다. 환자는 내시경감자기구로 거즈를 집어서 벽측흉막에 점상출혈을 유발할 정도의 약한 흉막찰과를 시행한 군(A군, 32예)과 고식적인 수술기구(대동맥감자)의 끝에 거즈를 단단히 감아서 흉막에 적당한 열상과 출혈을 유발할 정도로 강한 찰과를 시행한 군(B군, 30예)으로 나누어서 임상 경과, 합병증, 그리고 단기 재발율을 비교하여 보았다. 결과 : 두 군간의 수술적응증, 나이와 성별의 분포는 비슷하였다. 술 후 흉관거치기간(3.78$\pm$3.35일:3.80$\pm$2.49일)과 입원기간(4.72$\pm$1.87일:4.67$\pm$2.20일)에 있어서도 두 군간에 유의한 차이가 없었으며, 진통제 사용량과 기간도 비슷하였다. 합병증의 대부분은 지속적인 공기누출이었고 A군에서 4예(12.5%), B군에서 2예(6.7%)로 비슷하게 발생하였으며, 출혈과 관련된 합병증은 없었다. A군과 B군에 있어서 각각 평균 9.7개월과 9.6개월의 단기 관찰기간동안 12.5%(4/32)와 0%(0/30)의 재발율을 보여서 통계학적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<0.05). 결론 : 자연기흉의 흉강경수술에 있어서 적절한 강도의 흉막찰과술의 시행은 재발을 감소시키는 중요한 인자이며, 이러한 수술로서 흉부절개술에 버금가는 낮은 재발율 성적을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.477-484
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• 2001

배경: 식도 천공의 초기 증상은 명확하지 않은 반면, 조기 진단과 아울러 적절한 치료가 즉각적으로 이뤄지지 않을 때는 매우 치명적인 결과가 나온다. 이에 본 연구에서는 식도 천공의 예후에 영향을 미치는 인자들을 파악하여 치료 성적의 향상에 기여하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: 1984년 10월부터 2000년 6월가지 식도천공으로 내원한 32명을 대상으로 하여 환자의 성별, 연령, 천공 원인, 천공 부위, 치료 시작까지의 소요시간, 천공에 의해 발생한 증상과 합병증 그리고 치료 방법 등의 임상 관찰 항목을 조사하였으며, 각 항목에 따른 식도 천공 환자 생존과의 연관성을 알아보았다. 결과: 환자는 남자가 24명, 여자가 8명이었고 평균연령은 49.7$\pm$16.4세였으며, 천공의 원인은 기구조작과 수술손상등으로 인한 의인성인 경우가 14례(43%)로 가장 많았다. 천공부위는 흉부식도에서 가장 많았으며(26례, 81.2%), 증상은 흉통이 가장 많았다. 식도천공에 의한 합병증으로는 종격동염, 농흉, 전신패혈증, 복막염의 순이었으며 치료결과 생존 23례 사망 9례로 전체 사망률은 28.1%였으며 주요 사망원으로는 전신패혈증과 호흡부전증이었다. 치료로는 8례(25.0%)에서 보존적 치료만으로 치유가 가능하였고 수술적 치료로 경부배농술이 5례(15.6%), 일차봉합술이 7례(21.8%), 식도격리-우회로 시행후 식도 재건술을 시행한 경우가 12771(37.5%) 시행되었다. 초기치료에 식도천공이 완치된 경우는 18711(56.2%)였고, 초기치료에 실패한 14례(43.8%)의 경우에서는 다음 단계 치료과정후 완치되거나 도중 사망하였다.