Antibody seroconversion in asymptomatic andsymptomatic patients infected with severe acuterespiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by Jiang, C, Wang, Y, Hu, M, Wen, L, Wen, C, Wang, Y, Zhu, W, Tai, S, Jiang, Z, Xiao, K, Faria, NR, De Clercq, E, Xu, J, Li, G

“…<br> <strong>Methods</strong> We collected clinical, laboratory and epidemiological records of patients hospitalised in a coronavirus field hospital in Wuhan. We performed qualitative detection of anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) using archived blood samples. …”

KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN SISTEM RUJUKAN KESEHATAN DAERAH KEPULAUAN DI KABUPATEN LINGGA PROVINSI KEPULAUAN RIAU by , Ignasius Luti, , Dr. Mubasysyir Hasanbasri, MA

“…The subjects are the head of primary health centre / physician in primary health centre , nurse/midwife partner, ambulance driver, shipmaster of clinics mobile boat, patient family, public figure, community health insurance/district health insurance manager, head of the Lingga District health centre/head of the local health department, the director of the Lingga Government Hospital / Lingga Field Hospital, and the nurse of Emergency unit in hospital. …”

Moral experiences of humanitarian health professionals caring for patients who are dying or likely to die in a humanitarian crisis by Matthew Hunt, Ani Chénier, Kevin Bezanson, Elysée Nouvet, Carrie Bernard, Sonya de Laat, Gautham Krishnaraj, Lisa Schwartz

“…International non-governmental organizations respond to many of these crises and provide healthcare in settings ranging from a field hospital deployed after an earthquake, to a health clinic in a longstanding refugee camp, to a treatment center during an infectious disease outbreak. …”
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Clinico-Economic Effectiveness of Ceftaroline Fosamil for the Treatment of Hospitalised Patients with Pneumococcal Community-Acquired Pneumonia from a Societal Perspective by Belkova Yu.А., Rachina S.A., Kozlov R.S.

“…We aimed to assess cost-effectiveness of CF for the treatment of PCAP in a multi-field hospital in Russia from a societal perspective. …”
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Vitamin D3 supplementation as an adjunct in the management of childhood infectious diarrhea: a systematic review by Samuel N Uwaezuoke, Chioma L Odimegwu, Ngozi R Mbanefo, Chizoma I Eneh, Ijeoma O Arodiwe, Uzoamaka V Muoneke, Francis N Ogbuka, Chibuzo O Ndiokwelu, Anthony T Akwue

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Can Oral Zinc Supplementation Reduce Relapses in Childhood Steroid-Sensitive Nephrotic Syndrome? A Systematic Review by Mbanefo NR, Uwaezuoke SN, Eneh CI, Odimegwu CL, Chikani UN, Muoneke UV, Nwolisa CE, Odo KE, Ogbuka FN, Akwue AT

“…Ngozi R Mbanefo,1 Samuel N Uwaezuoke,1 Chizoma I Eneh,2 Chioma L Odimegwu,1 Ugo N Chikani,1 Uzoamaka V Muoneke,1 Charles E Nwolisa,3 Kenneth E Odo,1 Francis N Ogbuka,2 Anthony T Akwue4 1Department of Pediatrics, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku-Ozalla Enugu, Enugu, Nigeria; 2Department of Pediatrics, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital Enugu, Enugu, Nigeria; 3Department of Pediatrics, Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria; 4Emergency Department, ASEER Field Hospital, Al Rabwah, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Samuel N Uwaezuoke, Tel +2348033248108, Email snuwaezuoke@yahoo.comIntroduction: Frequent relapses and steroid dependence are common treatment challenges of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) in children. …”
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Pandemic Responsiveness in an Acute Care Setting: A Community Hospital&rsquo;s Utilization of Operational Resources During COVID-19 by McLean J, Clark C, McKee A, Legue S, Cocking J, Lamarche A, Heerschap C, Morris S, Fletcher T, McKee C, Kennedy K, Gross L, Broeren A, Forder M, Barner W, Tebbutt C, Kings S, DiDiodato G

“…We then solicited operational strategies from a multidisciplinary group of hospital leaders to construct a narrative for each theme.Results: Seven recurrent themes critical to the hospital’s pandemic response emerged: 1) Organizational structure: a modified EOC structure was adopted to increase departmental interoperability and situational awareness; 2) Capacity planning: Design Thinking guided rapid infrastructure decisions to meet surge requirements; 3) Occupational health and workplace safety: a multidisciplinary team provided respirator fit-testing, critical absence adjudication, and wellness needs; 4) Human resources/workforce planning: new workforce planning, recruitment, and redeployment strategies addressed staffing shortages; 5) Personal protective equipment (PPE): PPE conservation required proactive sourcing from traditional and non-traditional suppliers; 6) Community response: local partnerships were activated to divert patients through a non-referral-based assessment and treatment centre, support long-term care and retirement homes, and establish a 70-bed field hospital; and 7) Corporate communication: a robust communication strategy provided timely and transparent access to rapidly evolving information.Conclusion: A community hospital’s operational preparedness for COVID-19 was supported by inter-operability, leveraging internal and external expertise and partnerships, creative problem solving, and developing novel tools to support occupational health and community initiatives.Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, infection, hospital, acute care, operational…”
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Complete and Resilient Documentation for Operational Medical Environments Leveraging Mobile Hands-free Technology in a Systems Approach: Experimental Study by MinJae Woo, Prabodh Mishra, Ju Lin, Snigdhaswin Kar, Nicholas Deas, Caleb Linduff, Sufeng Niu, Yuzhe Yang, Jerome McClendon, D Hudson Smith, Stephen L Shelton, Christopher E Gainey, William C Gerard, Melissa C Smith, Sarah F Griffin, Ronald W Gimbel, Kuang-Ching Wang

“…MethodsThe platform was built to extract meaningful medical information from the real-time audio streaming at the point of injury and transmit complete documentation to a field hospital prior to patient arrival. To this end, the state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) solutions with the following modular improvements were thoroughly explored: noise-resilient ASR, multi-style training, customized lexicon, and speech enhancement. …”
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„Ostatniej tej woli mojej rozporządzenia” — testamenty Jana Haliskiego (zm. po 1741), pułkownika wojsk królewskich — analiza porównawcza treści by Bożena Popiołek, Urszula Kicińska

“…Despite the generally acknowledged rule of writing testaments at home, soldiers’ last wills were often written down in a camp, just before the action, or in a field hospital where wounded soldiers landed. The article discusses a rare case of a double testament. …”
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Evaluation of cardiovascular risk factors for medical workers of an urban multidisciplinary hospital by K. G. Tkachenko, A. D. Erlikh, A. N. Atakanova, N. R. Aripova, M. Yu. Butusova, K. B. Kurbanova, R. M. Orlovskaya, N. V. Pashkevich, K. R. Pushkareva, M. V. Rodina, D. T. Shakhbolatova, O. A. Kislyak

“…To assess the prevalence of various risk factors (RF) for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among employees of a multi-field hospital (Moscow City Clinical Hospital № 29).Material and methods. …”
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Violence in persons with and without psychosis in the Czech Republic: risk and protective factors by Černý M, Hodgins S, Kučíková R, Kážmér L, Lambertová A, Nawka A, Nawková L, Parzelka A, Raboch J, Bob P, Vevera J

“…Martin Čern&yacute;,1,2 Sheilagh Hodgins,3 Radmila Kuč&iacute;kov&aacute;,2,4 Ladislav K&aacute;žm&eacute;r,5 Alena Lambertov&aacute;,1 Alexander Nawka,1 Lucie Nawkov&aacute;,1 Anna Parzelka,1 Jiř&iacute; Raboch,1 Petr Bob,1 Jan Vevera1,6&ndash;8 1Department of Psychiatry, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Psychiatry, Teaching Hospital Kr&aacute;lovsk&eacute; Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic; 3Institut Universitaire en Sant&eacute; Mentale de Montr&eacute;al, D&eacute;partement de Psychiatrie, Universit&eacute; de Montr&eacute;al, Montr&eacute;al, Quebec, Canada; 4Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, Prague, Czech Republic; 5Center for Epidemiological and Clinical Research in Addictions, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic; 67th Field Hospital, Czech Armed Forces, Hradec Kr&aacute;lov&eacute;, Czech Republic; 7Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital in Pilsen, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; 8Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Purpose: To prevent violence among persons with psychosis, further knowledge of the correlates and risk factors is needed. …”
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Initial study on TMPRSS2 p.Val160Met genetic variant in COVID-19 patients by Laksmi Wulandari, Berliana Hamidah, Cennikon Pakpahan, Nevy Shinta Damayanti, Neneng Dewi Kurniati, Christophorus Oetama Adiatmaja, Monica Rizky Wigianita, Soedarsono, Dominicus Husada, Damayanti Tinduh, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa, Anang Endaryanto, Ni Nyoman Tri Puspaningsih, Yasuko Mori, Maria Inge Lusida, Kazufumi Shimizu, Delvac Oceandy

“…Results We genotyped 95 patients with COVID-19 hospitalised in Dr Soetomo General Hospital and Indrapura Field Hospital (Surabaya, Indonesia) for the TMPRSS2 p.Val160Met polymorphism. …”
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Evaluation of an adjusted MEWS (Modified Early Warning Score) for COVID-19 patients to identify risk of ICU admission or death in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Jameela Al-Salman, Aysha Sanad Salem Alsabea, Safa Alkhawaja, Alia Mohammed Al Balooshi, Maryam Alalawi, Batool Abdulkarim Ebrahim, Jenan Hasan Zainaldeen, Adel Salman Al Sayyad

“…Hence, we set up this retrospective study to determine preadmission triaging tool to predict the development of severe COVID-19 in the Kingdom of Bahrain Materials and methods: A retrospective study was conducted from 1 September 2020 to 30 November 2020 with enrolment of all SARS-CoV-2 PCR-confirmed persons aged ≥ 14 years who attended Al-Shamil Field Hospital (SFH) in the Kingdom of Bahrain for triaging and assessment with recording of the following parameters: systolic blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, the alert, verbal, pain, unresponsive neurological score, age, oxygen saturation, comorbidities, Body Mass Index (BMI), duration of symptoms and living with immunocompromised populations to develop our local adjusted MEWS as predictor for ICU admission &amp; for consideration of suitable isolation at home.Follow up data of all patients was obtained from the electronic medical records system including CXR findings, treatments/medications received, need of oxygen supplements /intubation, needs of ICU care, and the outcome (death /discharged alive)IBM SPSS statistic version 21 program was used for data analysis. …”
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HEMOSTASTATIC ALTERATIONS WITH DISEASE SEVERITY IN THE EARLY SYMPTOMATIC PHASE OF COVID-19 by SC Huber, SAL Montalvão, SS Martins, LQ Silva, C Bacchin, T Diaz, C Wroclawski, CC Filho, EV Paula, JM Annichino-Bizzacchi

“…Aim: To evaluate whether biomarkers of hemostatic activation were associated with clinical outcomes in patients admitted to a field hospital set up to provide initial care to patients in the early symptomatic phase of Covid-19. …”
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Antibody seroconversion in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) by Chuanhao Jiang, Yali Wang, Min Hu, Lingjun Wen, Chuan Wen, Yang Wang, Weihong Zhu, Shi Tai, Zhongbiao Jiang, Kui Xiao, Nuno Rodrigues Faria, Erik De Clercq, Junmei Xu, Guangdi Li

“…Methods We collected clinical, laboratory and epidemiological records of patients hospitalised in a coronavirus field hospital in Wuhan. We performed qualitative detection of anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) using archived blood samples. …”
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in professional soldiers of the Czech army over a 11-year period by Fajfrová Jana, Pavlík Vladimír, Psutka Jan, Husarová Michaela, Krutišová Pavla, Fajfr Miroslav

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No independent associations between physical activity and clinical outcomes among hospitalized patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 by Ana J. Pinto, Karla F. Goessler, Alan L. Fernandes, Igor H. Murai, Lucas P. Sales, Bruna Z. Reis, Mayara Diniz Santos, Hamilton Roschel, Rosa M.R. Pereira, Bruno Gualano

“…Methods: Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (mean age: 54.9 years) were recruited from the Clinical Hospital of the School of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (a quaternary referral teaching hospital) and from Ibirapuera Field Hospital, both located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. PA level was assessed using the Baecke Questionnaire of Habitual Physical Activity. …”
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Effects of Three-Hour Wearing Personal Protective Equipment on Heart Rate Variability in Healthcare Workers for the Treatment of COVID-19 Patients by Thi Ngoc Le H, Xuan Nguyen K, Duy Nguyen T, Quang La H, Thanh Nguyen X, Tien Le D, Quoc Pham H, Xuan Nguyen K, Hoang Nguyen H, Van Pham V, Van Pham C, Pho DC, Nhu Do B, Viet Tran T, Tien Nguyen S, Dinh Le T, Cong Luong T

“…Han Thi Ngoc Le,1,&ast; Kien Xuan Nguyen,2,&ast; Toan Duy Nguyen,1 Ho Quang La,3 Xuan Thanh Nguyen,4 Dung Tien Le,5 Huy Quoc Pham,5 Khai Xuan Nguyen,6 Hiep Hoang Nguyen,7 Viet Van Pham,6 Cong Van Pham,5 Dinh Cong Pho,8 Binh Nhu Do,8 Tien Viet Tran,9 Son Tien Nguyen,10 Tuan Dinh Le,10,&ast; Thuc Cong Luong1 1Cardiovascular Center, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 2Department of Military Medical Command and Organization, Vietnam Medical Military University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 3Hospital Quality Control Division, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 4Senior Officer Department, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 5Intensive Care, Emergency and Poison Control Center, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 6Interventional Radiology Department, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 7Field Internal Medicine Center, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 8Department of Military Science, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 9Department of Infectious Diseases, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Medical Military University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam; 10Department of Rheumatology and Endocrinology, Vietnam Military Hospital 103, Medical Military University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Thuc Cong Luong, Cardiovascular Center, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, 160 Phung Hung Street, Phuc La Ward, Ha Dong District, Hanoi, Vietnam, Email luongcongthuc@vmmu.edu.vnBackground: Personal protective equipment (PPE), an essential shield to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been reported to affect their heart rate variability (HRV).Objective: To investigate the changes of very short-term heart rate variability in HCWs after three hours of wearing PPE to treat COVID-19 patients at different working times and intensities, and related factors.Methods: Sixty-five healthy HCWs were enrolled at the Number 2 Infectious Field Hospital (formed by Military Hospital 103), Vietnam. …”
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Character and Characterization in “Palms and Men” novel by Fariedeh Khajehpour, Zoalfagar Alami

“…“Colonel we wish u returned behind the lines, we would take u to the field hospital. Again the voice was broken up and after a few seconds the colonel’s voice could be heard, it seemed he was arguing with the soldiers around him. …”
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Want to Survive the Coronavirus Pandemic? Invest in the Social Determinants of Health by Michael Menconi

“…In New York City, these responses have included erecting makeshift field hospitals in Central Park, converting the Javits Convention Center into a 1,000-bed field hospital, and sailing the 1,000-bed USNS Comfort to Pier 88 in Manhattan. …”
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