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Management Quality of Surgical Instrument and Influence of Cleaning and Sterilization on the Surgical Outcomes of the Patient: A Review
Altern Ther Health Med. 2023 Sep 15:AT8850. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen a medical device or surgical instrument comes into contact with the patient's sterile tissue or mucous membrane during the various processes, the risk of introducing infections into the patient's body increases. Furthermore, an infection may be transmitted from one patient to another, from a patient to a member of the medical staff and vice versa or from the environment to the patient via improperly sterilized or disinfected equipment. A number of outbreaks and diseases have been documented in the hospital setting as a result of poorly sanitized...
Source: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine - September 14, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Shuwen Zheng Dong Jiang Ping Liu Huiqin Zhang Source Type: research

A Narrative Review of Alternative Symptomatic Treatments for Herpes Simplex Virus
Viruses. 2023 Jun 2;15(6):1314. doi: 10.3390/v15061314.ABSTRACTHerpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) and -2 (HSV-2) are large, spherically shaped, double-stranded DNA viruses that coevolved with Homo sapiens for over 300,000 years, having developed numerous immunoevasive mechanisms to survive the lifetime of their human host. Although in the continued absence of an acceptable prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine, approved pharmacologics (e.g., nucleoside analogs) hold benefit against viral outbreaks, while resistance and toxicity limit their universal application. Against these shortcomings, there is a long history of proven and ...
Source: Herpes - June 28, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jane Y Chang Curt Balch Joseph Puccio Hyung S Oh Source Type: research

An Interview Study of College Students' Health Emergency Literacy in the Context of COVID-19 Normalized Prevention and Control
CONCLUSION: The vast majority of respondents' health emergency literacy appears to weaken in the late stages of epidemic normalization, and the effect of traditional approaches used by universities to improve college students' health emergency literacy is weak.PMID:37083650
Source: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine - April 21, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Senhui Zhang Hongyan Qi Yujia Shan Hui Lan Yuqing Cao Wenjie Xin Ting Ou Weiwei Tang Source Type: research