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As the number of people more than 75 years of age increase, the demands on ambulatory day surgery, operating room, and PACU nurses will increase. Nurses recognize the changes that this "graying" patient population will force on hospitals' surgical units. There is a paucity of studies on the educational needs of operating room nursing staffs responsible for the care of elderly patients. How can these needs best be met? What additional staffing is needed to cope with the increasing numbers of older patients who do not move or respond as quickly as younger patients? Research is needed in every step of the nursing process and its application to the care of very elderly patients undergoing surgery. This frail and unstable population does not easily lend itself to empirical research design; however, findings on the impact of nursing procedures, such as prevention of postoperative joint pain and hypothermia, can increase patient safety and comfort.
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PMID:Implications of surgery in very elderly patients. 247 76

Common variable immunodeficiency is a heterogeneous group of disorders with arthritis and/or arthralgia as its most commonly associated autoimmune manifestation. We report 2 cases of common variable immunodeficiency in siblings who also had other unusual signs and symptoms. A 10-year-old boy suffered from bradycardia, hypothermia, hypoglycemia, and chronic eczema. His 13-year-old sister suffered from Kikuchi lymphadenitis, hypoperfusion and atrophy of the left cerebral hemisphere, and hemiparesis. They both showed classical laboratory findings of common variable immunodeficiency and the boy's associated symptoms responded to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. The findings from these cases suggest that a defect in the neuro-endocrine-immune axis may be one of the genetic bases of common variable immunodeficiency.
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PMID:Common variable immunodeficiency with hypoglycemia, Kikuchi lymphadenitis, and hemiparesis in two siblings. 1274 37