Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Medical post-traumatic stress disorder: catching up with the cutting edge in stress research. | Available online http content 11 1 118 Commentary Medical post-traumatic stress disorder catching up with the cutting edge in stress research Craig Weinert1 and William Meller2 1 Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine University of Minnesota Medical School 420 Delaware St SE Minneapolis MN 55455 USA 2Department of Psychiatry University of Minnesota Medical School 420 Delaware St SE Minneapolis MN 55455 USA Corresponding author Craig Weinert weine006@ Published 27 February 2007 This article is online at http content 11 1 118 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2007 11 118 doi cc5697 See related research by Boer et al. http content 11 1 R30 related research by Jackson et al. http content 11 1 R27 and related research by Girard et al. http content 11 1 R28 Abstract We briefly summarize two original research papers and a review article. We then review the formal structure of the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD and discuss the use of continuous measures of PTSD in comparison with diagnostic instruments. Problems with distinguishing incident from prevalent PTSD cases lead to questions of whether medical PTSD is a new important problem. By examining current studies we demonstrate that medical PTSD is lagging in fundamental and interventional research but we discuss how medical PTSD has unique opportunities to develop causal models that could inform the greater field of stress studies. We conclude by advocating that future medical PTSD research efforts should focus on understanding how fundamental brain processes are affected during acute medical stress. In this issue of Critical Care two new observational studies of post-hospitalization post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD 1 2 are presented as well as a review of 16 studies of noninjury-related critical illness PTSD 3 . The major finding of the paper by Boer and colleagues 1 was that in a crosssectional study of patients .
