Fatigue has negative impacts on the general working population as well as on seafarers. In order to study seafarers’ fatigue, a questionnaire-base survey was conducted to gain information about potential risk factors...Fatigue has negative impacts on the general working population as well as on seafarers. In order to study seafarers’ fatigue, a questionnaire-base survey was conducted to gain information about potential risk factors for fatigue and construct indexes indicating fatigue. The study applies T-test to compare strata of seafarers to analyse work and sleep patterns in global seafaring. Qualitative analysis are also employed to explore the impacts of fatigue on seafarer’s occupational health and safety.展开更多
Seventy-five percent of upper limb disorders that are related to work are regarded as diagnostically unclassifiable and therefore challenging to the clinician.Therefore it has been generally less successfully topreven...Seventy-five percent of upper limb disorders that are related to work are regarded as diagnostically unclassifiable and therefore challenging to the clinician.Therefore it has been generally less successfully toprevent and treat these common and frequently disabling disorders.To reach a diagnosis requires the identification of the responsible pathology and the involved tissues and structures.Consequently,improved diagnostic approaches are needed.This editorial discusses the potentials of using the clinical neurologic examination in patients with upper limb complaints related to work.It is argued that a simple but systematic physical approach permits the examiner to frequently identify patterns of neurological findings that suggest nerve afflictions and their locations,and that electrophysiological studies are less likely to identify pathology.A diagnostic algorithm for the physical assessment is provided to assist the clinician.Failure to include representative neurological items in the physical examination may result in patients being misinterpreted,misdiagnosed and mistreated.展开更多
文摘Fatigue has negative impacts on the general working population as well as on seafarers. In order to study seafarers’ fatigue, a questionnaire-base survey was conducted to gain information about potential risk factors for fatigue and construct indexes indicating fatigue. The study applies T-test to compare strata of seafarers to analyse work and sleep patterns in global seafaring. Qualitative analysis are also employed to explore the impacts of fatigue on seafarer’s occupational health and safety.
文摘Seventy-five percent of upper limb disorders that are related to work are regarded as diagnostically unclassifiable and therefore challenging to the clinician.Therefore it has been generally less successfully toprevent and treat these common and frequently disabling disorders.To reach a diagnosis requires the identification of the responsible pathology and the involved tissues and structures.Consequently,improved diagnostic approaches are needed.This editorial discusses the potentials of using the clinical neurologic examination in patients with upper limb complaints related to work.It is argued that a simple but systematic physical approach permits the examiner to frequently identify patterns of neurological findings that suggest nerve afflictions and their locations,and that electrophysiological studies are less likely to identify pathology.A diagnostic algorithm for the physical assessment is provided to assist the clinician.Failure to include representative neurological items in the physical examination may result in patients being misinterpreted,misdiagnosed and mistreated.
