assessment of trauma in children

... resulting atmosphere was so stifling that they saw no choice but leaving 23 By examining children s motives in leaving home, we did not find any instances of families slamming their doors in their ... including field training and pre-testing the questions as well ethical concerns with street sexual minority youth (such as gaining informed consent) In order to determine whether the wording of ...  To inform advocacy and programming initiatives by including a set of concrete proposals for promotion and protection of the rights of LGBT street children in Asia in general and Vietnam in particular...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2015, 09:41

... lacking in co-operation for instrumented gait analysis using current techniques Managing spasticity in children In our preliminary open label study into the use of BoNT-A in the lower limbs of children ... These type of blocks produce muscular relaxation in the target area, providing a ‘window of opportunity’ for a focused programme of splinting, casting, gait training and strengthening of antagonist ... Brouwer et al., 2000) In a randomized clinical trial, Corry and colleagues compared serial casting with injection of botulinum toxin in the management of dynamic equinus in children with cerebral...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... to diagnose TB in children Careful history (including history of TB contact and symptoms consistent with TB) Clinical examination (including growth assessment) Tuberculin skin testing (TST) Bacteriological ... formulations and dosing of first- and second-line TB drugs in children DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN The diagnosis of TB in children relies on careful and thorough assessment of all the evidence ... need to be incorporated into existing guidelines and strategies that have been developed by NTPs Reducing the burden of TB in children will require changing and improving many existing practices,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... systematic study of ignition and spreading of fires involving an oxygen source such as a jet formed by a leak or initiation of an internal reaction involving failure of an inert coating needs to ... supported approximately 70 investigators in FY 2001 Of these NASA investigators, are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 10 are fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... The findings of the current study underline the importance of combining self- and proxy rating, not only in Germany Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... centres participating in the Benchmarking Project, which has been described in detail by Stern et al [2] The number of children of this age who participated in the Benchmarking Project in 2005 was ... genders in perception of HRQoL need further investigation Both self-rating and proxy rating provide important complementary sources of information, and these should be assessed in combination Use of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... certain items during the second, less intensive year of treatment, might be related to an increasing cumulative dose of corticosteroids This underscores the importance of continuing close monitoring ... counselling of both child and family during the whole of treatment In HR children, reported scores on cognitive functioning were considerable lower than in NHR children, regardless of the use of dexamethasone ... drafting of manuscript RL: coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data (questionnaires), performed the statistical analyses, drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... in measuring QoL in children, including (1) lack of consensus on suitable instruments, (2) the need for different instruments in different age groups and (3) the need of proxy reporting by parents ... essential in order to meet basic needs, to fulfill usual roles, and to maintain health and wellbeing [5]Quality of life (QoL) is defined as an individual's perception of their position in life, in the ... internal standard of patients, resulting in changes in the meaning of self-evaluation and hence in a possibly different experience of problems and values, such as HRQoL HRQoL studies are influenced...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... (FEES) of swallowing in determining the risk of aspiration in acute stroke patients Dysphagia 2001, 16:1-6 Sellars C, Dunnet C, Carter R: A preliminary comparison of videofluoroscopy of swallow ... frequently in rehabilitation engineering, for example, in the control of neural prostheses [49] and in the design of an intelligent wheelchair guidance system [50] For our experiments, the number of inputs ... time index of the digital recording of the vibration signal Methods Representation of swallowing activity Based on the clinical appeal of cervical auscultation and the recent success of swallowing...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... added to a domain if it correlated with a domain, it loaded only on one domain, and it generally made sense to include the item in the domain [29] The reliability of the domain, including the added ... losing additional data Various sources of data were systematically considered in the selection of items for domains Some of the data were qualitative in nature, for example the clinical opinion ... typically resulted in the grouping of similar items that could be formed into possible new domains (not necessarily those identified in the card sorting procedure) If a domain contained too many items...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... status In order to increase interrater reliability, the different degrees of functional impairment were defined in the questionnaire This measure has successfully been used in an earlier study in children ... better quality of life with regard to cognitive and emotional domains Interestingly, treatment-related variables, such as intensity of therapy and presence of medical complications mainly influenced ... be used for Swiss children Finally, there may be some concerns regarding our correlational findings, since the chance of falsely significant results increases with the number of comparisons performed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... measurement of HRQoL, encompassing all three components of children s well-being, is still in its infancy in children with SCD [11] For example, compared to over 400 studies on HRQoL in children ... and need specific care in the hospital Therefore, we argue for routine monitoring of HRQoL in children with SCD Incorporating patient reported outcomes of HRQoL in daily clinical practice will ... subjective HRQoL of children with SCD While interpreting the results of this study, strengths and limitations should be taken into account Findings of this study are strengthened by the use of a well-standardized...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... during ALL maintenance treatment because of the repetitive setup of the assessments For these questions (number and 8), mean scores as found in a previous study in Dutch children halfway ALL maintenance ... sleepiness and night wakenings Similar results have been found in children with chronic pain [13] and children referred to a sleep disorder clinic [20], but was not yet demonstrated in children ... D: Health-related quality of life during post-induction chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission: An influence of corticosteroid therapy Int J Oncol 1997, 11(2):333-339...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Measuring health-related quality of life in children with cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic ... The findings support the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module in children with cancer living in mainland ... The investigation was performed by research students majoring in Pediatrics and nurses All of them were trained in interviewing and administering questionnaires On-treatment status was defined...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... certain items during the second, less intensive year of treatment, might be related to an increasing cumulative dose of corticosteroids This underscores the importance of continuing close monitoring ... counselling of both child and family during the whole of treatment In HR children, reported scores on cognitive functioning were considerable lower than in NHR children, regardless of the use of dexamethasone ... drafting of manuscript RL: coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data (questionnaires), performed the statistical analyses, drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... in the population, and is independent from pain level Finally, acceptance of pain predicts better adjustment on measures of patient functioning than perceived pain intensity does, which continues ... of Spanish version of CPAQ AE = Activity Engagement subscale of Spanish version of CPAQ PW = Pain Willingness subscale of Spanish version of CPAQ one part of a contextual model of chronic pain ... The final study sample consisted of 205 patients attending the Pain Clinic (Santander, Spain) and Fibromyalgia Unit (Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza) during the year 2009 To be included in the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Assignments Specification of single locations of field allotments based on GPS readings of first point of entry of the cultivation area referred herein as field For estimating minimum distance between ... http://www.enveurope.com/content/23/1/9 Page of 10 Model Scenario 4: single GM field in the centre of the study area Modeling simulation with a single GM field located in the centre of the investigated region (circled) Each of the ... The regulation of mandatory labelling of GMOs is inactive and there is no provision for GMO labelling in terms of consumer preference [16] Owing to the aforementioned complexities of seed use or...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... added into microwells and incubated at room temperature for 30 min, followed by three PBS washes Blocking for non-specific binding was performed by adding 100 lL of 3% bovine serum albumin (BSA) ... albumin (BSA) and incubating for 60 at room temperature, followed by three PBS washes Binding was performed by adding 100 lL of diluted antiserum into microwells and incubating for h at room ... examination CARS microscopy was performed with a time constant of ms, a scanning area of 300 300 lm, a step size of lm, 300 300 pixels, a scanning velocity of lm/ms, and a sampling rate of 80...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... phải luôn trước kiểm soát tuần hoàn) 7/ NHỮNG GUIDELINE ĐỂ HỒI SỨC DỊCH CÁC TRẺ BỊ CHẤN THƯƠNG NẶNG ? Các dung dịch Normal saline lactated Ringer trụ cốt điều trị Packed RBC nên cho bệnh nhân ... (prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time) Những phim X quang ban đầu nên gồm có chụp bên cột sống cổ (lateral cervical spine), ngực khung chậu Sự tăng cao nồng độ transaminase hay amylase khiến xem ... PHỐI DƯỚI ÁP LỰC Tràn khí màng phổi áp lực vết thương ngực (penetrating chest trauma) hay chấn thương khí cấp tính (acute barotrauma) xảy bị chấn thương đụng dập Khí bị kẹt sau flap-valve defect...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 19:20

... antibody response induced Efficacy of adjuvants in sustaining antibody response induced BALB/c mice in groups of or more were immunized at day 0, 10, 20 with bacterial vaccine in various adjuvants, ... adjuvant potentials of phytol and PHIS-01 in augmenting efficacy of vaccines against the common infectious agents S aureus and E coli Our vaccine formulations contain heat-inactivated bacteria ... Y-I, Iwakura Y, Nakane A: Interleukin-4 and interleukin10 are involved in host resistance to Staphylococcus aureus infection through regulation of gamma interferon Infect Immun 2000, 68(5):2424-2430...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... King J, Soldin SJ: IMMULITE 2000 age and sex-specific reference intervals for alpha fetoprotein, homocysteine, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, ... children HOMA showed a predominance of insulin resistance in hyperglycemic children, although b-cell insufficiency or a combination of insulin resistance and b-cell insufficiency was also seen ... resulting in a hypoinsulinemic response resulted in hyperglycemia Insulin resistance, caused by high levels of counter-regulatory hormones and cytokines, oxidative stress, and therapeutic interventions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21