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... surgical treatment (decompressive craniectomy) Table Basic clinical data and course in study infants Age Patient (years) Sex Type of trauma Glasgow Coma Scale Peak ICP on admission (mmHg) Initial ... treatment strategy in pediatric head injury [6] The presented pilot trial adds an additional argument for surgical decompression at an early stage in case of treatment-refractory intracranial ... 70 Unilateral skull fracture; brain contusion in frontal lobe, basal ganglia and corpus callosum (DAI) Bilateral 11 11 Male Car accident 41 Left-sided calvarial and skull base fracture, tSAH, DBS...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... eligibility status Following the initial invitation letter, a follow-up phone call was made and if participation was agreed upon, a face-to-face meeting was arranged with an appropriate interpreter along ... headscarves I feel unsafe in this area, always scared I explained about the accommodation not being good, and feeling unsafe, but no one has helped “ 9|Page Asylum Process Main Findings • 72% of ... should inform women of any advantages and possible disadvantages of making an independent versus dependant claim The large percentage of women who experienced some form of intimate partner violence...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... development of the computer program which had to include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient ... the assessment of the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic ... feedback of HRQoL has as of yet not been widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... development of the computer program which had to include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient ... the assessment of the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic ... feedback of HRQoL has as of yet not been widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Tumbahangphe K, Tamang S, Thapa S, Shrestha D, Thapa B, Shrestha JR, Wade A, Borghi J, Standing H, Manandhar M, Costello AM, members of the MIRA Makwanpur trial team: Effect of a participatory intervention ... 108:159-164 54 Tripathy P, Nair N, Barnett S, Mahapatra R, Borghi J, Rath S, Rath S, Gope R, Matho DSR, Lakshminarayana R, Patel V, Pagel C, Prost A, Costello A: Effect of a participatory intervention ... Solving Therapy) website ‘Allesondercontrole.nl’ was translated into English, Xhosa and Afrikaans, the three official languages spoken in South Africa’s Western Cape Province The accuracy of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... that the program was able to reach the target populations in rural areas of Siem Reap and Pursat The partnerships also facilitated an extensive training program of partners and providers on diarrheal ... Cambodian mothers and caregivers in the day to day care of their children and treating diarrhea The docudrama covered a range of sanitation and hygiene issues including causes, prevention, and ... expired, and banned drugs are available in the marketplace For example, caregivers can still purchase a sachet of loperamide that is advertised for infants, but was outlawed from the international market...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... leaf area is terminated by the autumn phenological stage (autumn yellowing of leaves) According to budbreak 10% beginning of foliage formation 10% beginning of foliage formation 50% beginning of ... Picea abies (L.) Karst 2004 Day of year budbreak 10% beginning of foliage formation 50% fully developed leaf area 100% leaf colouring 100% beginning of foliage formation 10% beginning of foliage ... 150 100 50 Year average annual air temperature air temperature in the growing season annual precipitation percipitation Fig 10 Average annual air temperatures and annual precipitation in 1990–2007...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... neopterin is a marker of CNS macrophage activation (presumably including both brain and meningeal populations) that increases with disease severity and is especially elevated in HIVE/HAD [11,38] ... minocycline treatment The horizontal bar in panel A indicates the period of minocycline treatment Panels show the mean changes from baseline and 95% confidence intervals for CSF (A) and plasma ... concentrations as indices of CNS infection and immunoactivation [38] Change from baseline was calculated at weeks four and eight after initiation of minocycline treatment and after a 6-week wash-out...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... variable years of education was used as a measure of premorbid intelligence Data analyses Data analyses were carried out using the SPSS software (version 15.0 for Windows) An alpha level of 0.05 was ... cognitive and clinical scores were analyzed using an analysis of variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures Cognitive performance at T1 and T2 were the dependent variables and the type of APD was the independent ... conventional and atypical APDs: demographic, outcome, pharmacological, and clinical variables Conventional APD Atypical APD t P Mean SD Mean SD Age 33.69 10.03 32.69 7.49 0.350 0.728 Years of education...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... overweight and obesity treatment facilities in Germany (n = 480) that agreed The family affluence scale (FAS) was employed to measure familial SES in an age-appropriate way [26,27] The scale includes indicators ... limitation in this study is the lack of differentiation among inpatient and outpatient programs Additionally, our findings that showed a higher impairment in inpatients may be limited to Germany In particular, ... between patients by gender and age group Significant mean differences in HRQOL between inpatients and outpatients were explored using one-way analyses of variance Univariate generalized linear models...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... minute) during controlled mechanical ventilation (Drägerwerk AG, Lübeck, Germany) after endotracheal intubation, via an intravenous peripheral line One gram of cephazoline was administered as infection ... (Decapsmart, Medica srl, Medolla (Modena), Italy) and treatment was started No changes in ventilatory setting were made during the treatment A bolus of 2,000 UI of heparin was administered intravenously, ... none of them demonstrated a clear superiority and became the standard Pharmacologic approaches included nitric oxide inhalation, surfactant replacement therapy, antioxidants, prostaglandins, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... desloratadine, ebastine, or fexofenadine to loratadine or cetirizine was mandated In addition, differences in efficacy and tolerability among agents can only be determined through head-tohead, ... preparation of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests Medical writing and editorial assistance was provided by Carol Sibley and Patricia C Abramo of ... Organization: EAACI/GA2LEN/EDF/WAO guideline: management of urticaria Allergy 2009, 64:1427-1443 Bachert C, Maurer M: Safety and efficacy of desloratadine in subjects with seasonal allergic rhinitis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... death and inappropriate care in a rural state J Trauma 2003, 54:663-9 Chiara O, Scott JD, Cimbanassi S, Marini A, Zoia R, Rodriguez A, Scalea T, Milan Trauma Care Study Group: Trauma deaths in an ... described in a Canadian study where 49% of the internal medicine residents felt inadequately trained to lead a cardiac arrest team [19] Validity and Transferability The initial aim of our study was ... Medical Education 2006, 11:1098-1104 Barie PS: Leading and managing in unmanageable times J Trauma 2005, 59:803-814 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Scandinavian Journal of Trauma,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... stress and transplantation also play roles in maintaining the bone quality of transplanted allogenic bone from the donor The results of the above experiment suggest that even after transplanting ... in rats differs from that in humans, in that the growth plates in rats remain open later into adult life, though the growth rate at 10 weeks of age is a fraction of the rate at weeks of age [21,22] ... humans, and rather, emphasize that these findings need to be confirmed in a clinical setting Chiu et al [12], in a similar study involving limb transplantation between animals of different ages,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... support work, information regarding local services, training in managing clinical aggression, Mental Health First Aid Training [24] and suicide risk management training (Applied Suicide Intervention ... questions included in a treatment questionnaire (see below) and via a telephone call made by the RA to the new treating clinician asking about attendance at appointments and medication adherence ... nature of the PSW contacts with participants It will also ensure that the research team are fully aware when discharge planning commences and the exact point of discharge for each participant and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... (by a factor of 4.3) of a preharvesting serum creatinine level above 120 μmol/L • A large volume of mannitol is associated with a twofold risk of a rise of more than 20% in serum creatinine levels ... software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) for analysis of the results Quantitative variables are presented in the form of mean ± standard deviation Qualitative variables are expressed as percentages ... In agreement with our result, a recent study showed that the use of epinephrine in donors was associated with a negative influence on the graft quality after transplantation [13] Page of (page...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... (sitting, standing, walking, kneeling/squatting) as well as the prevalence of certain job characteristics (for example, climbing stairs, jumping, lifting/carrying of loads, time pressure) was assessed ... package-years), Table 1: Distribution of cases and controls Age at inclusion in study (years) Gender Cases n Mean Standard deviation Age used for exposure analysis (years) Mean Standard deviation 438 ... influence of genetic factors of OA derived from classic twin studies [6] They indicated that the influence of genetic factors was 39 to 65% in knee/ hand OA, 60% in hip OA, and 70% in spine OA According...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... Tattersfield AE, Knox AJ, Britton JR, Hall IP: Asthma Lancet 2002, 360:1313-1322 National Institute of Health: Global Initiative for Asthma – Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention (GINA) ... with asthma had the highest average of FENO levels Patients with COPD and with an overlap of COPD and asthma were significantly older and had more pack years of smoking than asthma patients (p ... physical examination, bodyplethysmography and bronchial provocation results Data Analysis Baseline data is presented descriptively Two-by-two contingency tables of FENO values vs asthma diagnoses...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... significantly reduced in the DAA+ group (*: P = 0.008, Mann-Whitney test) than in the control group of DAA may indicate that a standard dosage of DAA fails to affect outcome Increased plasma concentration ... (T1) and after a 36-h DAA infusion (T2) Box and whiskers plots show median and interquartile range (25 to 75) Fold change is calculated as the ratio (T2-T1)/T1 DAA: drotrecogin alpha activated ... contraindicated to rhAPC treatment T1, time-point before DAA infusion; T2, time-point 36 h after infusion of DAA The P-value, analysis of variance for repeated data (T1 and T2) NS, non-significant Lavaux...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... reported study found V+ in 41% of adult migraineurs self-selecting to participate in a research study 16 Future research in this area should include a larger number of subjects Also, it may be of interest ... either reduce or increase anxiety during testing Table Demographics of the subject group Subject Number Age Gender Aura/No Aura Diagnosis 32 39 37 Female Female Female Aura No Aura Aura Vertigo Vertigo ... Facial pain increases nausea and headache during motion sickness in migraine sufferers Brain 2004;127(Pt 3):526-34 Brandt T, Strupp M Migraine and vertigo: Classification, clinical features, and...

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