Problem solving is recognized as a skill, helping families of children with disabilities to manage problems in everyday life. Family problem-solving skills may therefore be seen as an important outcome of a child and youth habilitation service. The aim of this pilot feasibility study was to examine the design of ...

INTRODUCTION: Respiratory failure following chemical exposure can be fatal and although supraglottic airway devices have been evaluated for use in the management of CBRN casualties' intubation remains the gold standard airway. METHODS: This is a randomised cross-over study involving 66 paramedic students utilising the following intubating aids bougie, stylet, McCoy ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, European cities faced a problem well known in postindependence India: the population escalated due to immigration from the rural areas causing rapid and considerable housing shortage. This forced large parts of the poorer classes into miserable living conditions. Lack of space, money ...

Abstract Objective: To obtain descriptions of the experience of growing up with a cleft-related speech impairment and how it was dealt with. Design: Semi-structured interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using a qualitative approach inspired by Grounded Theory methodology. Setting: Interviews took place at participants' homes, workplaces or the ...

Little is known about the long-term mental health of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) (<1000 g) survivors. We test whether young adults aged 22 to 26 years born at ELBW differ from normal birth weight (NBW) controls in self-reported levels of psychopathology.MethodParticipants included 142 ELBW survivors (86% response) born between ...

Le présent article présente une méthode simple et pratique de détection des atélectasies intéressant un seul lobe sur les radiographies thoraciques frontales. Il s'agit en fait d'une méthode de mouvements des doigts appelée « V V O I ». Celle-ci consiste en fait en quatre mouvements simples qui permettent de ...

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This paper and the ensuing series present the principles guiding and affecting the ability of drugs to produce therapeutic benefit or untoward harm. The principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, the physiologic basis of adverse drug reactions and suitable antidotal therapy, and the biologic basis of drug allergy, drug-drug interactions, pharmacogenetics, ...

We are all born with a varying assortment of biomechanical discrepancies. Ordinarily these may be of no consequence, but to those who try to achieve excellence in a certain sport these discrepancies can spell the difference between success and failure. Some athletes may have to accept the fact that biomechanically ...

The density of human erythrocytes infected in vitro with Plasmodium falciparum has been measured by isopycnic centrifugation in colloidal silica gradients. The densities of uninfected cells, rings, trophozoites, young schizonts, and mature schizonts were approximately 1.110, 1.110, 1.106, 1.097, and 1.090 g/ml, respectively. This information has been used to design ...

Carcinogenicity of seven homologs of N-alkyl-N'-nitrosoguanidine (N-alkyl-NNG), namely, N-methyl-NNG, N-propyl-NNG, N-butyl-NNG, N-isobutyl-NNG, N-pentyl-NNG, and N-hexyl-NNG, was examined by injecting the compounds subcutaneously into rats. All of them except N-isobutyl-NNG and N-hexyl-NNG were carcinogenic, but N-ethyl-NNG followed by N-methyl-NNG were stronger carcinogens than those with longer alkyl chains.

1. The pharmacological activities of the optical isomers of salbutamol have been examined. (-)-Salbutamol was much more potent than (+)-salbutamol on beta-adrenoceptors.2. Both (-)- and (+)-salbutamol showed high selectivity for beta-adrenoceptors in bronchial muscle compared to cardiac muscle, in this way resembling racemic salbutamol.3. The use of isomeric activity ratio ...

Patterns of intrinsic birefringence were revealed in formalin-fixed, glycerinated myofibrils from rabbit striated muscle, by perfusing them with solvents of refractive index near to that of protein, about 1.570. The patterns differ substantially from those obtained in physiological salt solutions, due to the elimination of edge- and form birefringence. Analysis ...

Study of the serum creatine kinase levels in young patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy suggests that enzyme assay may be valuable as a screening procedure for assessing the status of relatives of an affected individual who have no previous clinical history, and that consequently it may be of use in ...

Twenty-five renal and three skin biopsies from 14 cases of systemic lupus erythematosus with lupus nephritis were examined by electron microscope. Seventy-five renal biopsies from nonlupus cases consisting of 35 adults and 40 children were used for comparative study. Clusters of cytoplasmic microtubules, which have been referred to as virus-like ...

Four adults had varicella pneumonitis. All developed respiratory symptoms within a week of the exanthem. Cough and/or dyspnea, cyanosis and chest pain were common. Radiological signs of disease were more marked than physical signs. A slight polymorphonuclear leukocytosis and normal sputum culture were usual. One man with mild symptoms recovered. ...

Ionic relationships in the giant ameba Chaos chaos were studied by analyzing bulk preparations of ground cytoplasm for K, Na, and Cl. Ion levels under normal conditions were compared with the levels in cells exposed to varying concentrations of different ions, for varying times and at different temperatures. By standard ...