October 2008
36 posts
[Review] Behavioural Aspects of Children's Sleep →
There is good empirical evidence to suggest that behavioural factors play a role in the onset/maintenance of many childhood sleeplessness problems and that behaviour therapy can be used as an…
[Original articles] A Week by Week Analysis of the... →
Objective: To examine the reliability of “low risk” criteria (LRC) to exclude serious bacterial infection (SBI) in febrile neonates (≤ 28 days), according to age in weeks.
Design:…
[Original articles] Nutritional recovery in HIV... →
Objective: Few studies have reported on nutritional recovery, survival and growth among severely malnourished children with HIV. This study explores nutritional recovery in HIV infected and…
[Original articles] A randomized trial to evaluate... →
Objective: To compare the accuracy of prescribing analgesic and anti-emetic drugs to children when using either the 2006 BNF for Children (BNFC) or a new device, the Paediatric Analgesia Wheel.
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Proud to be Maldivian
Today, the people of Maldives and our politicians, have shown the entire world the very best examples of democracy.
I, as a Maldivian, am extremely proud of both president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and president-elect Mohamed Nasheed, one showing great character and grace in conceding defeat and the other equal humility in triumph, by coming out together in public to show unity and the true spirit of...
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[Original articles] Rice: a common and severe... →
Objective: To examine and compare the characteristics of children presenting with rice FPIES to those with cow’s milk/soy FPIES.
Design: This was a retrospective study of children presenting…
[Original articles] Dissection of the retrieval... →
Objectives: To examine the transport times of immediate and emergency retrievals for neonatal and paediatric patients retrieved by ground and air from general hospitals to tertiary centres.
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“I too am voting for change.”
– Because we deserve better.
Al Jazeera 101 East: The final question to...
Al Jazeera journalist Fauziya Ibrahim: You are asia's longest serving leader. You have turned Maldives from a rural fishing village to one of the top notch luxury destinations in the world. If you had the chance to do it all over again what would you do differently.
President Maumoon: I think I have done pretty well. My record shows that. I won't change anything.
[Just perfect. He'd do it all over again. Exactly the same. We'd end up exactly where we are today. Just brilliant! ]
Video: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2008/10/200810231547167782.html
On emergency medical leave. →
Dear readers, I have had to take an extended emergency medical leave. I will not be working at either IGMH or Heartline medicals atleast until the end of next week. I apologise for any inconvenience…
[Papers] Home oxygen for children with acute... →
We performed a prospective randomised controlled pilot study comparing home oxygen therapy with traditional in-patient hospitalisation for children with acute bronchiolitis. Children aged 3-24…
[Original articles] Dissection of the retrieval... →
Objectives: To examine the transport times of immediate and emergency retrievals for neonatal and paediatric patients retrieved by ground and air from general hospitals to tertiary centres.
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“29th October 2008”
– final round (via TheTumbler)
“For the record, my name was listed twice in the voter list! Under the addresses:...”
– Voter list validity???
[Original articles] Specialty-based, voluntary... →
Objectives: To examine the characteristics of incidents reported after introduction of a voluntary, non-punitive incident reporting system for neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in The…
[Leading articles] The Management of Babies born... →
Management of the delivery of an extremely preterm baby is one of the most challenging aspects of perinatal medicine. The ethical, social, economic and legal issues have recently been reviewed by…
[Original articles] Mortality of twin and... →
Objective: To determine the mortality rates of live born twins compared to singletons of less than 30 weeks’ gestation in relation to gestational age, mode of delivery and year of birth in a…
[Review] Preventing and treating invasive fungal... →
Invasive fungal infection is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Extremely preterm and extremely low birth weight infants are at highest risk due…
[Review] Postnatal CMV - innocent bystander or... →
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common pathogen, associated with mild illness in most immunocompetent individuals. Historically, research of CMV infection in the relatively immunocompromised premature…
[Leading articles] Single versus multiple... →
The first demonstration that antenatal maternal glucocorticoid treatment reduced neonatal morbidity was reported by Liggins and colleagues in 1972 (1). In the following two decades antenatal…
[Papers] Early individualised parenteral nutrition... →
Considerable effort has to be put into optimizing parenteral nutrition of preterm infants in order to limit the development of postnatal growth restriction. By using a monocentric before-and-after…
[Original articles] Phase II Meningococcal B... →
A tailor-made serogroup B outer membrane vesicle vaccine was evaluated in the context of an serogroup B meningococcal epidemic dominated by Neisseria meningitidis strain B:4:P1.7b,4.
Objective:…
[Review] Newborn screening for Medium Chain Acyl... →
Medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) is an uncommon inborn error of fatty acid oxidation that is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Newborn screening for MCADD has…
[Original articles] Is ritual circumcision a risk... →
Objective: Although circumcision is commonly believed to protect against urinary tract infection (UTI), it is not unusual in neonates in Israel, where almost all male infants are circumcised. The…
[Original articles] Management and one year... →
Objective: To report the one year outcome for newly diagnosed children with type 2 diabetes in the United Kingdom (UK).
Design: Follow up study of a UK national cohort.
Subjects: All…
[Original articles] Developmental coordination... →
Aims: To determine the prevalence of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in ‘apparently normal’ extremely premature (<29 weeks) or ELBW (<1000g) school children at 8 years of age and…
[Review] Update on antiretroviral therapy →
Combination anti-retroviral treatment (cART) has been highly successful in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV and in reducing mortality and morbidity in HIV infected children. cART is…
[Original articles] Neonatal extracorporeal... →
Objective: To review the UK neonatal ECMO service and identify predictors of outcome.
Design: Retrospective review of the national cohort.
Patients and Interventions: 718 neonates received…
[Papers] Infant feeding, solid foods and... →
Most infants in the UK start solids before the recommended age of 6 months. We assessed the independent effects of solids and breastfeeding on the risk of hospitalisation for infection in term,…
[Original articles] Atopic dermatitis in premature... →
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in premature compared to term children, to study the frequency of food allergy in children with AD, as well as the possible…
[Leading articles] When should oxygen be given to... →
Background: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) cause 3 million deaths in children worldwide each year. Most of these deaths occur from pneumonia in developing countries, and hypoxaemia is the…
[Review] Minimising medication errors in children →
Medical errors are a major problem in the UK and in other countries. Apart from the direct cost to the healthcare system, there are great personal costs to those involved including patients, their…
[Original articles] Prospective follow up-oral... →
Objectives: To determine tolerance rates to cow¡s milk and soy and to suggest guidelines for follow up-oral food challenges (FU-OFCs) in infantile food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome…
[Papers] Specialist registrars' views on their... →
This study looks at whether UK specialist registrars (SpRs) are involved in teaching and meeting their educational obligations. A questionnaire was distributed to all 133 Paediatric SpRs in the…
[Original articles] Induced sputum or gastric... →
Objectives: To compare diagnostic yield of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from induced sputum (IS) and gastric lavage (GL) among children in a community setting.
Methods: Specimen collection…