Feeding mediastinostomy!

Anesthetic Management of Patients With Anterior Mediastinal Masses Undergoing Chamberlain Procedure (Anterior Mediastinostomy)

Patients with mediastinal masses, particularly masses in the anterior or superior mediastinum present unique problems for the anesthesiologists which are during general anesthesia, which are usually the consequence of extrinsic compression of the airway, obstruction of the venous return or obstruction to the output of the heart (1-4). The aim of our study was to describe the anesthetic manageme...

Sham Feeding? Same Feeding?

accepted, more obvious evidence is needed. In PPI, return of colonic motility is a hindmost concern; it takes 48 to 72 hours. Sham feeding enhances gastric emptying and increases rectosigmoid pressure activity. However, the influence of gum chewing on colonic motility is not clear. Alvimopan, a peripherally-acting μ-opioid receptor antagonist, was recently approved for the reduction of PPI afte...

Infant Feeding and Feeding Difficulties (Churchill)

Mothers’ Narratives of their Infants’ Feeding Problems and Comparing Infant Feeding Styles

Background & Aims: The purpose of the present study was to compare feeding problems, infant eating behavior, and feeding styles between infants with and without feeding problems according to their mothers’ narratives. Methods: In this casual-comparative study, 50 mother-infant dyads were selected using convenient sampling. The infants’ ages ranged between 6 to 12 months. After matching, the inf...

Representing infant feeding: content analysis of British media portrayals of bottle feeding and breast feeding.

OBJECTIVE To examine how breast feeding and bottle feeding are represented by the British media. DESIGN Content analysis. SUBJECTS Television programmes and newspaper articles that made reference to infant feeding during March 1999. SETTING UK mass media. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Visual and verbal references to breast or bottle feeding in newspapers and television programmes. RESULTS Ove...