Mantoux Sensitivity in Sick Children

Sick Children

Sick sinus syndrome in children.

The ages of 6 male patients with the sick sinus syndrome ranged from 10-15 years when their symptoms began. At rest all had a heart rate of 60/min or less. Two had syncopal attacks which threatened life; 1 had only attacks of dizziness; the other 3 had no syncopal attacks but had recurrent attacks of supraventricular tachycardia ('brady-tachycardia syndrome') which were more resistant to drug t...

Blood cultures in sick children.

BACKGROUND Blood cultures (BCs) are frequently performed in sick children. A recent audit of BCs among adult patients documented high rates of contamination by coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS). OBJECTIVES To describe BC contamination rates and common pathogenic organisms causing bloodstream infection in children at a tertiary- level children's hospital. METHODS BC results for childre...

Simultaneous Mantoux and Vollmer patch tests in 855 school children.

In March 1955, a comparative study of the results of the (Mantoux) intracutaneous tuberculin test, and the patch test, (Vollmer) was carried on in two Los Angeles schools. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the patch should be substituted for the intracutanous test, allowing greater ease of administration, decreased expense, and lessened work load. The schools chosen were...

Nursing sick children.