Targeting Lead Screening: The Ohio Lead Risk Score

Targeting lead screening: The Ohio Lead Risk Score.

OBJECTIVE Annual blood lead (BPb) screening is recommended for children </=2 years of age residing in high-risk areas. Strategies for identifying these areas exist but lack specificity. We sought to develop an efficient method for identifying risk factors for undue lead exposure in children by using community variables. DESIGN Logistic regression for model development in one half of the sampl...

Lead intoxication associated with chewing plastic wire coating--Ohio.

Lead Intoxication — Continued In December 1991, a venous blood lead level (BLL) of 50 μg/dL was detected in a 46-year-old Ohio man during a routine pre-employment examination. He was referred to a university-based pharmacology and toxicology clinic for further evaluation; clinic physicians investigated the case. Although a repeat BLL obtained 1 month later was 51 μg/dL, he reported no exposure ...

Lead aVR--the neglected lead.

The aVR is often neglected lead. It is an unipolar lead facing the right superior surface. As all the depolarisations are going away from lead aVR, all waves are negative in aVR (P, QRS, T) in normal sinus rhythm. In dextrocardia, (True and technical) the p is upright in aVR. The lead aVR is a very important lead in localisation of Coronary Artery Disease. In the presence of anterior ST elevati...

Taking the lead on lead.

ICD lead abandonment is without risk? A case of “lead on lead crime”

Introduction Lead failure rates of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) vary depending on design and composition, and can be as high as 40% a few years post implant. The Sprint Fidelis lead (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) was recalled in 2007 because it is prone to fracture, particularly to its pacesense conductor, which predisposes patients to inappropriate shocks; its yearly failure ra...