Whatever the etiology of colic in infancy, and multiple causes seem most likely, there is little doubt that emotional factors enter the picture. Whether these constitute one of the causes of colic on only intensify it, is at present impossible to determine. Some investigators have found the colicky infant to he hypertonic, tense, fussy, unhappy even before the onset of specific symptoms. McGee ...

AIM The purpose of the study is to assess the influence of prone or supine position on sleep states and on withdrawal and approach reactions of preterm infants. METHODS Thirty-two preterm infants from Meir Medical Center, Israel, mean post menstrual age 30.37±2.57, mean birth weight 1250g±313.86, participated in the study. Infants were studied during 48h. Positions (prone and supine) were alt...

A 34-day-old previously healthy boy born full term presented to the emergency department with fever at home (38.1°C), fussiness, and decreased oral intake for 1 day. He was difficult to console at home. He had decreased oral intake without emesis, diarrhea, or a change in urine output. He did not have rhinorrhea, cough, or increased work of breathing noted by parents. He lived at home with his ...

In Denmark emergency departments are newly established and still in a process of devising their procedures and technology support. Electronic whiteboards are a means of supporting clinicians in creating and maintaining the overview necessary to provide quality treatment of patients. The concrete meaning of the notion of overview is, however, fussy. To explore the notion of overview and how it m...

Purpose The pertinent information about green buildings (GB) is laden with cost misperceptions (CM) that are paraded into adoption decisions without factual clarifications. unsupported beliefs fundamental to the disparaging low of related technologies globally. purpose this paper explore causes CMs among construction stakeholders and why it difficult discredit information? Design/methodology/ap...

the man who commits a crime knowing that what he is doing is wrong but nevertheless takes a chance that he will get away with it. From here we passed on to consider the limitations of the help that the psychiatrist and the mental health services can give, realising that to ask for a psychiatric report can never solve the probation officers problem as if by waving a magic wand. Indeed it may rai...

OBJECTIVES To identify the etiological agent in bacterial conjunctivitis and to determine the antibiogram of bacterial isolates. METHODOLOGY This observational study was conducted at Dr. Essa's Laboratory over a period of 12 months ending in March 2012. Two hundred samples taken from conjunctiva of patients with conjunctivitis were cultured on routine medium and the antibiograms of bacterial ...

Ladusaw (1979), Carlson (1980), and Linebarger (1987) have all argued that negative-polarity any is an existential quanti er that surfaces in certain environments, notably in the scope of negation. Similarly, Kadmon & Landman (1993) interpret it as an inde nite with existential force. On these analyses (1b) is the correct LF. I will refer to these diverse accounts collectively as the 9-account....

This 6-week-old girl was seen in the emergency room due to constipation and increased fussiness. She had tactile fever the night before admission, but her mother hadn’t taken her temperature. She had no bowel movements for the previous 2 days. Normally, she had three to fi ve formed bowel movements each day. She had been eating normally but was fussier over the past several days. In addition, s...

A 33-month-old girl presented with 3 days of fever and 1 day of multiple paroxysmal episodes of screaming with apparent unresponsiveness, flexed lower extremities, clenched hands, and upward eye deviation. These events lasted seconds to a minute at a time and occurred only during sleep. She slept peacefully between episodes and was easily awakened. She had a history of mild speech delay and mil...