Background: To determine whether using mechanical ventilation in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) influences motor development of low birth weight (LBW) infants and to compare their motor development with normal birth weight (NBW) infants at the age of 8 to 12 months using Peabody Developmental Motor Scale 2 (PDMS-2). Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted on 70 LBW infants in ...

Introduction: Inguinal hernia is a more frequent problem in male infants with an increased incidence twin ones. Prematurity considered as risk factor. During open surgery of under general anesthesia, there high apnea especially the preterm infants. Caudal anesthesia could been effective approach for induction and analgesia. Case presentation: Here, we presented three two-months-old (3.5-3.9 kg)...

In the past decades, multiple studies have been interested in developmental patterns of the visual system in healthy infants. During the first year of life, differential maturational changes have been observed between the Magnocellular (P) and the Parvocellular (P) visual pathways. However, few studies investigated P and M system development in infants born prematurely. The aim of the present s...

Objectives: To find out the common causes of poisoning in infants and children. Methodology: In a retrospective cross-sectional study we evaluated all infants & children who were hospitalized due to acute poisoning between 2001 to 2004 in two Ahwaz university hospitals. Results: One hundred forty three cases were evaluated, 71% of poisonings occurred in the age range of 1-5 years. Causes were a...

OBJECTIVE To establish evidence-based guidelines for growth monitoring on a population basis. STUDY DESIGN Several auxological referral criteria were formulated and applied to longitudinal growth data from four different patient groups, as well as three samples from the general population. RESULTS Almost 30% of pathology can be detected by height standard deviation score (HSDS) below -3 or ...

Perhaps Needham and Baillargeon would be surprised to ®nd that we are in complete agreement on many important points, including: (1) at issue is the nature of infants' representations of events and objects, and how infants parse the world into individuals and kinds; (2) looking time methodologies are a fruitful source of data that bear on these issues; (3) under some circumstances, infants belo...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of perceptual-motor and music enrichment of environment on the development of fine and gross motor movements in infants. 32 healthy infants (5 to 8 months old) participated in this study and were divided homogenously into four groups (each group 8 subjects): three experimental groups and one control group. experimental groups had 36 training s...