Our purpose was to determine mortality and morbidity rates and selected outcome variables for infants weighing less than 1500 g, who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of our hospital from 1997 to 2000. The ultimate goal of the study was to define a model for developing a regional database. Information on all very low birth weight (VLBW) admissions to a tertiary level neonatal in...

A 75-year-old man was referred to renal services in 2008 with a creatinine of 168mmol/l and an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 35ml/min/1.73m. He had a past history of hypertension and carcinoma of the prostate previously treated with radiotherapy. There was no history of diabetes or cardiovascular disease. On referral, he was taking perindopril 8mg, doxazosin 4mg and bendroflume...

Longwall coal mine operators in the U.S. are required to ventilate multipanel longwall districts, but may have little or no knowledge about what happens to the ventilation air between the inlet evaluation points (IEPs), bleeder evaluation points (BEPs) and bleeder fans. The effectiveness of bleeder performance can directly influence the ability of a ventilation system to remove and dilute coal ...

BACKGROUND Mother-infant separation post birth is common. In standard hospital care, newborn infants are held wrapped or dressed in their mother's arms, placed in open cribs or under radiant warmers. Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) begins ideally at birth and should last continually until the end of the first breastfeeding. SSC involves placing the dried, naked baby prone on the mother's bare chest,...

more than 4 million liters of hazardous and radioactive waste in the vadose zone. Relatively mobile radionuAccelerated migration of contaminants in the vadose zone has clides such as 99Tc, 129I, U, and 3H have traveled further been observed beneath tank farms at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Reservation, Richland, WA. This paper focuses on quantifythan predicted by current models and ...

cally, water is assumed to be immobile at the residualwater saturation. In the petroleum industry, the residAt many contaminated sites, nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) ual-water saturation is also called the irreducible-water persist in the vadose zone for long periods of time. This occurs because the permeability of the NAPL becomes negligible at some saturation saturation. This terminology h...

OBJECTIVE Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) remains the number 1 cause of postneonatal infant death. Prone infant sleep position and maternal smoking have been established as risk factors for SIDS mortality. Some studies have found that bedsharing is associated with SIDS, but, to date, there is only strong evidence for a risk among infants of smoking mothers and some evidence of a risk among ...

The number of children who are abandoned or orphaned around the world is rapidly increasing owing to war, AIDS, and poverty.Many of these children are placed in institutional settings for lack of individual or societal resourcesor becauseof long-standing cultural traditions. It hasbeenknown for overhalf a century that rearing children in institutional care characterized by profound sensory, cog...

There have been calls for research evidence to be drawn into police practice. We examine evidence-based practice in the policing and crime reduction agenda, drawing on the experience of implementing problem-oriented policing in the UK and beyond. We suggest that that the development of such an agenda has been hampered by certain factors. Evidence is not routinely used by police officers (or par...

Injury is the leading killer of children in the United States, yet little research has focused on this vital subject. One of the distinct barriers to injury prevention is the absence of effective assessment devices. Epidemiological aspects of injury have been assessed, but these provide little information at a level suffi cient to allow conclusions about potential behavioral prevention methods....