Sir, The recording of a patients respiratory rate is an integral part of trauma scoring. Yet 10% of MTOS patients are excluded from TRISS analysis, most because one or more of the revized trauma score variables has not been assessed or recorded (Cope et al., 1989). We should like to draw attention to a respiratory rate monitor (available from Simonsen and Weel Ltd). The unit detects respiration...

Background: Respiratory distress is considered one of the most frequent causes of admission in the neonatal unit. Additionally, it is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to determine the incidence of neonatal respiratory distress and its causes, risk factors, and outcomes to have a baseline data about the magnitude of respiratory distress with a further step ...

introduction: among infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit, excessive noise is correlated with increases in heart rate, increase in respiratory rate, decrease in oxygen saturation a s well as sleep disturbances. apart from overcoming the noise in the environment, music is believed to enhance the infant’s general well-being, reduce its stress and   unpleasant symptoms. this stu...

background : to assess the practicability of a new algorithm in decreasing the rate of incorrect diagnoses and inappropriate antibiotic usage in pediatric acute respiratory tract infection (arti ( methods : children between 1 month to15 years brought to outpatient clinics of a children’s hospital with acute respiratory symptoms were managed according to the steps recommended in the algorithm . ...