Abstract In this study, the parenting practices of adults who are legal guardians youths referred to Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infantojuvenil (Psychosocial Care Center for Children and Adolescents) due use psychoactive substances and/or aggression (Referral Group) were compared with have never been (Non-Referral Group). Forty participants from Non-Referral Group 17 Referral answered a soci...

Methods A case record audit was conducted at Government Kilpauk Medical College having two burn units; one at the Kilpauk medical college Hospital and the other at Government Royapettah Hospital. Emergency department registers, burn center registers and case sheets of patients with burns who attended the Emergency Department, from January 2013 to December 2013 were studied. The adherence to nat...

OBJECTIVES To correlate the recurrence of temporalis fascia graft perforation and retraction in adults and children after tympanoplasty for chronic tubotympanic otitis and deep attic retraction pockets with age, pathologic process, mucosal lesions, mucociliary transport time, chronic sinusitis, and lateral attic wall reconstruction. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary referral cent...

INTRODUCTION Uganda scaled-up Early HIV Infant Diagnosis (EID) when simplified methods for testing of infants using dried blood spots (DBS) were adopted in 2006 and sample transport and management was therefore made feasible in rural settings. Before this time only 35% of the facilities that were providing EID services were reached through the national postal courier system, Posta Uganda. The t...

Background: To determine if postal testing kits (PTK) and patient delivered partner therapy (PDPT) for managing sexual partners of women with Chlamydia tracho-matis, reduce re-infection rates in women, compared to partner notification by patient referral. Materials and Methods: Three hundred and thirty women testing positive for chlamydia, at clinics for genitourinary medicine, family planning ...

Yan Xiao is an associate professor of anesthesiology and information systems and a special member of the faculty of the school of business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his doctoral degree in human factors from the University of Toronto in 1994. To contact Dr. Xiao, e-mail [email protected]. nologies are not readily available during transport of critically ill patie...

BACKGROUND Early initiation of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) for the treatment of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) has been shown to improve outcomes. Many of these patients require transport to treatment facilities. At the time of the study, there were no servo-controlled devices approved for flight that allowed for active cooling of the neonate during air transport. PURPOSE To introduce...

BACKGROUND Pakistan is far behind in achieving the Millennium Development Goals regarding the reduction of child and maternal mortality. Amongst other factors, transport barriers make the requisite obstetric care inaccessible for women during pregnancy and at birth, when complications may become life threatening for mother and child. The significance of efficient transport in maternal and neona...