PURPOSE The objective of this study was to examine the factors associated with initiation and continuation of breastfeeding among Korean women in relation to their employment status. METHODS Data were collected using a web-based self-administered questionnaire from 1,031 Korean mothers living in Seoul with babies younger than 24 months. Demographic characteristics, education on breastfeeding,...

This report describes a rooming-in program based on allocation of resources to patients in accord with their health needs. It outlines the advantages of having the healthy infant kept with the mother continually during the puerperium. This promotes easier psychological adaptation of mother and infant, reduces the incidence of cross-infection in the hospital, encourages breast-feeding, and pav...

Andrea Ronchi, MD; Carlo Pietrasanta, Maurizio Zavattoni, Martina Saruggia, Federico Schena, Maria Teresa Sinelli, Massimo Agosti, Chryssoula Tzialla, Felicia Filomena Varsalone, Lea Testa, Claudia Ballerini, Stefania Ferrari, Giovanna Mangili, Luisa Ventura, Simona Perniciaro, Elena Spada, PhD; Lunghi, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Fabio Mosca, Lorenza Pugni, MD

The perioperative course of 41 patients undergoing 85 endoscopic laser resections of central airway lesions under general anaesthesia was reviewed. The CO2 laser was used in 60 procedures and the Nd:YAG in 25. Intravenous anaesthesia and Venturi ventilation were utilized for 65 resections; 20 procedures involved predominantly inhalation anaesthesia via the ventilating bronchoscope. Significant ...

BACKGROUND To analyze diagnostic accuracy of prompt post mortem Computed Tomography (pmCT) in determining causes of death in patients who died during trauma room management and to compare the results to gold standard autopsy during office hours. METHODS Multiple injured patients who died during trauma room care were enrolled. PmCT was performed immediately followed by autopsy during office ho...

This special issue brings together a collection of papers examining the legal dimensions housing precarity. While we originally imagined focused on homelessness and human rights, agree with our contributors that precarity sits along disparate spectrum, at one end. People weave in out living situations, whether shelters, apartments, rooming houses, encampments. Human their violation, are engaged...

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the practices that favor breastfeeding performed in Rooming-In area and satisfaction with care received according discharge on exclusive breastfeeding. Method: a quantitative study conducted between July 2020 September 2021 maternity teaching hospital from southern Brazil; total of 756 puerperal women participated by means an online questionnaire 20 days after di...

BACKGROUND There are continued concerns over an adequate supply of family physicians (FPs) practicing in Canada. While most resource planning has focused on intake into postgraduate education, less information is available on what postgraduate medical training yields. We therefore undertook a study of Family Medicine (FM) graduates from the University of Toronto (U of T) to determine the type o...