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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"Pediatric Patients"”.
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Vascular Access in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Obesity
Background: Pediatric obesity is associated with poor outcomes for hospitalized children. Vascular access is essential in critically ill patients. Our aim was to evaluate whether critically ill patients with obesity are more likely to undergo CVC insertion and develop related complications.
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Radiation Dose Estimation for Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization
<p>Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are potentially at risk of radiation-induced health effects from the interventional fluoroscopic X-ray imaging used throughout the clinical procedure. The amount of radiation exposure is highly dependent on the complexity of the procedure and the level …
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Supporting everyday self-management practices for pediatric patients with epilepsy
… challenges for people living with epilepsy. Many patients and caregivers struggle to adopt important epilepsy self-management behaviors due to the burden of data collection and reporting. New mobile health sensing and data input capabilities could provide opportunities for facilitating aspects of …
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Adverse Effects of Asparaginase in Pediatric Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
… E.coli asparaginase) IgG antibodies in 410 pediatric patients treated on an asparaginaseintensive front-line clinical trial. Of 169 patients (41.2%) who exhibited clinical allergy, 147 (87.0%) were positive for anti-Elspar antibody. Of 241 patients without clinical allergy, 89 (36.9%) had …
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Mid-upper arm circumference and nutritional risk in macrocephalic pediatric patients
… assessment and diagnosis of malnutrition in pediatric patients is dependent on anthropometric measurements. In macrocephalic children, current anthropometric measures may fail to correctly diagnose malnutrition. The purpose of this study is to determine if the measurement of mid-upper arm …
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Preventing and Treating Complications of Sickle Cell Disease in Pediatric Patients
… Treating Complications of Sickle Cell Disease in Pediatric Patients Sickle cell anemia, also known as sickle cell disease, affects over 90,000 people in the United States alone with those of African descent being at greater risk (Dobson & Byrne, 2014). Worldwide, it affects over 30 million people …
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Perceptions of Emergency Physicians in Japan in Managing Acutely Ill Pediatric Patients
… physicians in Japan in managing acutely ill pediatric patients in the emergency department (ED). Based on the hypothesis that 50% or more participants did not feel confident, the secondary objective was to describe their underlying perceptions and barriers they faced in managing acutely Ill …
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Automating The Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Process For Pediatric Patients With Medulloblastoma
<p>Over the past 50 years, pediatric cancer 5-year survival rates increased from 20% to 80% in high-income countries, however, these trends have not been mirrored in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). This is due in part to delayed diagnosis, higher rates of advanced disease at presentation …
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Care Coordination for Pediatric Patients at Federally Qualified Health Centers in Arizona
… understood and practiced care coordination for pediatric patients and identified the relationship between FQHC location and levels of care coordination activities, using an ecological model. The findings suggest that neither the personnel’s occupational title nor the FQHC location is a …
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Burnout and Job stress in Emergency room nurses caring for Pediatric Patients
본 연구는 소아환자를 돌보는 응급실 간호사의 직무스트레스와 소진을 파악하고, 이들 간의 관계를 확인하여 소아환자를 돌보는 응급실 간호사의 직무스트레스와 소진을 감소시킬 수 있는 근무환경 조성을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도된 서술적 상관관계 연구이다. 1. 대상자의 직무스트레스 정도는 5점 만점에 평균 3.60점(±0.55)으로 나타났으며, 영역별로는 ‘보호자와 환자 관련 사항’이 4.05(±0.72)으로 가장 높았으며, ‘부적절한 물리적 환경’이 3.37점(±0.74)으로 가장 낮게 나타났다. 2. 대상자의 소진 정도는 5점 …
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The acute effects of propranolol on metabolic dysfunction in severely burned pediatric patients
… decades have shown benefit of propranolol use in pediatric burned patients, but much is still unknown about the acute metabolic changes related to propranolol and burn injury. In this study we used stable isotope infusion techniques to analyze acute metabolism in the first few weeks after severe …
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Delineation of the genetic causes of complex epilepsies in South African pediatric patients
… uncertain significance (VUS) were detected in 12 patients. Of the 41 children with P/LP variants, 26/234(11%) had variants supporting precision therapy. Multivariate regression modelling highlighted neonatal or infantile-onset seizures with movement abnormalities and attention difficulties as …
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A Family-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
… cognitive-behavioral family treatment (CBFT) for pediatric patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) to improve pain symptoms, health-related quality of life, functionality, depression, and coping strategies. Individual cognitive-behavioral treatment has been shown previously to be effective at …
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Providing Safe Gastric Feedings In Pediatric Patients On High Flow Nasal Cannula Respiratory Support
<p>Purpose: HFNC is used to manage pediatric respiratory distress, but concerns aboutgastric air insufflation and aspiration risk lead to delayed feedings. There is no standardized practice guiding gastric feedings in children on HFNC. This project developed and implemented a decision tree to guide …
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Effect of Severe Burn Injury on Body Composition and Muscle Metabolism in Pediatric Patients
… data collected prospectively from two cohorts of patients: 24 patients who underwent dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans from 2000 to 2016 and 268 patients who underwent metabolic studies from 1999 to 2008. All patients were treated and studied at Shriners Hospitals for Children, …
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Information Use with Paper and Electronic Nursing Documentation by Nurses Caring for Pediatric Patients
… the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients. The literature to support the use of electronic nursing documentation on the quality of care delivered to patients is limited to date. Additionally, the literature describing the use of information for the delivery of care on paper-based …
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Biomarker Profiling of Appendicitis in Pediatric Patients by Metabolomics, Metallomics and Inflammatory Mediator Profiling
… common non-traumatic surgical presentation in Pediatric Emergency Departments. The diagnosis of appendicitis is quite challenging in children due to multifactorial barriers resulting in delayed or missed diagnosis, which may either lead to severe complications requiring advanced management and …
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The germs inside me: Pediatric patients' conceptualization of illness and regulation of emotions during hospitalization
… systems of emotions. Using a sample of 26 pediatric patients and 26 adult informants, the current study explored the complex relationship between emotional regulation and the conceptualization of illness among children, from the ages of three to five, in the management of a hospital …
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Clinical Characteristics of the Pediatric Patients with Pre-natally and Post-natally Diagnosed Choledochal Cysts
… We retrospectively reviewed the records of 31 pediatric patients with the choledochal cysts surgically treated between June 1994 and April 2010 at the department of surgery, Ajou university hospital. The patients were divided into two groups with accordance to the time of diagnosis: pre-natally …
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Characterization of human astrovirus in pediatric patients with diarrhea from rural communities of Limpopo South Africa
… A total of 9/10 (90%) HAstVs cases were from outpatients. The sequence analyses revealed HAstV genotype 1 and 2. A putative recombinant strain was found. Phylogenetic analysis revealed strain’s relatedness to others circulating in the African continent. Conclusion: This is the first study to …
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