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Showing 1 to 20 of 418 for “"paediatrics"”.
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Retrospective review of paediatrics patients involved in pedestrian vehicle accidents in greater cape Town
Pedestrian vehicle injuries are a growing public health threat worldwide. In South Africa, pedestrian accidents are the leading cause of injury related deaths in children younger than 15 years. There is international and national research looking at various aspects of pedestrian vehicle accidents. …
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Transfusion practices among children undergoing cardiac surgery admitted to the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Paediatrics Intensive Care Unit
Objective- We aimed to describe the use of blood products following cardiac surgery, as well as the outcomes and factors associated with post-operative blood product use Design- Prospective, single centre observational study Setting- Paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Cape Town, South Africa …
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A dissertation and review of current knowledge on aspects relating to the use of Remifentanil to cover the tunnelling phase of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Insertion in paediatrics
In this study, the administration of remifentanil to cover the tunnelling phase of shunt insertion in children caused good attenuation of haemodynamic and endocrine markers of stress, no delay in recovery and no additional post operative respiratory depression in all age groups, including xpremies …
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Admission patterns of paediatric patients aged 0-4 years diagnosed with respiratory conditions between Emergency Department (ED) and acute paediatrics and its relationship to zero-day admissions.
… patient group who were admitted from ED to acute paediatrics with a respiratory diagnosis. Experiences and knowledge of unplanned admissions from health care professionals working in acute paediatrics were obtained via semi-structured interviews. These findings aided the development of themes …
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A study on the effect of HIV infection on the duration of the stabilization phase of children with severe acute malnutrition at the University Teaching Hospital, department of paediatrics and child health, Lusaka, Zambia
Title: The Effect of HIV Infection on the Duration of the Stabilization Phase in Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. Background: Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is a major cause of under 5 mortality in developing countries. The prevalence of …
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A study on the effect of HIV infection on the duration of the stabilization phase of children with severe acute malnutrition at the University Teaching Hospital, department of paediatrics and child health, Lusaka, Zambia
Title: The Effect of HIV Infection on the Duration of the Stabilization Phase in Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. Background: Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is a major cause of under 5 mortality in developing countries. The prevalence of …
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Mechanistic Analysis and Optimisation of Nipple Shield Drug Delivery Devices
… impact on the health of neonates, infants, and paediatrics five and younger worldwide. In order to do that, the tools and techniques necessary to understand the hydrodynamics of the system needed to be developed, and then used, to fully grasp the impact of the number of effluent holes, the size …
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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950
… of disciplines including physiology, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis. Successive chapters focus on: Depictions of pain by medical authors before the period covered in depth by the thesis; how different types of medical professional interpreted children’s pain …
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A survey of knowledge in the case management of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in children under the age of 5 years, amongst doctors and clinical nurse practitioners (CNPS) in the Khayelitsha district of Western Cape Province
… those without a post-graduate qualification in Paediatrics. The association of the use of WHO/ARI/90.5 manual and the Red books (University of Cape Town Paediatric handbooks) with the knowledge scores was also evaluated. RESULTS: 34 Doctors and 34 CNPs participated in the study. All the …
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A survey of antibiotic prescribing patterns and in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility patterns at the University Teaching Hosptal, Lusaka,Zambia ,1998
… percent, with the four specialities: Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 67 percent, 74 percent, 90 percent and 64 percent, respectively. Multiple antibiotic prescriptions was common (61 percent), adding to the cost of care. The most common antibiotic prescribed was …
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A survey of antibiotic prescribing patterns and in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility patterns at the University Teaching Hosptal, Lusaka,Zambia ,1998
… percent, with the four specialities: Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 67 percent, 74 percent, 90 percent and 64 percent, respectively. Multiple antibiotic prescriptions was common (61 percent), adding to the cost of care. The most common antibiotic prescribed was …
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Genomic characterization of the italian wolf (Canis lupus): the genes involved in black coat colour determination and application of microarray technique for snps detection.
… Prof. Gregory Barsh, Department of Genetics and Paediatrics, Stanford University. On the other hand, we performed analysis on a high number of SNPs thanks to a customized Canine microarray useful to integrate or substitute the STR markers for genotyping individuals and detecting wolf-dog hybrids. …
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Profile of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged between 1 and 59 months admitted to the paediatric wards at the UTH, Lusaka
… UTH, Lusaka was carried out in the Department of Paediatrics and Child health, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka from 1 st April 2002 to 31 st December 2002 (9 months). The objectives of the study were to determine the prevalence of acute bacterial meningitis, the social status of affected …
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Factors affecting the metabolism and toxicity of DEHP
… led to withdrawal of the plasticiser from use in paediatrics in a number of countries. DEHP has been observed to cause reproductive defects in animals. The objective of my research was to find out if undeveloped neonatal metabolism could contribute to the adverse effects in premature infants …
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Functional Imaging the Neonatal Brain with Wearable Diffuse Optical Tomography
… supervised by: Dr. Topun Austin, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, and Dr. Robert J. Cooper, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, UCL.
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
… Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and objectives of the study were to determine the prevalence, aetiology, risk …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
… Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and objectives of the study were to determine the prevalence, aetiology, risk …
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Determinants Of Drug Utilisation During Childhood
… the determinants of drug prescription in paediatrics. Pharmacoepidemiology and the use of administrative databases can be a useful tool for this scope. Data collected in regional and multiregional administrative prescription databases were analysed. Prevalence data by sex and age were …
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Multilayer network methodologies for brain data analysis and modelling
… For two groups of TBI patients (adults and paediatrics), time series data were collected from the observations of IntraCranial Pressure (ICP) and Heart Rate (HR). We first detected events of simultaneous increase of HR and ICP, which we called brain-heart crosstalks. Subsequently time series …
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Evaluation of Dose-Exposure-Response Relationships of Miltefosine and Discovery of Multicomponent Crystal Forms of Artesunate
… lower cure rate of the miltefosine treatment in paediatrics was predicted because a lower exposure of miltefosine was simulated in virtual paediatric in comparison with adult virtual populations when they received the same dose of the treatment. Experimental screening of ATS with the 117 …
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