The Human Rights Act 1998 and medical treatment: time for re-examination.

abstract：:One hundred consecutive cases of boys with foreskin problems referred to local paediatric surgeons in the Edinburgh area were studied. Fifty five underwent circumcision and the remainder were managed more conservatively with or without the use of local or general anaesthetic. Although sometimes avoiding general anaest...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lafferty PM,MacGregor FB,Scobie WG

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11 year old boy presented with severe acute hereditary coproporphyria. Despite supportive measures his condition deteriorated after admission. Haem arginate, started two days after presentation, produced appreciable inhibition of porphyrin precursor overproduction and clinical improvement. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Manning DJ,Gray TA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parent reported pulse rates could provide important information on a child's clinical condition. The agreement between the parent's measurement of their child's pulse and a pulse oximeter was assessed following a brief educational intervention. Parents can be taught to measure the pulse of school age children, but hav...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： White J,Shepperd S,Yudkin P,Harnden A,Mant D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:The British Committee for Standards in Haematology currently recommends concomitant splenectomy in children with mild hereditary spherocytosis (HS) undergoing cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones. However, splenectomy is associated with a risk of life-threatening infection, particularly in young ch...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alizai NK,Richards EM,Stringer MD

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild hypnotics are often recommended for young children with sleep problems. This study assesses the efficacy of trimeprazine tartrate in 1 to 3 year old children with persistent and severe night waking in a double blind crossover trial with placebo. Children on treatment with trimeprazine had significantly fewer waki...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simonoff EA,Stores G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain mortality from 1 to 18 years, and predictors of mortality. DESIGN:Long-term follow-up of population cohort born 1989-1992. SETTING:Births in South East Thames Region. PATIENTS:346 children with bilateral cerebral palsy (CP). INTERVENTIONS:Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Mortality; pred...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baird G,Allen E,Scrutton D,Knight A,McNee A,Will E,Elbourne D

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify the experiences of patients, parents or carers when a child/young person is prescribed a new long-term medicine. METHOD:Patients' prescribed a new long-term (>6 weeks) medicine were recruited from a single UK paediatric hospital out-patient pharmacy.A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aston J,Wilson K,Terry D

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The amount of adipose tissue influences pubertal development and fertility in girls. A candidate for mediating this is the hormone leptin, derived from adipocytes. This work was carried out to determine whether the leptin concentration in serum is regulated during pubertal development. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carlsson B,Ankarberg C,Rosberg S,Norjavaara E,Albertsson-Wikland K,Carlsson LM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the relationship between serum point-of-care (POC) ketones at triage and moderate-to-severe dehydration based on the validated Gorelick Scales. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS:Prospective unblinded study from April 2016 to February 2017 in a paediatric emergency department. Patients aged 1 month to...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Durnin S,Jones J,Ryan E,Howard R,Walsh S,Dawkins I,Blackburn C,O'Donnell SM,Barrett MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A children's hospital nutritional care team prospectively monitored the frequency of sepsis in central venous catheters used for administering parenteral nutrition. During an initial study period of 12 months, 26/58 (45%) of catheters were removed because of proved sepsis. The possible causes of this alarmingly high r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Puntis JW,Holden CE,Smallman S,Finkel Y,George RH,Booth IW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of microcephaly in infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in eight private hospitals in south-eastern and midwestern Brazil, from 2011 to 2015. DESIGN:Observational, cross-sectional study in a cohort of neonates. SETTING:Eight private NICUs situated in the c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Magalhães-Barbosa MC,Prata-Barbosa A,Robaina JR,Raymundo CE,Lima-Setta F,Antonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When isolated from the female genital tract, diphtheroids are usually regarded as commensal organisms. Corynebacterium kutscheri however is a pathogen in laboratory rodents. We report a case in which C. kutscheri was isolated as a pure culture from the umbilical cord and from other surface sites in an infant. Histolog...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fitter WF,de Sa DJ,Richardson H

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport characteristics of the placenta, which favour higher phenylalanine concentrations in the fetus than in the mother, and regression data of head circumference at birth against phenylalanine concentration at conception in maternal phenylketonuria (PKU), suggest that treatment of maternal PKU should ideally ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thompson GN,Francis DE,Kirby DM,Compton R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the mental health of children and adolescents admitted to neonatal intensive/special care units (NICUs) in infancy. METHODS:This cross-sectional study used a provincially representative cohort from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study. Parents provided data on psychiatric disorders using the MI...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiorean A,Savoy C,Beattie K,El Helou S,Silmi M,Van Lieshout RJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases causing high mortality in children under 5 years of age in resource limited settings (RLS) could be treated if children in these countries had access to existing medicines. It took 30 years before the WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) considered the issue of medicines for children, with the first EML for chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hoppu K,Sri Ranganathan S,Dodoo AN

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the risk of skin cancer in persons treated with neonatal phototherapy (NNPT) for jaundice. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Grampian Region, Scotland, UK. DATA SOURCE:Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank. NNPT exposure was abstracted from paper records spanning 1976-1990. Follow-up ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Brewster DH,Tucker JS,Fleming M,Morris C,Stockton DL,Lloyd DJ,Bhattacharya S,Chalmers JW

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-week-old girl with fever, hypernatraemia, dehydration, and polyuria failed to concentrate urine in response to exogenous vasopressin administration. There was no family history of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. When she was 15 months old, the infusion of vasopressin did not produce an increase in urinary cyclic-A...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Schreiner RL,Skafish PR,Anand SK,Northway JD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-two cases of protracted diarrhoea in infancy presenting over a 6-year period have been analysed, with particular reference to diagnosis and management. The patients fell into 1 of 2 categories according to whether a specific diagnosis was established or not. A diagnosis (category 1) was established in 59 (72%),...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Larcher VF,Shepherd R,Francis DE,Harries JT

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma testosterone was estimated by radioimmunoassay in 60 children with disorders of sexual development before and after stimulation with human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). In 21 children the testosterone levels after 3 and 5 daily injections of 1000 units HCG were compared and good correlation was found between t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant DB,Laurance BM,Atherden SM,Ryness J

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last half century there has been an exponential increase in international travel including to more exotic and long-haul destinations. The assessment of febrile returning child travellers presents diagnostic challenges and is often performed poorly. A detailed travel and medical history, clinical examination...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Halbert J,Shingadia D,Zuckerman JN

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG subclass specific immune response against pneumococcal type 3 polysaccharide antigen before and after immunisation in healthy children and children with recurrent bronchitis was studied. Recurrent bronchitis was defined as three or more episodes a year, during at least two consecutive years, of bronchopulmonar...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Baets F,Pauwels R,Schramme I,Leroy J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years photopheresis, an extracorporeal form of photochemotherapy using psoralen and ultraviolet A irradiation of leucocytes, has been claimed to be an effective form of immunomodulation. AIM:To evaluate its effect in type 1 diabetes we performed a double blind, controlled study using placebo table...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ludvigsson J,Samuelsson U,Ernerudh J,Johansson C,Stenhammar L,Berlin G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out on the way in which children's beds were used by the specialty of paediatrics in a district general hospital. Five differing ways were found of interpreting the present Department of Health guidelines on health services information (Körner recommendations). These gave bed occupancy figures v...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： MacFaul R,Long R

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Most babies receive at least some formula milk. Variations in formula-feeding practices can have both short- and long-term health consequences. The literature on parents' experiences of bottle-feeding was systematically reviewed to understand how formula-feeding decisions are made. METHODS:Relevant English-l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lakshman R,Ogilvie D,Ong KK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile cytopathic toxin was found in the faeces or gut content of five of 39 neonates with necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Toxin concentrations were uniformly low and did not differ from those found in healthy neonates. C difficile is unlikely to be involved in the pathogenesis of NEC. Stools from 33 b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomas DF,Fernie DS,Bayston R,Spitz L

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency is a common disorder of fatty acid oxidation in north west Europe. It is very variable in its clinical consequences and is believed to be considerably underdiagnosed. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the diagnosis and outcome of MCAD deficiency in the UK. METHO...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pollitt RJ,Leonard JV

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ciliary dyskinesia was shown in a 12 year old boy with bronchiectasis who had developed hydrocephalus in the neonatal period. The possible relevance of his ciliary abnormality is discussed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Greenstone MA,Jones RW,Dewar A,Neville BG,Cole PJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Ketamine is used for post-operative analgesia. There has been recent disruption in it's supply. It is usually prescribed by patient's weight (3 mg/kg in 50 ml 0.9% saline) at a rate of 1-5 ml/hr (1-5 microgram/kg/minute). To conserve ketamine supplies our policy was changed to a concentrated "standardised" concentr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wong J,Sutherland A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the growth abnormalities in sickle cell disease has been limited by the lack of longitudinal observations in individuals, and by an inability to quantitate the observed patterns. To investigate the timing and pattern of the adolescent growth spurt, longitudinal observations of height from the Jamaican coho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Singhal A,Thomas P,Cook R,Wierenga K,Serjeant G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether antimony may be detected in the urine during infancy and early childhood and its association with passive exposure to tobacco smoke, as assessed by urinary cotinine. DESIGN:Analysis of spare aliquots of urine collected from infants participating in studies of respiratory function and pas...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dezateux C,Delves HT,Stocks J,Wade A,Pilgrim L,Costeloe K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00