Children's access to treatment for epilepsy: experience from the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

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：:Determinations of body height and calculations of growth velocity are still the major parameters for the assessment of normal and aberrant growth. The present study was performed to investigate the minimum time interval between consecutive measurements that is necessary for a statement on significant length increment ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hermanussen M,Burmeister J

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown a correlation between increased accident rates and levels of deprivation in the community. School accident reporting is one area where an association might be expected. AIMS:To investigate differences in primary school accident rates in deprived and more affluent wards, in an area managed...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Latif AH,Williams WR,Sibert J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised double blind, two period cross over study was designed to compare the ability of 51 hospitalised asthmatics with acute exacerbations to use each of two inhalers. The inhalers compared were a new breath actuated metered dose inhaler, the Autohaler inhalation device, and a dry powder device, the Rotahaler. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ruggins NR,Milner AD,Swarbrick A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen children suffering from hay fever were treated with intra-nasal beclomethasone dipropionate (400 mug/day) and an identical placebo aerosol in a double-blind cross-over trial. 17 of the children preferred the intranasal beclomethasone dipropionate, one had no preference, none preferred the placebo. The effect ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prahl P,Wilken-Jensen K,Mygind N

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalitis is an uncommon but potentially devastating neurological syndrome with different aetiologies including direct central nervous system infection with different agents (most commonly viral) and those mediated by the immune system. Whilst there have been several recent publications and guidelines on the manage...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thompson C,Kneen R,Riordan A,Kelly D,Pollard AJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 121 infants entered a cohort serological study of primary infections with herpes-viruses. All of them had seven samples of blood available: the first sample was taken soon after birth, the other six were taken at 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, and 14 months of age. One sample of maternal blood was collected immediately af...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Huang LM,Lee CY,Chang MH,Wang JD,Hsu CY

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three clinically normal sibs were discovered to have type II hyperprolinaemia in a routine serum amino acid screening programme in Sicily. In addition to the basic biochemical features of type II hyperprolinaemia, all 3 children had marked hyperglycinaemia, whereas their parents had both normal blood proline and glyci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pavone L,Mollica F,Levy HL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evidence base to guide the pharmacological management of tone and abnormal movements in cerebral palsy (CP) is limited, as is an understanding of routine clinical practice in the UK. We aimed to establish details of motor phenotype and current pharmacological management of a representative cohort across ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lumsden DE,Crowe B,Basu A,Amin S,Devlin A,DeAlwis Y,Kumar R,Lodh R,Lundy CT,Mordekar SR,Smith M,Cadwgan J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the sensitivity of differential avian and human delayed-type hypersensitivity skin testing in the diagnosis of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lymphadenitis. METHOD:Retrospective review of all patients with culture proved non-tuberculous mycobacterial lymph node infections who also had differentia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Daley AJ,Isaacs D

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) has recently been registered for treatment of pain in neonates but the pharmacodynamics, including effects on body temperature, have not been reported. METHODS:A pooled analysis on body temperature recordings in neonates exposed to intravenous paracetamol was perfor...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hopchet L,Kulo A,Rayyan M,Verbesselt R,Vanhole C,de Hoon JN,Allegaert K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that because of vascular interchange between the monozygous twins vascular disruptions from a deceased cotwin with disseminated intravascular coagulation causes embolisation in the surviving twin. This study reports six cases in which all the surviving monozygous twins had central nervous system ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Szymonowicz W,Preston H,Yu VY

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was identified in 37 of 73 consecutive neonates with purulent conjunctivitis, including four delivered by caesarean section with intact membranes. Most (28/37) presented in the first week. Infection was significantly associated with referral from the community. Genital C. trachomatis infection wa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barry WC,Teare EL,Uttley AH,Wilson SA,McManus TJ,Lim KS,Gamsu H,Price JF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been suggested that increasing obesity levels in young women lead to intrauterine environments that, in turn, stimulate increased obesity among their offspring, generating an intergenerational acceleration of obesity levels. If this mechanism is important, the association of maternal body mass index (...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davey Smith G,Steer C,Leary S,Ness A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 158 children with acute haematogenous osteomyelitis, and of 94 children with acute septic arthritis over an 8-year period was made to determine which bacteria cause these infections. In the osteomyelitis group the organism most frequently detected was Staphylococcus aureus (74% of cases). In 16% of cases s...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nade S

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 4-year period the neonatal survival rate for 26 infants weighing 501-750 g was 42% and for 81 infants weighing 751-1000 g it was 61%. All 59 surviving infants have been assessed at follow-up; 39 were at least 2 years old (corrected for prematurity) and data from the remaining 20 were derived from assessment at 1 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Orgill AA,Astbury J,Bajuk B,Yu VY

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of breast milk collected from mothers of infants with breast milk jaundice were analysed for 5 beta-pregnane-3 alpha, 20 beta-diol, and other pregnanediols using gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. None was detected in any of the specimens and therefore it is unlikely to be the inhibitory fac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murphy JF,Hughes I,Verrier Jones ER,Gaskell S,Pike AW

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how many children are admitted to paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with life-limiting conditions (LLCs) and their outcomes. DESIGN:National cohort, data-linkage study. SETTING:PICUs in England. PATIENTS:Children admitted to a UK PICU (1 January 2004 and 31 March 2015) were identified in t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fraser LK,Parslow R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 40 hospitalized infants and children with cytomegalovirus infection, 14 (35%) had interstitial pneumonitis, 4 (10%) had wheezing or tachypnoea but without x-ray evidence of classical interstitial pneumonia, the remaining 22 (55%) were free of pulmonary involvement. Most patients had tachypnoea and nonproductive ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith SD,Cho CT,Brahmacupta N,Lenahan MF

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) raises issues of considerable importance to medical practitioners and paediatricians in particular. The case concerns the parental right to withhold consent to medical intervention that doctors believe to be necessary in a child's best interests. The dram...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Samanta J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vestermark V,Vestermark S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, radiological, and genetic features are described in 3 patients with hypochondroplasia. Early recognition of this disorder is possible from the abnormal body proportions with short limbs and lumbar lordosis without facial stigmata of achondroplasia. Radiological confirmation is possible provided a full skelet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Glasgow JF,Nevin NC,Thomas PS

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalies of the bronchial cilia were studied in 5 children with recurrent pulmonary infections. Case 1 had Kartagener's syndrome and an absence of the inner and outer dynein arms in most cilia, although a few shortened and even some normal arms could be seen. Cases 2 and 3 had unilateral bronchiectasis without family...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Corbeel L,Cornillie F,Lauweryns J,Boel M,van den Berghe G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：SITUATION:Patient I is a 15 year old female with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency prescribed L-arginine 1.5 g three times daily and sodium benzoate 4.2 g three times daily. By taking her medication and controlling her diet she is able to lead a normal life and does well at school. However she struggles with the pa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gaskell C

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine evolution of the physical characteristics of Marfan's syndrome throughout childhood. METHODS:40 children were ascertained during the development of a regional register for Marfan's syndrome. Evolution of the clinical characteristics was determined by repeat evaluation of 10 patients with sporadic Marfan...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lipscomb KJ,Clayton-Smith J,Harris R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed whether maternal mental health problems increased rates for child injury during the preschool years and mid-childhood, and the extent to which associations could be accounted for by a range of potential explanatory factors. DESIGN:We analysed the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally represent...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hope S,Deighton J,Micali N,Law C

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of trips to the tropics taken by children with chronic health disorders (CHDs) is increasing. METHODS:All of the children with CHDs who attended two international vaccination centres in France before travelling to the tropics were included in a prospective, exposed/unexposed study. Each child was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ducrocq C,Sommet J,Levy D,Trieu TV,Quercia F,Morin L,Belletre X,Koehl B,Sorge F,Alberti C,de Pontual L,Faye A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing height, sitting height, armspan, subischial leg length, head circumference, and growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) axis were determined in 86 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. The aim of this study was to determine standing height and body proportions and their variability among osteogen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lund AM,Müller J,Skovby F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of wheezing, 'asthma', treatment for 'asthma', and school absence as a result of wheezing in Nottingham was calculated from a questionnaire survey of parents of 4750 children in a random sample of primary schools. A response was achieved for 3805 (80%) children of whom 438 (11.5%) had had episodes of wh...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hill RA,Standen PJ,Tattersfield AE

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty two babies who developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia were compared with 22 babies matched for gestational age who did not. Those with bronchopulmonary dysplasia weighed less at birth and had lower energy intakes from day 7 to day 56. Undernutrition before and after birth is a major problem in babies who develop ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilson DC,McClure G,Halliday HL,Reid MM,Dodge JA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00