abstract：:The development of educational packages on health-related topics has become common in school curricula. This paper describes an integrated health and education input in the development of an educational package about asthma for Year 8 high school students. Ownership and educational relevance of the package (ensuring i...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Henry RL,Gibson PG,Vimpani GV,Hazell J,Leggatt R,Mowbray C,Thompson S,Pine J,Valentine M,Joyce J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) excretion was measured in term and preterm neonates on days 1, 4, 7, 14 and 28 of life. Urinary NAG showed a peak level on day 4 or 7 in these infants. In addition, it tended to be higher with the degree of prematurity. In sick preterms who were depressed at birth and had ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Tsukahara H,Hori C,Tsuchida S,Hiraoka M,Sudo M,Haruki S,Suehiro F

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a commonly used anaesthetic agent, halothane, on neonatal cilial function was determined. A nasal cilial sample was taken from 13 healthy, term, newborn infants. For 1 h, half of each sample was exposed to halothane and half to air. Cilial function was assessed by measuring beat frequency with a modified...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： O'Callaghan C,Atherton M,Karim K,Gyi A,Langton JA,Zamudio I,Barry P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absolute contraindications to pertussis immunization should be limited to anaphylaxis or unexplained encephalopathy following a previous dose. Other contraindications including marked febrile reactions (> 40.5 degrees C), hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes, prolonged screaming (> 3 h) and severe local reactions (more t...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors：

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary investigation was made into the effectiveness of two breastmilk fortifiers on the Australian market (FM-85 [Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland] and Enfamil Human Milk Fortifier [EHMF; Mead Johnson, Evansville, IN, USA]). Infants < 1800 g and < 34 weeks gestation at birth, who were receiving breast milk, were ran...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Metcalf R,Dilena B,Gibson R,Marshall P,Simmer K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the context of total infant mortality for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal infants. Deaths for infants born in Western Australia from 1980 to 1988 inclusive were ascertained from a total population data base. Infant mortality rates and rates ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Alessandri LM,Read AW,Stanley FJ,Burton PR,Dawes VP

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between women's retrospective reports of smoking during pregnancy and subsequent language, cognitive, behavioural and physical development in their children up to age 9 years. While there was a strong association between maternal smoking and an index of disadvantageous child rearing...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： McGee R,Stanton WR

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now 50 years since Leo Kanner first described autism as a distinctive pattern of symptoms in some children with severe developmental problems. Since then the assessment and diagnosis of children with pervasive disorders of development has been refined and much is known about the phenomenology and epidemiology. A...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Tonge BJ,Dissanayake C,Brereton AV

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed the directors of all 92 long day care centres in western Sydney to document the occurrence of communicable disease outbreaks during 1992 and to identify risk factors for the occurrence of these outbreaks. A total of 6092 children were enrolled at the centres, of whom 530 (8.7%) were less than 3 years old. ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Jorm LR,Capon AG

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between April 1989 and October 1991, 13 severely ill infants, median age 13 days (range 1-180 days), median weight 3.5 kg (range 2.5-4.8 kg), received continuous venovenous haemofiltration (CVVH) for a median duration of 39 h (range 5-234 h). Filtration was performed through a double lumen catheter inserted into a cen...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Reeves JH,Butt WB,Sathe AS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the first year of life, injury is the leading cause of mortality in children and adolescents in Australia and a major cause of morbidity and hospitalization. Studies from Europe and North American and more recently New Zealand have demonstrated that injury rates differ between different socio-economic groups, wi...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Jolly DL,Moller JN,Volkmer RE

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient with neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) in whom there was multisystem involvement including neonatal hepatitis. The hepatitis, defined pathologically as a giant cell hepatitis, presented with severe cholestasis, was unrelated to other known causes of neonatal hepatitis and resolved spon...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Evans N,Gaskin K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems experienced by 10-11 year old and 14-15 year old children living in single-parent and two-parent families in South Australia. The 10-11 year old male children living in single-parent families were found to have significantly more emotional and be...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Clark JJ,Sawyer MG,Nguyen AM,Baghurst PA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oesophageal duplication cysts in infants (usually males) should be recognized as a cause of respiratory distress which worsens during the neonatal period, and which is associated with feeding difficulties. Their radiological appearance is that of a right-sided posterior mediastinal mass, which is shown to be cystic on...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Stewart RJ,Bruce J,Beasley SW

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seven Australian paediatricians were sent a questionnaire to determine whether they undertook developmental screening and/or assessment. Replies were received from 140 (68%) paediatricians of whom 115 (82%) stated they did developmental screening and 58 (41%) said they did developmental assessment. The...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Rossiter EJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study documents the neurodevelopmental outcome at 3 years of 52 of 55 extremely low birthweight (ELBW) survivors (survival rate 49%) born in a tertiary maternity centre from July 1985 through December 1988, and examines more closely the developmental profile of the neurologically normal survivors. At 3 years, 6 (...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Bowen JR,Starte DR,Arnold JD,Simmons JL,Ma PJ,Leslie GI

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) is a common cause of upper and lower respiratory tract infection in infants. An association between RSV bronchiolitis and cardiac arrhythmias has been described but is rare. A further case of an infant with supraventricular tachycardia in association with culture-positive respiratory ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Armstrong DS,Menahem S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children with multiple relapsing steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome were treated with continuous cyclosporin for periods ranging from 18 to 48 months. Renal biopsy showed mild mesangial proliferation in three of the children and minimal change in two. All children previously had been treated with cyclophosphami...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Webb KL,Sargent P,Burke JR

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 9070 female infants born at the Foothills Provincial Hospital was conducted to determine the incidence of labial fusion at birth. A prospective study was also conducted on 1970 female patients assessed through a paediatric outpatient clinic to determine the incidence of labial fusion in this p...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Leung AK,Robson WL,Tay-Uyboco J

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of bioelectrical impedance (BI) in estimating the pharmacokinetics and, therefore, individualized doses, of aminophylline in preterm infants (gestational age 26-35 weeks) was assessed in a two-phase study. Multiple regression analysis in the first group of neonates (phase I, n = 19) identified resistance, rea...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Sidhu J,Triggs E,Charles B,Tudehope D,Gray P,Cowley D

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The birthweight and gestational age specific mortality of singleton Aboriginal and White infants born in Western Australia during the period 1980-86 is described. The analyses are based on the approximately 8000 Aboriginal and 143,000 White births notified through the Western Australia Midwives' system, which were lin...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Kliewer EV,Stanley FJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The challenges and stresses faced by adolescents include entry into secondary school, the development of adolescent sexuality, family conflicts, parental mental illness, socio-cultural factors, substance use and abuse, work and career abuse, social and antisocial behaviour, and the carry-over of problems from childhoo...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Raphael B

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of Ketotifen was examined in the treatment of 113 infants between 6 and 36 months of age presenting with a history of cough and/or wheeze in a multicentre randomized placebo-controlled double-blind study. A 4 week no-medication baseline phase preceded the 16 week treatment phase in which infants took 2.5 ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： van Asperen PP,McKay KO,Mellis CM,Loh RK,Harth SC,Thong YH,Harris M,Robertson IF,Gibbeson M,Rhodes L

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following principles are now clearly defined in the management of children with developmental delay: (1) Multidisciplinary teams are more effective than individual therapeutic approaches. (2) The whole development of the child needs to be considered rather than a single deficient area alone. (3) Home-based program...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Parry TS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information regarding the likelihood of finding suitable marrow donors is limited. In order to determine this potential, all patients who received their primary care at a single paediatric institution over a 9 year period and in whom tissue typing studies were initiated are reviewed. Forty-five (31.3%) of 144 patients...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Vowels MR,Honeyman M,Ziegler JB,White L,Doran T,Lam-Po-Tang R

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Aboriginal women do not recall their last menstrual period date, so alternative methods of estimating gestational age are necessary for optimal obstetric and neonatal care. In this retrospective review of 605 Aboriginal infants born at the Royal Darwin Hospital, the gestational age was estimated by the Dubowitz m...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Sayers SM,Powers JR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether infants absorb aluminium from antacid therapy. The study was conducted at Torrens House, a service provided by Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAFHS) for feeding and settling problems. Over an 11 week period, all patients receiving antacid therapy were studied. Pati...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Woodard-Knight L,Fudge A,Teubner J,Simmer K

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of consecutively surviving very low birthweight (VLBW) infants comprising 41 infants (24 female) birthweight less than 1000 g and 108 infants (63 female) birthweight 1000-1500 g received detailed audiological evaluation. The audiological test battery comprised auditory brainstem evoked response (ABR) prio...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Tudehope D,Smyth V,Scott J,Rogers Y

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether the severity of symptoms associated with rotavirus infection was related to the serotype of the infecting virus. Severity of clinical symptoms in 108 children admitted to hospital for treatment of rotavirus diarrhoea was retrospectively assessed using a scoring system for...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Barnes GL,Unicomb L,Bishop RF

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that hyperthermia can occur in cool climates because of overwrapping and that this practice precedes many deaths labelled as SIDS. We have attempted to test the hypothesis that the interaction of a cold face and a hot body might lead to further hyperthermia in a piglet model. Twelve non-se...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Galland BC,Peebles CM,Bolton DP,Taylor BJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight full-term infants (mean gestation 39.9 weeks [range 37-42] and mean birthweight 3642 g [range 3060-4200]) with severe respiratory failure (median oxygenation index 28 [range 16-65] and median arterial/alveolar PO2 ratio (a/APO2) 0.094 [range 0.038-0.165]) and pulmonary barotrauma were treated with Dexamethasone,...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Barr P

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationship between parents' and physicians' reports of treatment-related behaviour and adjustment problems of children with cystic fibrosis (CF), and children's clinical status as assessed by measures of pulmonary functioning and global ratings of clinical status. Parents completed a Cystic F...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Sanders MR,Gravestock FM,Wanstall K,Dunne M

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In June 1990 a meeting of Paediatric Respiratory Physicians was held near Adelaide. The guidelines for assessing and treating asthma as prepared by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand for the management of patients with asthma was considered. Although not explicitly stated, these guidelines were designed...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Henry R,Sly P,Godfrey S,Van Asperen P,Staugas R,Le Souef P,Smith G,Robertson I,Robertson C,Phelan P

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled steroid therapy is one of the mainstays of treatment of asthma in children. Side effects, including suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, have been noted with high doses of inhaled steroids. Most studies concerning side effects have been done with mechanical nebulization devices or hand...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Chang CC,Tam AY

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16 year old girl with an established diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis presented with a 1 year history of swelling of the left cheek. A 2 cm diameter tumour was excised which showed histological features of a solid variant of a minor salivary gland basal cell adenoma. One year later during laparotomy and excision of m...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Byard RW,Phillips GE,Dardick I,Robertson E,Carter RF,Bourne AJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a boy with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) treated with chemotherapy and prophylactic cranial irradiation to a dose of 24 Gy. Six years after diagnosis he developed a glioma and died. Prior to 1979, four cases of second malignant neoplasm (SMN) of the brain had been reported in children treated for ALL. ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Vowels MR,Tobias V,Mameghan H

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted on 447 healthy high school students of southern Chinese descent to determine the prevalence of anaemia and thalassaemia. Haematological data and serum ferritin levels were determined on all venous blood samples. Haemoglobin (Hb) electrophoretic study was conducted on 43 students who had anaemia (...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Li AM,Cheng MY

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of 38 children with endstage renal failure who entered a dialysis and renal transplant programme over a period of 16 years is reported. The initial care was given in an adult programme but in 1985 this was changed to a comprehensive and specifically paediatric programme. Patient survival was 97, 86 and 80%...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Lewis DJ,McIver M,Scott DF,Thomson NM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A baby with ambiguous genitalia and 46XY chromosomes was raised as a female. Sudden and unexpected death at 11 months of age led to a post-mortem diagnosis of Drash syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Hutson JM,Werther G

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is responsible for much morbidity and mortality, which might be decreased by increasing parental and patient knowledge about asthma. This report describes the development and validation of an asthma knowledge questionnaire for use in the assessment of asthma knowledge. Two groups of respondents were examined. O...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Fitzclarence CA,Henry RL

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00