Anesthesia for Infants and Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-597
Author(s):  
HERBERT RACKOW
Keyword(s):  
Basic Science ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Pediatric Anesthesia ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
New Information ◽  
Patient Preparation ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Made In

This text is a welcome addition to the small number of books devoted exclusively to pediatric anesthesia. There have been many advances made in this field since Pediatric Anesthesia by Leigh and Belton (1948) and Stephen's monograph, Elements of Pediatric Anesthesia (1956), were published. Smith has collected much of this new information from widely distributed articles, organized it, and added from his own experience of many years at the Children's Medical Center, in Boston. The book covers many aspects of pediatric anesthesia: basic science, patient preparation, general and special techniques, complications, mortality, etc.

Pediatric Anesthesia

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-539
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Surgery ◽  
Reference Data ◽  
Pediatric Anesthesia ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Young Subjects ◽  
Made In

For those who are interested in the advancement of pediatric surgery, it has long been obvious that improvements should be made in anesthesia for infants and children. Much credit should go to Drs. Leigh and Beltom for their important efforts in this direction. The present volume is based on an extensive experience with anesthesia technics in young subjects and hence bears a mark of authority. The book is a good source of reference data for those who are called upon to work in this field.

REFLEX-ARC LATENCY MEASUREMENTS IN NEWBORN INFANTS AND CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Marvin A. Eisengart
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Motor Nerve ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Motor Nerve Conduction Velocity ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Motor Nerve Conduction ◽  
Reflex Latency ◽  
Reflex Arc ◽  
Youth Clinic ◽  
Made In

Measurements of biceps reflex latency were made in newborn infants, older infants, and children at the National Naval Medical Center and in infants and children at a child and youth clinic in the District of Columbia. Relating reflex latency to a standard skeletal measure, an average "reflex velocity" was calculated which reliably reflects the maturational changes reported for motor nerve conduction velocity. In newborn infants reflex velocity was found to be more closely related to gestational age than to birth weight. There were no differences found in the absolute values or rates of maturation of reflex velocity among the children in the two clinic populations.

scholarly journals Rediscovery of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) in Máncora, northern Perú

Check List ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1563
Author(s):  
Javier Quiñones ◽  
Karla García Burneo ◽  
Claudio Barragan
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Snake ◽  
Warm Event ◽  
New Information ◽  
Southeast Pacific ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Sst Anomalies ◽  
Made In

The presence of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus) in the Southeast Pacific is rarely reported, with only one confirmed observation from northern Perú made in the early 1950s. We present new information based on a live-stranded specimen recently found in Peruvian waters, having washed ashore at Máncora (04.1255° S, 81.0958° W) in northern Perú on 12 July 2012. This stranding was associated with a Modoki El Niño warm event, since positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies up to 2.5°C were registered at this time.

scholarly journals The Books of Sigismund II Augustus in Vilnius University Library: Decorations of Book Covers and New Data about Provenances

Knygotyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 35-95
Author(s):  
Sondra Rankelienė
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
University Library ◽  
The World ◽  
Manufacturing Location ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
Made In ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In this article, the latest data about the personal book collection items of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund II Augustus in Vilnius University (VU) Library are presented. The authors that have been doing research on these books have not ascertained all of the embossed images that were used for cover decoration and have not identified the locations of where these books were bound and have not disclosed all of the provenances. In order to amend the lack of knowledge about the books of Sigismund II Augustus in VU library, the book covers of the King’s personal library were reviewed de visu and decorative ornaments were described. The ownership signs of the books were registered once again. While describing and comparing these books with the copies in various libraries of the world, the number of physical books (14) and publications in composite volumes (21) kept in VU library was assessed. The name of one book and a publisher’s imprint of two books were specified, eight provenances that were not mentioned by previous authors were registered. While describing book covers, the embossed images were given provisory names. Connections between the supralibros, dates of binding, decorative wheels, single embossed images, and other decorative elements were detected and lead to a reasonable conclusion that eight out of fourteen books from the Sigismund II Augustus collection were bound in Kraków, five were bound by bookbinders in Vilnius, while one was rebound in the 18th century. The identification of tools used by craftsmen that worked in Kraków and Vilnius will allow to ascertain the manufacturing location of similar book covers made in the middle of the 16th century.

scholarly journals An Empirical Investigation of the Option Value of College Enrollment

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M Stange
Keyword(s):  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
College Attendance ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Option Value ◽  
School Graduate ◽  
Schooling Decisions ◽  
New Information ◽  
Average High School ◽  
Made In

This paper quantifies the option value arising from sequential schooling decisions made in the presence of uncertainty and learning about academic ability. College attendance has option value since enrolled students have the option, but not obligation, to continue in school after learning their aptitude and tastes. I estimate that option value accounts for 14 percent of the total value of the opportunity to attend college for the average high school graduate and is greatest for moderate-aptitude students. Students' ability to make decisions sequentially in response to new information increases welfare and also makes educational outcomes less polarized by background. (JEL D83, I23)

HOW TO FEED THE INFANT WHEN BREAST MILK WAS NOT AVAILABLE, ACCORDING TO SIR ARTHUR CLARKE, M.D., WRITING IN 1828

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-589
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Breast Milk ◽  
Soft Water ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Boiling Water ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Made In

One of the best known books written for mothers in the early part of the nineteenth century was Sir Arthur Clark's: The Young Mother's Assistant; or a Practical Guide for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diseases of Infants and Children. If breast milk should not be available, Sir Arthur recommended the following: Should an infant, from accidental or other circumstances, be deprived of its food from the breast of its mother or nurse, an artificial substitute for it must be supplied; and it is evident that in this case the closer we can imitate nature the better. For this purpose a suckling bottle should be procured, the mouth of which should be as wide as that of an eight-ounce viol, [sic] which is to be stopped with sponge, covered with gauze, and made in size and shape to resemble a nipple. The following preparation is most suitable for an infant, as it comes nearest in quality to the mother's milk, and may be sucked through the sponge. On a small quantity of a crum [sic] of bread pour some boiling water; after soaking for about ten minutes, press it, and throw the water away, (this process purifies the bread from alum or any other saline substance which it may have contained); then boil it in as much soft water as will dissolve the bread and make a decoction of the consistence of barley water: to a sufficient quantity of this decoction, about a fifth part of fresh cow's milk is to be added, and sweetened with the best soft sugar.

Humeral Fractures Without Obvious Etiologies in Children Less Than 3 Years of Age: When Is It Abuse?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-671
Author(s):  
Richard T. Strait ◽  
Robert M. Siegel ◽  
Robert A. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Humeral Fracture ◽  
Humeral Fractures ◽  
Supracondylar Fractures ◽  
Fractures In Children ◽  
Arm Injuries ◽  
Made In

Objective. To determine the occurrence and frequency of abuse in children with humeral fractures without immediately obvious etiologies who are less than 3 years old and present with arm injuries. Methods. A retrospective chart review was conducted of all children less than 3 years old treated for a humeral fracture at Children's Hospital Medical Center between July 1, 1990, and September 10, 1993. One hundred twenty-four charts of children with humeral fractures were reviewed for possible abuse using previously developed criteria. Charts were evaluated independently by the investigators. Consensus was reached on classification of each chart into the following categories: abuse, indeterminate, or not abuse. Results. Abuse was diagnosed in 9 of 25 (36%) children less than 15 months of age, but in only 1 of 99 (1%) children older than 15 months (P < .05). Abuse was excluded in 91 of 124 (73%) children. No determination of abuse (indeterminate) could be made in 23 of 124 (18.5%) children. In children less than 15 months of age, abuse was diagnosed in 2 of 10 (20%) with supracondylar fractures and in 7 of 12 (58%) with spiral/oblique fractures. Conclusion. The prevalence of abuse in our children presenting with humeral fractures was much lower than in other published reports, especially in the children over the age of 15 months. However, we found a higher prevalence of supracondylar fractures associated with abuse than those same reports. Given these findings, abuse should be considered in all children less than 15 months of age with humeral fractures, including those with supracondylar fractures. The majority of humeral fractures in children are accidental, especially beyond the age of 15 months.

FREQUENCY OF CARDIAC ARREST ASSOCIATED WITH ANESTHESIA IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 697-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Rackow ◽  
Ernest Salanitre ◽  
Lynne T. Green
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Total Incidence ◽  
In Infants And Children

At the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, infants less than 1 year of age have a frequency of cardiac arrest during anesthesia, of 1:700, thought to be due to anesthesia, and a frequency of 1:600 attributed to anesthesia plus unknown causes. Children 1 to 12 years of age have a frequency of cardiac arrest during anesthesia of 1:2,300, thought to be due to anesthesia, and a frequency of 1:1,700 attributed to anesthesia plus unknown causes. The mortality and frequency of cardiac arrest during anesthesia in children (as defined by the number of deaths, and cardiac arrests due to anesthesia, in proportion to the incidence of anesthesia) cannot be determined in most previous reports because the total incidence of anesthesia for children was not presented. At the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the frequency of cardiac arrest during anesthesia in infants less than 1 year of age was found to be significantly higher than that in children 1 to 12 years of age or in adults 13 years of age or older. The rate for all children, infants plus children 1 to 12 years, is also significantly higher than the rate for adults. However, the rate of cardiac arrest during anesthesia in children 1 to 12 years of age was not significantly different from the rate in adults.

Congenital Dysplasia of the Hip Joint and Sequelae

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-468
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Hip Joint ◽  
Hip Dysplasia ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Orthopedic Surgeon ◽  
Early Signs ◽  
Dysplasia Of The Hip ◽  
Plaster Casts ◽  
Made In

This is a book of particular value and interest to pediatricians, although written by an orthopedic surgeon. It explains concisely and graphically the early signs of hip dysplasia, as well as the need for early diagnosis and treatment. The use of the Frejka abduction pillow splint is advised when diagnosis can be made in the preweight bearing period; this method of therapy is almost always successful and easy to apply, in contrast to the discomfort of plaster casts and less favorable results obtained in older infants and children.

Mongolian Spots, Day Care Centers, and Child Abuse

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 672-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claibourne I. Dungy
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Benign Nature ◽  
The University

Physicians caring for infants and children are familiar with mongolian spots. Most physicians inform the child's family of the benign nature of this condition. However, more and more infants are being cared for by care providers other than their parents. Many infants are cared for in day care centers. It is important that these caretakers also be informed and aware of mongolian spots. Two recent cases seen at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center underscore this need.

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