scholarly journals The Newborn Baby Check

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harishan Tharmarajah
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Newborn Baby ◽  
Major Morbidity ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The Family

The newborn baby check is often the first encounter a General Practitioner (GP) has with an infant and their family. It is an excellent opportunity to review the journey the family has taken antenatally, at the time of delivery and the weeks that have followed. It is also a time to detect and identify conditions that can be managed in their early stages. If untreated, some conditions can result in major morbidity. In this chapter we will look at what makes up a newborn baby check and important considerations to think about when undertaking this assessment. The examination is also performed in a systematic way to maximise the chance of detecting any abnormalities.

scholarly journals Pertussis in a child of the first month of life from family contact

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
O. V. Iozefovich ◽  
S. M. Kharit ◽  
E. I. Bobova ◽  
E. A. Budnikova
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Pertussis Infection ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Family Contact

A case of whooping cough in a moderate form in a child of the first month of life is described in the presented clinical observation. The moderate form was manifested by the duration of the preconvulsive period up to 5 days, the appearance of cyanosis of the face when coughing in the early stages of the disease (1 week), an increase in the number of coughing attacks. The difficulties of treating pertussis in young children are demonstrated by our observation of the course of the disease. There is no vaccination against pertussis in children in the family due to the refusal of parents and children with prolonged coughing were not examined at the outpatient stage. As a result, chemoprophylaxis was not performed on time and the newborn was discharged from the hospital to the center of pertussis infection. The solution to the problem of reducing the incidence in children in the first months of life should be vaccination of pregnant women in the last stages, and vaccination of the environment, including agerelated revaccinations. 

scholarly journals Family Limitation

1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (11P1) ◽  
pp. 1149-1153
Author(s):  
Robert Smith
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Specialist Service ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Dr Robert Smith surveys the history of birth control and sounds a warning for the future of mankind, if the population explosion is allowed to continue unchecked. He stresses the importance of the role of the general practitioner in the limitation of births. Sir Theodore Fox describes the work of the Family Planning Association and stresses that, increasingly, this is a specialist service covering all aspects of fertility. He also feels that the general practitioner has a role in family planning.

Larval morphology of Dart-Poison Frogs (Anura: Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae and Dendrobatidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3637 (5) ◽  
pp. 569 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID A. SÁNCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Digestive System ◽  
Larval Morphology ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Taxonomic Assignment ◽  
Digestive Tube ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Constant Diameter ◽  
The Family ◽  
Upper Jaw ◽  
Late Stages

Tadpoles in the superfamily Dendrobatoidea (families Aromobatidae and Dendrobatidae), housed in zoological collections or illustrated in publications, were studied. For the most part, tadpoles of species within the family Aromobatidae, the subfamilies Colostethinae and Hyloxalinae (of the family Dendrobatidae), and those of the genus Phyllobates, Dendrobatinae (Dendrobatidae) have slender anterior jaw sheaths with a medial notch and slender lateral processes, triangular fleshy projections on the inner margin of the nostrils and digestive tube with constant diameter and color and its axis sinistrally directed, concealing the liver and other organs. These morphologies are different from the ones observed in tadpoles of species included in the Dendrobatinae (minus Phyllobates). Exceptions to these morphological arrangements are noted, being the digestive system arrangement and the nostril ornamentation more plastic than the shape of the upper jaw sheath. Tadpoles of all species of the Dendrobatoidea have similar disposition of digestive organs in early stages, but differentiate in late stages of development. Classifying the upper jaw sheath into the two recognized states is possible from very early stages of development, but gut disposition and nostril ornamentation cannot be determined until late in development, making classification and taxonomic assignment of tadpoles based on these morphological features challenging.

scholarly journals Phyllotactic pattern formation in early stages of cactus ontogeny

2011 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edyta M. Gola
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Formation ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Phyllotactic Pattern ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family

Representatives of the family <em>Cactaceae</em> are characterized by a wide range of phyllotaxis. To assess the origin of this diversity, early stages of phyllotactic pattern formation were examined in seedlings. The analysis of the sequence of areole initiation revealed intertribal differences. In seedlings from the <em>Trichocereeae</em> (<em>Gymnocalycium</em>, <em>Rebutia</em>) and <em>Notocacteae</em> (<em>Parodia</em>) tribes, two opposite cotyledonal areoles developed as the first elements of a pattern. Usually, next pair of areoles was initiated perpendicularly to cotyledonal areoles, starting the decussate pattern. This pattern was subsequently transformed into bijugate or into simple spiral phyllotaxis. In seedlings from the <em>Cacteae</em> tribe (<em>Mammillaria</em> and <em>Thelocactus</em>), cotyledonal areoles were never observed and the first areoles always appeared in the space between cotyledons. It was either areole pair (mainly in <em>Mammillaria</em>), starting a decussate pattern, or a single areole (mainly in <em>Thelocactus</em>) quickly followed by areoles spirally arranged, usually in accordance with the main Fibonacci phyllotaxis. Differences in the initial stages of pattern formation do not fully explain the phyllotaxis diversity in mature cacti. Only two, the most common phyllotactic patterns occurred in the early development of studied seedlings, i.e. the main Fibonacci and the decussate pattern. Discrepancy in the range of phyllotactic spectra in seedlings and in mature plants suggests that phyllotaxis diversity emerges during further plant growth. Initial phyllotactic transformations, occurring already in the very early stages, indicate great plasticity of cactus growth and seem to support the hypothesis of the ontogenetic increase of phyllotaxis diversity due to transformations.

scholarly journals Habitat segregation of Gerres japonicus and G. limbatus in early stages in the Tien Yen estuary, Northern Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Trung Tran ◽  
Hau Duc Tran ◽  
Nam Hoang Chu ◽  
Thuy Thi Ta
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Early Life History ◽  
Nursery Ground ◽  
Middle Reach ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The Family ◽  
Salinity Preference ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
The Difference

Silver-biddy (Gerreidae: Gerres) are commercially important euryhaline fishes in coastal waters; however, information about their distribution during early stages in estuarine environments is poorly known. The present study aims to elucidate the habitat utilization of two species of the family, Gerres japonicus and G. limbatus as larvae and juveniles based on monthly collections from 2013 to 2015 in the Tien Yen estuary, northern Vietnam. They occurred from April to June for G. japonicus and in April and May for G. limbatus with a peak in May for both the species. Both G. japonicus and G. limbatus used the Tien Yen estuary as a nursery ground; however, the former species that colonized the shallows along the banks of the estuary extended to near freshwater habitat, whereas the latter was found at the end of the upper reach and the middle reach. The difference habitat use between the two species in the early life history may be related to their specific salinity preference as G. japonicus prefer lower salinities than G. limbatus.

scholarly journals John Barker, 1901-1970

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineer ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Family ◽  
Scientific Life

John Barker was born at Church End, Finchley, on 24 April 1901. His father was Dr Chesman Barker, a general practitioner who at one time hoped to become a surgeon; his great grandfather, Dr Elijah Barker was a second generation doctor. John Barker’s mother was Marguerite Emma Mellish, whose father was an organist with a great interest in science. John Barker’s school was Christ’s College, Finchley. He matriculated early after the 1914-18 war; he was a member of the O.T.C. and enjoyed sports. He left school in 1918 and spent the next year at Birkbeck College, obtaining a scholarship in 1919 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He lived on a staircase in New Court and some contemporaries came up with him from Christ’s College, Finchley, including Thomas Stiff and A. H. G. Palmer; these three and Kenworthy Scholfield were great friends and were notable and enthusiastic folk dancers, belonging to the Cambridge Morris Men. Thomas Stiff, a great friend of the family and one of John’s greatest friends in the early days at Trinity saw much of the family that included John’s sisters, Mary, Ruth and Jessie. John’s elder brother, Tom Barker, was a Royal Engineer trained to be a civil engineer at Woolwich Academy where he passed out First and was awarded the King’s Medal. His death towards the end of the 1914-18 war was a great loss to the Barker family. The retirement of Dr Chesman Barker and the loss of Tom Barker, greatly afflicted the family. Some of the activities that gave John special pleasure stemmed from his father’s interests in sailing and yachting. He greatly enjoyed sailing with friends on the south coast and on the Broads. He also owned a racing dinghy which was aptly named ‘Solanum’, the plant which figured in much of his scientific life. He was athletic, keen on games and with other members of the Botany School ran a successful hockey team.

INFORMED CONSENT

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-556
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Newborn Baby ◽  
Maximum Extent ◽  
The Family ◽  
Do So

Let us address ourselves to the problem of informed consent. I believe, as a physician who has had prior contact with the family, that I can persuade 99% of parents to my way of thinking if I really work at it, even if I am 100% wrong. If I tell them in such a way that I appear concerned and that I am knowledgeable and that I have their interests at heart and the interest of their foetus or their newborn baby, there is no question they will be totally agreeable to my suggestion. I think informed consent is an absolute farce, legalistically, morally and ethically. The information is what I want it to be. Certainly, the physician must try to involve the parents in decision making. He should do so to the maximum extent feasible, but we are fooling ourselves if we believe that the parent or the physician can make all the decisions.—Director of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Neurosis in Fifty Married Couples

1962 ◽  
Vol 108 (454) ◽  
pp. 265-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Ryle ◽  
Madge Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Research Fund ◽  
Class Iii ◽  
Children's Achievement ◽  
The Family

This paper, by a general practitioner and a psychiatric social worker, is based upon an investigation, at present in progress, into the influence of the family upon children's achievement and emotional adjustment, which is supported by the Mental Health Research Fund and supervised by Dr. D. A. Pond. In the present paper we are reporting on some of the data collected from part of the population being investigated. The main survey will include all families registered with the general practitioner (A.R.) where the head of the household is in Social Class III, IV or V, in which there are children born between 1949 and 1954, and from which at least one parent is also registered. From the first 70 families visited in this survey 50 couples, including those who cohabit but are not legally married, have been selected for the present study. The 20 excluded families consist of five where only one parent is registered with the G.P., four where the mother is separated or divorced, three unmarried mothers, and two families where one parent has died. Failure to co-operate fully, which seems more common in families known by the G.P. to be disturbed, led to the exclusion of six further families.

scholarly journals Oscillators As Decision Guides in Hedging Feeder Cattle: An Economic Evaluation

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Russell ◽  
John R. Franzmann
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Price Risk ◽  
Selective Transfer ◽  
Cattle Industry ◽  
Feeder Cattle ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
Hedging Strategies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cattle Producer ◽  
High Degree

In recent years, extremely variable price movements have caused a high degree of price risk in the cattle industry. Cattle producers who chose to accept this price risk at the correct time had extraordinary gains, whereas those who accepted this risk at the improper time had returns below cost of production. Hedging offers the cattle producer an excellent opportunity to transfer a portion of the price risk to another party. Selective transfer of the risk can both increase the magnitude of returns and decrease their variance [1, 2, 4]. The family of technical tools called oscillators, one of the most useful tools employed by commodity traders [6, p. 34], was used to develop hedging strategies for feeder cattle.

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