Priorities of the Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury Population: An International Study on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.

Background/objectives: Overall priorities of the international pediatric-onset spinal cord injury (SCI) population are unknown. The purpose was to describe and compare Life and Health (L&H) domain overall priorities of European youth with SCI and their parents and caregivers (P&C).

Methods: A survey with a cross-sectional design, prepared by the PEPSCI Collaboration, was conducted in six European countries.

Pediatric health and life domain priorities: A national survey of people with spinal cord injury and their parents and caregivers.

Context/objective: No information is available regarding priorities for pediatric-onset spinal cord injury (SCI). This study described the Health and Life (H&L) domain priorities of youth with pediatric-onset SCI and their parents/caregivers living in Spain.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Health and LifeDomain ResearchPriorities in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Pediatric-Onset Spinal Cord Injury: A National Cross-Sectional Survey in England.

Background: Although feedback from people with adult-onset spinal cord injury (SCI) has been considered in developing research programs, little is known about pediatric-onset SCI priorities.

Objectives: To describe the health and life (H&L) domain research priorities of youth with pediatric-onset SCI living in England.

Methods: Youth with pediatric-onset SCI (≥6 months) were recruited from five English rehabilitation centers and invited with their parents/caregivers to complete the age-appropriate surveys designed by the Pan-European Paediatric Spinal Cord Injury (PEPSCI) collaboration.

Emerging Pathogens and a Current-Use Pesticide: Potential Impacts on Eastern Hellbenders.

Populations of the eastern hellbender Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis have been declining for decades, and emerging pathogens and pesticides are hypothesized to be contributing factors. However, few empirical studies have attempted to test the potential effects of these factors on hellbenders. We simultaneously exposed subadult hellbenders to environmentally relevant concentrations of either Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) or a frog virus 3-like ranavirus (RV), a combination of the pathogens, or each pathogen following exposure to a glyphosate herbicide (Roundup).

Predictive equations over estimating resting metabolic rate in individual with spinal cord injury requiring mechanical ventilation support - A case series.

The impact of mechanical ventilation on energy expenditure after spinal cord injury (SCI) is sparse. The objective of this case-series is to measure 15-minutes resting metabolic rate (RMR) to determine 24-hours measured-RMR (m-RMR) using QUARK indirect calorimeter (IC) and; compare the m-RMR with estimated RMR (e-RMR) using four commonly used predictive equations (Harris-Benedict, Mifflin St-Jeor, Henry and Schofield). We measured the RMR of four patients with SCI (one male and three female; mean age: 58.

Positive airway pressure for sleep-disordered breathing in acute quadriplegia: a randomised controlled trial.

Rationale: Highly prevalent and severe sleep-disordered breathing caused by acute cervical spinal cord injury (quadriplegia) is associated with neurocognitive dysfunction and sleepiness and is likely to impair rehabilitation.

Objective: To determine whether 3 months of autotitrating CPAP would improve neurocognitive function, sleepiness, quality of life, anxiety and depression more than usual care in acute quadriplegia.

Methods And Measurements: Multinational, randomised controlled trial (11 centres) from July 2009 to October 2015.

Women's experiences of sexuality after spinal cord injury: a UK perspective.

Study Design: Cross-sectional phenomenological qualitative study.

Objectives: To investigate women's experience of sexuality after spinal cord injury (SCI) with a focus on rehabilitation and manging practical impact.

Setting: Women with SCI living in the community in United Kingdom (UK).

Influenza surveillance on 'foie gras' duck farms in Bulgaria, 2008-2012.

Objectives: Ducks can shed and spread influenza A viruses (IAVs) while showing no disease signs. Our objective was to clarify the role of 'foie gras' ducks in the circulation of IAVs in Bulgaria.

Methods: Monthly avian influenza surveillance was conducted on 63 'foie gras' duck farms, 52 of which were surveyed throughout the study between November 2008 and April 2012.

Possible basis for the emergence of H1N1 viruses with pandemic potential from avian hosts.

Influenza A viruses of the H1N1 subtype have emerged from the avian influenza gene pool in aquatic birds and caused human pandemics at least twice during the past century. Despite this fact, surprisingly little is known about the H1N1 gene pool in the aquatic bird reservoir. A preliminary study showed that an H1N1 virus from a shorebird of the Charadriiformes order was transmitted between animals through the airborne route of infection, whereas an H1N1 virus from a bird of the Anseriformes order was not.

Nutritional supplement usage in patients admitted to a spinal cord injury center.

Objectives: To (1) assess food intake; (2) establish the prevalence of dietary supplement usage and its associated cost (oral nutritional supplements (ONS); vitamin and mineral supplements (VMS)) and; (3) identify the characteristics of nutritional supplement users among patients admitted to a spinal cord injury (SCI) center.

Study Design: A single center survey.

Methods: Standardized questionnaires were used to collect demographic information, food consumption over a 24-hour period, and the use of nutritional supplements.

Magnetic resonance imaging of pressure sores in spinal cord injured patients: accuracy in predicting osteomyelitis.

Objective: Identify key magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features that have a significant correlation with osteomyelitis of pressure ulcers in spinal injury patients.

Design: Retrospective review study.

Participants: Adult patients admitted to the National Spinal Injuries Centre with spinal cord injury (SCI) and signs of pressure ulceration investigated with MRI.

Interobserver agreement of magnetic resonance imaging signs of osteomyelitis in pelvic pressure ulcers in patients with spinal cord injury.

Objective: To examine the interobserver reliability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signs of osteomyelitis in complex chronic pressure ulcers in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Retrospective review study.

Setting: Specialist SCI rehabilitation center.

Use of digital images in the assessment and treatment of pressure ulcers in patients with spinal injuries in community settings.

We conducted a retrospective review of the digital images in the clinical records of 50 patients with pressure ulcers. Ten nurses independently assessed one image from each patient. There was a total of 414 responses from the nurses about the stage and location of the ulcers (83% response rate).

The social behaviours of inhibited children in and out of preschool.

The goal of the present study was to explore the social behaviours of inhibited children in familiar social contexts, including: (1) free play with peers at preschool and (2) social activities at home and in the community. The initial participants were N = 248 preschool children between the ages of 42 and 66 months. From this initial data, two smaller groups of inhibited (N = 12) and uninhibited comparison (N = 12) children were identified.

Letters.

SPINAL INJURY AND PRESSURE SORE PREVENTION TREATMENT FOR OVERGRANULATION.