Cerebral oximetry with cerebral blood volume index in detecting pediatric stroke in a pediatric ED.

Background: Despite pediatric stroke awareness and pediatric stroke activation systems, recognition and imaging delays along with activation inconsistency still occur. Reliable objective pediatric stroke detection tools are needed to improve detection and activations. Regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rcso2) with cerebral blood volume index (CBVI) can detect abnormal cerebral physiology.

Pediatric Acute Stroke Protocol Activation in a Children's Hospital Emergency Department.

Background And Purpose: Pediatric acute stroke teams are a new phenomenon. We sought to characterize the final diagnoses of children with brain attacks in the emergency department where the pediatric acute stroke protocol was activated and to describe the time to neurological evaluation and neuroimaging.

Methods: Clinical and demographic information was obtained from a quality improvement database and medical records for consecutive patients (age, ≤20 years) presenting to a single institution's pediatric emergency department where the acute stroke protocol was activated between April 2011 and October 2014.

Relationships between core strength, hip external rotator muscle strength, and star excursion balance test performance in female lacrosse players.

Unlabelled: PURPOSEBACKGROUND: Female athletes have high rates of lower extremity (LE) injuries. Core strength (CS) and hip external rotator (HER) strength have been suggested to be factors that influence LE injury risk. Better balance has also been shown to decrease LE injury risk.

Premature ovarian failure and body composition changes with adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Objective: Premature ovarian failure and weight gain are both common in women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. The objective of this preliminary analysis was to characterize changes in weight and body composition in premenopausal women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer and investigate whether these changes were associated with chemotherapy-induced ovarian failure (CIOF).

Methods: The body composition of 43 premenopausal women with stage I or II breast cancer was measured using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry within 4 weeks before beginning chemotherapy and after 12 months from baseline.