Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase the Use of Nasogastric Hydration in Infants With Bronchiolitis.

Background And Objectives: Intravenous (IV) hydration is used primarily in children with bronchiolitis at our institution. Because nasogastric (NG) hydration can provide better nutrition, the goal of our quality improvement (QI) initiative was to increase the rate of NG hydration in eligible children 1 to 23 months old with bronchiolitis by 20% over 6 months.

Methods: We used Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to increase the use of NG hydration in eligible children.

Adolescents' views on barriers to health care: a pilot study.

Objectives: To determine from adolescents using health care their: 1) perceptions of barriers to obtaining health services, 2) views on how to overcome the barriers and 3) views on how to create an adolescent-friendly primary care practice.

Design: Six focus group interviews.

Methods: Adolescents 11-21 years old from three health centers in the Bronx were recruited.

Channel opening by anesthetics and GABA induces similar changes in the GABAA receptor M2 segment.

For many general anesthetics, their molecular basis of action involves interactions with GABA(A) receptors. Anesthetics produce concentration-dependent effects on GABA(A) receptors. Low concentrations potentiate submaximal GABA-induced currents.