Publications by authors named "B F Walsh"
Background: Appendicectomy is a common procedure in children. Regional anaesthesia helps reduce requirements for opioids and hospital stay and enhances recovery. Laparoscopic-assisted Transversus Abdominus Plane block (L-TAP) was shown to be efficient and potentially superior to port site infiltration (PSI); however, this was not previously studied in paediatric appendicitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Maximising social workers' contributions to primary care requires clarity about their scope of practice in this context. This scoping review sought to clarify what is known about social work's scope of practice in primary care settings.
Design: A scoping review design guided by the five-stage scoping review framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley and the updated JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis.
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- Skin-penetrating nematodes, like Strongyloides stercoralis, infect nearly one billion people by penetrating skin and developing into adults in the host's small intestine.
- Researchers investigated how these nematodes use carbon dioxide (CO) to find hosts and navigate within them, revealing that the larvae exhibit different responses to CO depending on their life stage.
- Specific sensory neurons and the receptor Ss-GCY-9 are crucial for these CO-evoked behaviors, providing insights that could lead to new treatments targeting the nematodes' chemosensory pathways.
Objectives: To determine the incidence of later epilepsy in full-term infants with neonatal encephalopathy (NE) who undergo continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) monitoring in the neonatal period and to identify potential predictors of later epilepsy both in infants with and without electrographic neonatal seizures (ENS).
Methods: This was a retrospective observational study performed at Cork University Maternity Hospital, Cork, Ireland, between 2003 and 2019. All term infants with NE had a minimum of 2 h of cEEG monitoring in the neonatal period.
The EDA-5 was translated from English to Portuguese, followed by a cross-cultural adaptation for use in Brazil and Portugal. Two independent translators worked on the Brazilian and European Portuguese versions, which were then reviewed to create a harmonized version. This version was back-translated into English and approved by the original author.
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