Publications by authors named "Barbara De Vito"
Article Synopsis
- Drowning is the third leading cause of injury death for kids globally, especially affecting ages 1-4 and adolescents.
- The commentary outlines the causes of drowning and factors that influence outcomes, like how long someone is submerged and whether they experience hypothermia.
- It highlights the importance of proper medical treatment before and after hospital care, including resuscitation, oxygen therapy, and rewarming, while emphasizing the need for more safety measures to prevent child drowning deaths.
Introduction: The measurement of pain is the fundamental prerequisite for its proper management. Since newborns are unable to communicate verbally, neonatal algometric scales have been developed. However, no gold standard has been identified yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman GATA3 haploinsufficiency leads to HDR (hypoparathyroidism, deafness, and renal dysplasia) syndrome. The development of a specific subset of organs in which this transcription factor is expressed appears exquisitely sensitive to gene dosage. We report on a 14-year-old patient with symptomatic hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural bilateral deafness, unilateral renal dysplasia, bilateral palpebral ptosis, and horizontal nystagmus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the cardiovascular autonomic function in pediatric obesity of different duration by using standard time domain, spectral heart rate variability (HRV), and nonlinear methods.
Research Methods And Procedures: Fifty obese children (13.9 +/- 1.