Delays in obstetric care increase the risk of neonatal near-miss morbidity events and death: a case-control study.

Background: To evaluate the association between delays in obstetric care and neonatal near-miss mortality events and death in a public maternity referral center.

Methods: This case-control study enrolled 142 neonates, meeting the near-miss criteria of 5-min Apgar < 7, weight < 1500 g, gestational age < 32 weeks, and use of mechanical ventilation or congenital malformation, as well as 284 controls (without the near-miss criteria), at a ratio of 1:2. After follow-up, the following outcomes were reclassified: survival of the neonatal period without the near-miss criteria (true "controls"), "near-miss," and "neonatal death.

Comparison between different types of carboxylmethylcellulose and other oenological additives used for white wine tartaric stabilization.

Carboxylmethylcellulose (CMC) is authorised to prevent wine tartaric instability. The effect of CMC structural characteristics on their effectiveness is not well understood. The main purpose of this study was to compare the impact of CMC's with different degrees of substitution and molecular weight, on tartaric stability, tartaric acid, mineral concentration, phenolic compounds, chromatic and sensory characteristics in white wines, and compare its effectiveness with other oenological additives.

Prevalence and risk factors associated with wheezing in the first year of life.

Objective: to investigate the prevalence and risk factors associated with wheezing in infants in the first year of life.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study, in which a validated questionnaire (Estudio Internacional de Sibilancias en Lactantes--International Study of Wheezing in Infants--EISL) was applied to parents of infants aged between 12 and 15 months treated in 26 of 85 primary health care units in the period between 2006 and 2007. The dependent variable, wheezing, was defined using the following standards: occasional (up to two episodes of wheezing) and recurrent (three or more episodes of wheezing).

Technology and cognitive ability: the use of new technologies and the design of digital interfaces.

This study is guided by the principle that there is no technology detached from an ideology. This ideology appears in the interfaces conditioning the relationship between people and digital artifacts. This article adopts as theoretical reference the User-Centered Design (UCD).

Alcoholic rhabdomyolysis: a review.

Two episodes of acute alcoholic myopathy occurring in one patient are reported to focus attention on a common problem, albeit one not well recognized. A brief review of rhabdomyolysis and its complications is presented.

Acute psychosis due to indomethacin.

Acute psychosis is a rare central nervous system side effect of indomethacin or sulindac. A case directly associated with its use is here presented with a brief review of the literature.