Adaptation of a Caregiver-Implemented Naturalistic Communication Intervention for Spanish-Speaking Families of Mexican Immigrant Descent: A Promising Start.

Purpose Caregiver-implemented naturalistic communication interventions (CI-NCIs) support the communication abilities of young children with language disorders and enhance the communication behaviors of their caregivers. Yet, few CI-NCIs have been adapted and tested for feasibility with families who speak Spanish at home. This study addresses this gap in the literature by examining the social validity and preliminary outcomes of an adapted CI-NCI program with families who identified as Mexican immigrants and spoke Spanish.

Healthcare networks services for patients and large public: methodological and engineering issues.

In this paper, we analyse the services supplied by innovative and transversal healthcare organisations to satisfy patients and large public requirements and we illustrate them with the French healthcare networks. We classify these services in two groups, healthcare delivery services and health related information services, and we define three layers for their possible contexts. We will use an Information System perspective to investigate about various methodological approaches to realise each group of services and we compare their challenges and difficulties.

[Outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in general hospital intensive care unit].

Mantes' hospital polyvalent intensive care unit (ICU) experienced an outbreak episode caused by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Suspicion of physicians was strengthened by observing the weekly reading of multiresistant germs and the significative increase of MRSA carriers incidence rate, compared with the number of admission in the ICU: 5.5% to 11.

Hearing fluctuation during migraine attacks. Activity of propranolol-HCl in rats.

Transitory hearing impairment has been well documented in humans during basilar migraine attacks. Ischemia induced by activation of central nervous system adrenoreceptors by cAMP is one of the mechanisms that has been implicated, as well as calcium metabolism alterations. Propranolol-HCl has proven to be an effective treatment.

Three potassium currents in mouse motor nerve terminals.

A study of the K conductance of the presynaptic membrane has been performed in the triangularis sterni muscle of the mouse. External currents generated in the presynaptic terminals upon invasion by action potentials have been recorded using microelectrodes inserted into the perineurium of preterminal nerve bundles. The voltage-dependent K current could be pharmacologically dissected into fast (IKf) and slow (IKs) components.