Obstetric complications as a risk factor for first psychotic episodes in childhood and adolescence.

There are reports of significant association between obstetric complications (OC) and childhood psychosis. Authors conducted a case-control study of 102 children and adolescents with a first episode psychosis (FEP) and 94 healthy controls (HC), using the obstetric complications scale (OCS) and their medical records, to examine the risk of FPE. Patients were recruited from child and adolescent psychiatry units at six university hospitals and controls from publicly-funded schools of similar characteristics and from the same geographic areas.

Contaminated feeding bottles: the source of an outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: Outbreaks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been reported in relationship with contamination of staff fingernails, hands, water baths, hand lotions and others. To our knowledge, contamination of milk and feeding bottles as a source of an outbreak of P aeruginosa infections has not been reported. The incidence of P aeruginosa infection/colonization in our neonatal intensive care unit increased from 1.

Postpyloric enteral nutrition in the critically ill child with shock: a prospective observational study.

Background: Tolerance to enteral nutrition in the critically ill child with shock has not been studied. The purpose of the study was to analyze the characteristics of enteral nutrition and its tolerance in the critically ill child with shock and to compare this with non-shocked patients.

Methods: A prospective, observational study was performed including critically ill children with shock who received postpyloric enteral nutrition (PEN).

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Objective: To report the results of a survey directed at medical and nursing staff as a method of improving the quality of procedures, in accordance with standard ISO 9001:2000.

Method: Cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire. A sample size of 405 was calculated as 405, for nurses and 337 for medical staff, assuming an overall percentage of satisfaction of 80%, with a precision of 3.

[Importance of hepatology in the current Spanish health environment].

Objectives: To find out the impact of hepatic diseases on care activity at national and autonomous region level, and in a tertiary hospital with a Hepatology Department.

Material And Methods: An analysis was carried out on BMDS data (Basic Minimum Data Set) from 1999 to 2003. In the study of cases from the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid, data bases from the years 2000-2004 were used, and indicators were calculated, such as the percentages of digestive diseases of the total hospital discharges, of digestive diseases that were admitted into the Digestive Diseases Department, and of the total discharges form this Department that originated from hepatic diseases.

Early transpyloric enteral nutrition in critically ill children.

Objective: We compared the tolerance of early (within the first 24 h after admission to the pediatric intensive care unit) and late transpyloric enteral nutrition in critically ill children.

Methods: We performed a prospective observational study including all critically ill children fed using transpyloric enteral nutrition. The clinical characteristics, energy intake, tolerance, and complications of nutritional delivery between the children with early (first 24 h) and late (after 24 h, range 1-43 d) transpyloric enteral nutrition were compared.

Transpyloric enteral nutrition in the critically ill child with renal failure.

Objective: To study the efficacy and tolerance of transpyloric enteral nutrition (TEN) in the critically ill child with acute renal failure (ARF).

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: Paediatric intensive care unit.

Transpyloric enteral feeding in the postoperative of cardiac surgery in children.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess the utility of transpyloric enteral nutrition in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery in children.

Methods: A prospective, observational study was performed on children receiving transpyloric enteral nutrition in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery. The type of nutrition, duration, tolerance, and complications were studied.

Circulating dendritic cells subsets and regulatory T-cells at multiple sclerosis relapse: differential short-term changes on corticosteroids therapy.

Glucocorticoids remain the treatment of choice for MS relapses. However, little is known on the effect of intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) on dendritic cells (DCs) and regulatory T-cells (TReg). Our main goal was to quantify circulating myeloid and plasmacytoid DCs (mDCs and pDCs), and TReg at MS relapse versus healthy controls; and to analyse the short-term changes after IVMP for MS relapse.

Continuous venovenous renal replacement therapy using a pulsatile blood pump.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a pulsatile pump for continuous renal replacement therapy in a pediatric-size animal model. A vacuum-driven, tubular, blood-pumping device was used in 13 pigs weighing 10.4+/-1.