Models for Preterm Cortical Development Using Non Invasive Clinical EEG.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the piglet and the mouse as model systems for preterm cortical development. According to the clinical context, we used non invasive EEG recordings. As a prerequisite, we developed miniaturized Ag/AgCl electrodes for full band EEG recordings in mice and verified that Urethane had no effect on EEG band power.

Guidelines for the care of the child with special health care needs.

CSHCN present a challenge to the primary care provider. These children are medically complex, require services and supports well beyond those that typically developing children require, and command a considerable proportion of the pediatric health care budget. How clinics are organized can have a considerable impact on the delivery of care to this heterogeneous group of complicated children.

[Sports as therapy].

The risk of athletic physical activity is low if high risk patients are excluded. These patients have to undergo operation or intensive drug treatment before active rehabilitation. The benefit of physical rehabilitation is mainly an increase in the quality and enjoyment of life.

[Factors determining compliance in hypertensive patients].

The influence of various demographic, disease-related and therapeutic factors on compliance has been investigated in 110 patients with hypertension, heart failure or edema. While demographic factors such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, marital status and smoking habits, scarcely influenced drug adherence, duration of therapy showed the greatest compliance-lowering effect. In the 27 hospitalized patients compliance decreased in 3.

[Compliance in hypertensive patients and patients with cardiac insufficiency].

In the present study the compliance or drug-adherence of 83 patients with hypertension (n = 66), heart failure (n = 14) or edema of non-cardiac origin (n = 3) was investigated by the urine fluorescence method over an observation period of 17.8 +/- 15.1 weeks.