A new brace treatment similar for adolescent scoliosis and kyphosis based on restoration of thoracolumbar lordosis. Radiological and subjective clinical results after at least one year of treatment.

Study Design: A prospective treatment study with a new brace was conducted Objective. To evaluate radiological and subjective clinical results after one year conservative brace treatment with pressure onto lordosis at the thoracolumbar joint in children with scoliosis and kyphosis.

Summary Of Background Data: Conservative brace treatment of adolescent scoliosis is not proven to be effective in terms of lasting correction.

The role of the Professional Doctorate in developing professional practice.

Aims: The present study aims to reflect on, and analyse, one particular approach to the award of a Professional Doctorate.

Background: The concept of the 'Professional' Doctorate offers opportunities for the development of work-based skills which transcend professional boundaries. There is now an established basis for Professional Doctorates with many Universities offering a qualification of this nature.

A randomized comparison of vacuum extraction delivery with a rigid and a pliable cup.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness and complications of obstetric vacuum extraction with a rigid and a pliable cup, with a focus on neonatal retinal hemorrhage.

Methods: One hundred women requiring assisted delivery who met predefined criteria for vacuum extraction were randomly assigned to be delivered by the classic rigid Malmström cup or the pliable Silastic cup.

Results: Because of the faster induction of vacuum, delivery occurred more rapidly with the pliable cup, but the pliable cup detached significantly more often than the rigid cup.

The pliable obstetrical vacuum cup: application and opinions in The Netherlands.

A questionnaire was sent to all hospital obstetric units in The Netherlands to obtain information about the use of soft cups for vacuum extraction. Over 90% of the 156 units responded. Vacuum extraction was used twice as often as forceps for instrumental vaginal delivery.