Cervical Spine Collar Removal by Emergency Room Nurses: A Quality Improvement Project.

Introduction: The Canadian C-Spine Rule (CCR) is a clinical decision aid to facilitate the safe removal of cervical collars in the alert, orientated, low-risk adult trauma patient. Few health care settings have assessed initiatives to train charge nurses to use the CCR. This practice improvement project conducted in a secondary trauma center in Canada aimed to (1) train charge nurses of the emergency room to use the CCR, (2) monitor its use throughout the project period, and (3) compare the assessments of the charge nurses with those of emergency physicians.

NonREM sleep mentation in chronically-treated persons with schizophrenia.

This study examined the laboratory dream content reported by 14 patients with schizophrenia and 15 controls, with a focus on reports obtained from NonREM sleep. Both the controls' and patients' frequency of dream recall following awakenings from NonREM and REM sleep were similar to values reported for healthy participants. Patients' NonREM sleep narratives were shorter than those from controls.

Dream content in chronically-treated persons with schizophrenia.

Many clinical, laboratory and non-laboratory studies have examined dream content reported by patients with schizophrenia but findings have been variable and inconsistent. Using both questionnaire-based measures and laboratory REM sleep awakenings, we investigated dream content in 14 patients with schizophrenia (mean age=25.5+/-3.

EEG correlates of emotions in dream narratives from typical young adults and individuals with autistic spectrum disorders.

The relationship between emotional dream content and Alpha and Beta REM sleep EEG activity was investigated in typical individuals and in Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Dream narratives of persons with ASD contained fewer emotional elements. In both groups, emotions correlated positively with slow Alpha (8.

Dream content analysis in persons with an autism spectrum disorder.

Dream questionnaires were completed by 28 young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) participants. Seventy-nine typically developed individual served as the control group. In a subset of 17 persons with ASD and 11 controls matched for verbal IQ, dream narratives were obtained following REM sleep awakenings in a sleep laboratory.

Intracranial angiography in the treatment of cerebral vascular accidents; reports of cases and a review of the literature.

Five cases of intracerebral hematoma, including one case of calcified intracerebral hematoma, are presented and treatment is discussed. The role of carotid arteriography, stellate ganglion blocks, vasodilator drugs and operation in the treatment of cerebral vascular accidents is discussed and typical cases of the various vascular anomalies of the cerebral vascular system are presented.