Publications by authors named "M Elizabeth Webb"

Unlabelled: Chest trauma is a common presentation to major trauma centres. Risk assessment tools have proven useful to support decision making in this group and the STUMBL (STUdy of the Management of BLunt chest wall trauma) score is one such measure that has been increasingly utilised. The aim of this study was to retrospectively validate the STUMBL score in an Australian population of patients admitted following chest trauma.

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Objectives: The EyeGuide Focus system is a simple, portable, test of visual tracking with potential use for concussion screening. This study investigated the repeatability, reproducibility, distribution, and modifiers of EyeGuide Focus measurements in healthy elite Rugby players.

Design: Cross sectional repeated measures study and controlled pre-test post-test sub-study.

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Today nearly 9 out of 10 certified nurse-midwives/certified midwives (CNMs/CMs) attend births in hospitals. As the demand for hospital midwifery care has increased over the last quarter century, CNM/CMs' scope of practice has expanded to include care for high-risk patients. Hospital CNMs/CMs are faced with the challenge of balancing support for physiologic birth with an increasingly complex pregnant population cared for in a medicalized ecosystem.

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The genus Libengaia Linnavuori is redescribed along with one new subgenus Libengaia (Nandiana) subgen. nov. (type species: Litura bharatiensis Malhotra & Sharma) and one new species, L.

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