Tools for Nutrition Assessment of Adults with Cerebral Palsy: Development of a Gold Standard.

Purpose Of Review: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders caused by non-stabilized cerebral lesions. Individuals with this disorder are at a higher risk of suffering from malnutrition and other related detrimental effects to their quality of life. For this reason, accurate methods of nutritional assessment are vital for people suffering from this condition.

[Randomized prospective study on the influence distal block and Gamma 3 nail on the treatment of intertrochanteric fractures of femur].

Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess the need to lock the Gamma 3 nail (Stryker, Mahwah New Jersey USA) distally for intertrochanteric fractures of femur 31-A1 and 31-A2 of the AO.

Material And Methods: Details were recorded on a sample of 177 patients with intertrochanteric femoral fractures treated in our hospital by a standard Gamma nail between June 2011 and January 2013. A prospective study was conducted by randomizing patients by year of birth, even numbers with, or odd number without, distal locking, forming two groups of 90 and 87 fractures, respectively.

[The effect of phenobarbital on the severity of intraventricular hemorrhage].

During an eight-months period, we studied every newborns under 34 gestation weeks who needed mechanical ventilation (MV) from the moment they were born and whom had an ultrasonogram without intraventricular hemorrhage in the first six hours after birth. Patient were separated in two groups: the first, a group of 30 patients received phenobarbital 20 mg/kg IV in the first 6 hours of life and then 2.5 mg/kg, I.

[Nosocomial infection in newborn infants on mechanical ventilation].

During a two-year period (1988-1989), were studied newborns treated with intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV). The goal was to know incidence of infections in these patients and characteristics of these process. Of 187, 40 (21.

[Indomethacin in the prevention of subependymal-intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm newborns with conventional mechanical ventilation].

The results of a double blind study to evaluate the efficiency of prophylactic endovenous indomethacin versus placebo for prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in newborn infants between 28 to 36 weeks of age who were intubated at the delivery room and required mechanical ventilation in NICU are presented. Fourty six patients required mechanical ventilation, but 14 neonates had IVH evaluated by ultrasound when were admitted to the Unit. At least 32 infants were studied, 16 for each group.