Implementing family based treatment in a child and youth eating disorder program: impact on admissions.

Objectives: Anorexia Nervosa (AN) treatment is frequently associated with high costs often due to the use of hospitalization. In Family Based Treatment (FBT) a main goal is to manage recovery of AN in the home environment rather than relying on lengthy hospital admissions. This study examined whether the use of hospitalization altered following the introduction of FBT to a youth eating disorders program in 2009.

D-cycloserine-augmented one-session treatment of specific phobias in children and adolescents.

Background: D-Cycloserine has potential to enhance exposure therapy outcomes. The current study presents a preliminary randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind pilot trial of DCS-augmented one-session treatment (OST) for youth (7-14 years) with specific phobia. A secondary aim of this pilot study was to explore the effects of youth age and within-session fear reduction as potential moderators of DCS outcomes in order to generate hypotheses for a larger trial.

Quality improvement: The delivery of true early mobilisation in an intensive care unit.

Early mobilisation initiatives within the critical care environment have been shown to improve outcomes for patients. Early mobilisation has been defined as occurring within the first two to five days of the intensive care stay, but in practice this can be difficult to deliver. We conducted a quality improvement (QI) project to deliver early mobilisation in a large general intensive care unit.

Design of a low-cost and compact 1 × 5 wavelength-selective switch for access networks.

This paper describes the design, modeling, construction, and testing of a low-cost and compact (80  mm×50  mm) 1×5 wavelength-selective switch. The core beam-deflecting element of the switch is a nematic liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulator. The switch is designed for coarse wavelength-division multiplexing wavelengths in order to bring the benefit of a low-cost, compact, and robust switching design toward the customer end in the access network.

A repeated measures, randomised cross-over trial, comparing the acute exercise response between passive and active sitting in critically ill patients.

Background: Early mobilisation of critically ill patients is safe and beneficial, but the metabolic cost of exercise remains unquantified. This study compared the acute exercise response in critically ill participants during passive and active sitting.

Method: We conducted a prospective, randomised, cross-over study, in ventilated patients receiving rehabilitative physiotherapy.