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Neurostimulator-induced ECG artefacts: A systematic analysis.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
April 2021
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany; Department of Neurosurgery, St. Barbara-Hospital, Hamm, Germany.
Objectives: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is known to interfere with electrocardiographic (ECG) examinations. In emergency situations, such electrical interferences can not only thwart ECG diagnostics, but even induce an ECG pattern that causes the emergency medical service to initiate inadequate or even harmful therapy. Aim of this prospective study was to evaluate factors influencing ECG interpretation in DBS and to evaluate the susceptibility of ECG criteria 'frequency', 'rhythm', 'regularity', 'QRS-configuration', and 'ST-segment' on neurostimulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to compare trends in both hospital admissions and notifications of viral meningitis in the North Eastern Health Board (NEHB). Hospital admissions from 1997 to 2001, involving NEHB residents with an infectious disease diagnosis, were examined and viral meningitis cases were analyzed. During this period 265 NEHB residents were admitted to hospital with viral meningitis--an increase of 429% between 1997 and 2001 with the bulk of this increase during 2000 and 2001.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfant feeding: factors affecting initiation, exclusivity and duration.
Ir Med J
January 2005
Department of Public Health, North Eastern Health Board, Railway Street, Navan, Meath.
The study objective was to determine the initiation rate, duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding, in women resident in the North Eastern Health Board (NEHB) region. An additional aim was to identify determinants that influence the initiation and duration of all types of breastfeeding. All eligible mothers completed a self-administered questionnaire.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe burden of alcohol misuse on emergency in-patient hospital admissions among residents from a health board region in Ireland.
Addiction
October 2004
Department of Public Health, North-Eastern Health Board, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Aims: To identify in-patient emergency admissions to acute hospitals of residents from a health board region in the Republic of Ireland with an acute alcohol intoxication diagnosis; to profile the admissions and to assess whether the increase in alcohol consumption in Ireland has been mirrored by an increase in alcohol related emergency admissions over the same time period.
Design: A retrospective review of hospital admissions using Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE) data and alcohol consumption trends using data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Setting: Acute hospitals in the Republic of Ireland.
Consumer satisfaction with child health clinics.
Ir Med J
May 2004
Department of Public Health, North Eastern Health Board, Navan, Co. Meath.
Consumer satisfaction surveys are used to assist in monitoring the quality of health care service delivery. In order to capture the views of those attending child health clinics in the community setting, a cohort of attendees to child health clinics in a health board region was sent a pre-piloted questionnaire enquiring about the clinic type attended, appointment details, facilities and environment of the health centre attended and experiences of communication and information at the clinic. Of 3,424 parents/guardians contacted, 2,402 (70.
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