review of spinal pathways clinical examples

... cross-checking of reference lists Combinations of search terms ‘spinal anesthesia’, ‘general anesthesia’, and ‘in-guinal hernia’ were used Two reviewers independently checked the titles and abstracts of ... one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures To date, there is no consensus on which anesthesia should be used The objective of this meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy of spinal ... 14 ] Item 1: The selection of the study groups Demonstration that outcome of interest was not present at Item 3: The ascertainment of either the exposure or outcome of interest for cohort studies...

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2022, 01:29

... presentation of these procedures was beyond the scope of this paper In cases in which systematic reviews of the literature were found, the individual studies included in the reviews were not reviewed ... reproduction of concordant pain upon infiltration, fol-lowed by 80% or more reduction of pain as a result of injection They found that the presence of 3 positive tests carried a SE of 0.94, a SP of 0.78, ... Trang 1Open AccessReview A diagnosis-based clinical decision rule for spinal pain part 2: review of the literature Donald R Murphy*1,2,3, Eric L Hurwitz4...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... concentration of total PBDEs in serum of WEEE dismantling workers of Guiyu was twice as high than that of a control group (from a village located 50 km away of Guiyu) Although studies like the one of the ... 8 orders of magnitude higher than the range of PBDE concentrations in the dissolved phase of coastal waters of Hong Kong (3.1 × 10− 5–1.2×10− 4μg l− 1,Wurl et al., 2006) and 7 orders of magnitude ... human population and the environment of Guiyu, there is evidence of transport of PCDD/Fs and PBDD/Fs from the WEEE recycling site of Guiyu to the nearby area of Chendian (Li et al., 2007a) Unlikefine...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... [17] Heteronymous pathways are spinal pathways that can regulate the activity of motoneurones acting at different joints and thus, contrarily to homonymous pathways, link different spinal levels ... levels of coactivation of Sol and GL (expressed as a % of their maximal EMG) dur-ing maximal activations of VL and of RF, for the knee extension task in all participants Coactivations of Sol ... activity of motoneurones of muscles acting at the same joint or at different joints Several studies have linked the malfunction of these pathways to motor deficits on the paretic side of stroke...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... number of RCTs, trials were not excluded because of trial quality (design) or insufficient number of patients A trial quality score was assigned (scale of 1-5) according to the method of Jadad ... blinding: author, location of study site, journal, year of publication, study design, number of patients, demographic characteristics, clinical outcomes, and follow-up period In all of the included articles, ... systematic review Introduction Emphysema is a chronic and progressive disease, characterized by permanent impairment of pulmonary terminal airway, hyperinflation of parenchyma and loss of elastic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... implementation of this new information technology We conducted a systematic review of rando-mized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing the effectiveness of CCDSSs for PPC on process of care, patient ... each study were asked to review the extracted data for their study and offer comments on the extracted data. Assessment of study quality Details of our quality assessment of included RCTs are published ... 2010 and the results of the search process are consolidated here Trang 5Table 1 Summary of results of CCDSS trials of primary preventive careStudy Method Score Indication No of centres/ providers/...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... [27] • Lack of applicability ❍ Characteristics of the patient Lack of agreement with the applicability of SDM to practice population based on the characteristics of the patient [27] ❍ Clinical ... understanding of SDM [30] ❍ Increased uncertainty Perception that the use of SDM will increase uncertainty (for example, lack of predictability, of structure, of information [30] ❍ Not modifiable/way of ... health professionals' clinical practice Except for "lack of awareness," that is, the inability of health professionals to state that shared decision-making exists, the whole range of barriers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... included a scoring of the fol-lowing components: definition of study population, the likelihood of bias, adequate blinding, the accuracy of outcome measurements, duration of follow-up and selective ... osteoporosis are important causes of morbidity and mortality in the elderly The co-occurrence of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis prompted us to review the evidence of an association between cardiovascular ... cardiovas-cular risk [5-8] This relationship is often regarded as a result of aging; however, recent evidence suggests a direct association, independent of age and traditional cardiovascular risk...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... [10,11] Although there was Review Clinical review: A systematic review of corticosteroid use in infections Jody Aberdein1and Mervyn Singer2 1Senior House Officer, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, ... disease This may be in the form of 30 mg prednisolone daily for 14 days Grade of evidence II; grade of recommendation C Cystic fibrosis A review of 10 trials of inhaled steroids in cystic fibrosis ... strength of evidence for the use of corticosteroids in specified infections, and to make appropriate graded recommendations Methodology The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... AccessRelevance of laboratory testing for the diagnosis of primary immunodeficiencies: a review of case-based examples of selected immunodeficiencies Roshini S Abraham Abstract The field of primary ... education and awareness, leading to identification of new diseases, new molecular diagnoses of existing clinical phenotypes, broadening of the spectrum of clinical and phenotypic presentations associated ... healthy donors This review highlights a few of the laboratory assays available for the diagnostic work-up of broad categories of PIDs, based on immunophenotyping, followed by examples of disease-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... presence of cervical spinal cord compression of various aetiologies A summary of the QUADAS components for each of the studies is shown in Table 12 Discussion The purpose of this systematic review ... 4 to 12 of a possible 14 Twenty-nine percent of the studies achieved a score of 10 or more The papers covered a wide range of tests for spine conditions Conclusion: There was a lack of quantity ... and quality of orthopaedic tests for the spine found in the literature There is a lack of high quality research regarding the accuracy of spinal orthopaedic tests Due to this lack of evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... aspect of clinical trial methodology in cervical manipulation studies Introduction Clinical trials of spinal manipulation for neck pain have been published since the early 1980’s Numerous reviews of ... critical of the extant clinical trials in manipulation for neck pain Vernon et al [10] conducted a systematic review of the outcome of control groups used in clinical trials of conservative treatments ... has been no similar review of the control proce-dures and control group outcomes of trials of manipula-tion in the cervical spine for neck pain and headaches, although a review of control group...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... HealthOpen Access Review The clinical effectiveness of different parenting programmes for children with conduct problems: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials Address: 1 Unit of Public ... to be of good quality on the basis of only one threat to validity out of a total possible of five [25-28] No evidence of publication bias was found Effectiveness results Parent-report of outcome ... Review Introduction Conduct problems are common and disabling Based on a survey by the Office of National Statistics (UK) from 1999[1], 5.3% of all children and adolescents between the ages of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... resurgence of interest in the clinical use of inert gases In the present paper we review the use of inert gases as anesthetics and neuroprotectants, with particular attention to the clinical use of xenon ... the eff ect of helium was the result of a benefi cial eff ect of pressure per se combined with an attenuation of the deleterious eff ects of nitrogen [77] Interestingly, an in vitro model of hypoxic/ischemic ... of added glycine (black bars) gives robust protection (32 ± 6% of control injury) However, the protective eff ect of 50% atm xenon is abolished in the presence of 100 μM glycine Addition of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... probably by reflux of organisms gaining access to the catheter lumen from failure of closed drainage or contamination of collection bag urine The relative contribution of each of the three routes ... immobilization of the catheter, taped to the thigh; (4) position of the catheter tubing below the level of the patient but above the bag, (5) position of the collection bag, below the level of the patient ... guidelines, the effect of compliance with the individual aspects of catheter care has not been adequately examined Therefore, the second part of this large prospective observational study of CAUTI was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:28

... Journal of Medical Sciences 2016; 13(10): 790-799 doi: 10.7150/ijms.16489 Review Clinical importance of the middle meningeal artery: A review of the literature Jinlu Yu, Yunbao Guo, Baofeng Xu, ... systematic review of the importance of the MMA In this paper, we present a review to increase the understanding of the role of the MMA in neurosurgery Pathway for the embolization of DAVFs DAVFs ... treatment of a variety of neurosurgical diseases However, no systematic review describing the importance of MMA has been published In this study, we used the PUBMED database to perform a review of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2020, 10:55

... confirming diagnosis; detection of unanticipated findings; modification of surgical proce­ dures; assessment of the adequacy of the procedure; guidance of revision; monitoring of intracardiac air, ven­ ... systole, and often has normal PWD and CFD profiles In addition, M-mode imaging can help determine the direction of movement of the flap in systole, and thereby identify the location of the true ... oflife and high rates of morbidity and mortality At the age of 40, the life­ time risk of developing heart failure is 20%, and the 1 -year heart failure mortality rate is 20% 1 The num­ ber of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2020, 12:50

... which negatively affect their quality of life [2] Children with cancer often report pain (up to 89% of patients in an advanced stage of the disease) and over 70% of them some-times report severe pain ... of paediatric oncological patients Methods Systematic review of current literature This review was performed in accordance with the Cochrane Handbook and the Prisma Statement for Systematic Reviews ... chi-square test Results Systematic review The PUMBED and EMBASE search produced 9847 re-cords A review of titles and abstracts resulted in the se-lection of 336 records of original studies, among which...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2020, 02:40

... of bias summary Review authors’ judgements about each risk of bias item for each included study Green circle, low risk of bias; orange circle, high risk of bias; yellow circle, unclear risk of ... the dose of DEX ranged from 0.5 μg/ kg to a total of 150 μg Local anesthetic dosages also var-ied across the studies. Trang 4Risk‑of‑bias assessment of included studiesTwo independent reviewers ... reviewers (H Cai and P Feng) assessed the risk-of-bias of all included studies The vast majority of the studies had an unclear risk of bias due to the lack of sufficient methodological reporting Several...

Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2022, 22:20

... study design, including choice of animal models, age of animals, choice of anesthesia agent, dose, duration of exposure, and the choice of cognitive test and timing of assessment relative to anesthesia ... studies on the topic at the time of the meta-analysis in 2018 At this time, it would be premature to conclude superiority of one mode of anesthetic The effect of depth of anesthesia on cognitive impair-ment ... Propofol or Isoflur-ane The authors concluded that depth of anesthesia did not significantly impact risk of POCD [25] This conclu-sion was based on only 3 RCTs, and in one study the age of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2022, 01:15