The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of abdominal massage on feeding tolerance in stable preterm infants fed minimal enteral nutrition.
The study was conducted on a control-grouped ...pre-test, post-test quasi-experimental design at the neonatal intensive care unit of a university hospital in Turkey between March and July 2012. Abdominal massage was applied to the massage group subjects for 15 minutes, 2 times daily, before the subject was fed starting in the 5-day study period.
The study was conducted with 27 subjects, 14 in the massage group and 13 in the control group. When frequency of defecation measurements were analysed, the difference between the first day and last day of the study was not statistically significant in the massage group. However, when daily weight gain, frequency of vomiting, abdominal circumference and gastric residual volume excess measurements were analysed, the differences between the first day and last day of the study were statistically significant in the massage group.
In accordance with the results of the study, we suggest that nurses should apply abdominal massage twice a day as an intervention helping to prevent gastric residual volume excess and abdominal distension in enterally fed preterm infants.
This volume collects a series of lectures presented at the tenth ESI School held at Archamps (FR) in November 2007 and dedicated to radiotherapy and brachytherapy. The lectures focus on the multiple ...facets of radiotherapy in general, including external radiotherapy (often called teletherapy) as well as internal radiotherapy (called brachytherapy). Radiotherapy strategy and dose management as well as the decisive role of digital imaging in the associated clinical practice are developed in several articles. Grouped under the discipline of Conformal Radiotherapy (CRT), numerous modern techniques, from Multi-Leaf Collimators (MLC) to Intensity Modulated RadioTherapy (IMRT), are explained in detail. The importance of treatment planning based upon patient data from digital imaging (Computed Tomography) is also underlined. Finally, despite the quasi- totality of patients being presently treated with gamma and X-rays, novel powerful tools are emerging using proton and light ions (like carbon ions) beams, bound to become more and more important in patient treatment. These technological developments, going under the comprehensive name of "Hadrontherapy", are presented here with special focus on the rational and state of the art of the field. All topics are presented with didactical language and styles, making this book an appropriate reference for students and professionals seeking a comprehensive introduction to the field as well as a reliable outlook on the most recent developments.
Shortwave diathermy results in thermal and possibly athermal effects in the tissues.
The international organisations concerned with the safe use of non-ionising radiation have derived reference field ...strengths to provide limiting exposure fields.
Electromagnetic field strengths from shortwave diathermy equipment were measured in six physiotherapy departments.
Values above the reference level were detected up to one metre from electrodes and cables when shortwave equipment was used in the continuous mode.
This confirms previous reports concerning significant field strengths from diathermy equipment and calls for proper use and handling of diathermy equipment by physiotherapists.
Standard official measures of household economic well-being in several countries are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are limited because they ignore certain crucial ...determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants—household wealth and public consumption—in the context of the US. Our findings suggest that the level and distribution of economic well-being is substantially altered when money income is adjusted for wealth or public consumption. Over the 1989–2000 period, median well-being appears to increase faster when these adjustments are made than when standard money income is used. Adding imputed rent and annuity from household wealth to household income increases measured inequality, while adding public consumption reduces it. However, all three measures show about the same rise in inequality over the period.
A set of microstrip gas chamber (MSGC) prototypes, developed for the barrel Tracking Detector of the CMS experiment at LHC, has been tested in a beam. The chambers were 10cm long, with Pestov or ...diamond coated glass substrate. The results on the performance of the chambers are reported. The spatial uniformity of the chambers is also illustrated.
Test of a CMS MSGC tracker prototype in a high-intensity hadron beam Abbaneo, D.; Albert, E.; Angelini, F. ...
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A set of CMS MicroStrip Gas Chambers (MSGC) was exposed to a high-intensity 3GeV/c pion beam at a CERN PS facility for a period of two weeks. The performance of the detectors is reported in terms of ...stability of efficiency and response to minimum ionising particles as well as to more heavily ionising fragments generated by nuclear interactions.
A 10/spl times/10 cm/sup 2/ MicroGap Chamber with a small stereo angle read-out has been developed for the inner tracking system of CMS. The anode strips are 9 /spl mu/m wide with a pitch of 200 /spl ...mu/m. The sampling pitch of the back cathode is 400 /spl mu/m at a stereo angle of 50 mrad. Both coordinates are read-out from the same side of the detector substrate. Measurements of gain stability, fraction of induced charge on the back electrode, uniformity of response along the strip and rate capability have been performed in laboratory, using X-ray sources. Detection efficiency, spatial resolution, charge and space correlation have been measured with minimum ionizing particle beams at CERN.
The book introduces the fundamental aspects of digital imaging and covers four main themes: - Ultrasound techniques and imaging applications, - Magnetic resonance and MPJ in hospital, - Digital ...imaging with X-rays - Emission tomography (PET and SPECT).Each of these topics is developed by analysing the underlying physics principles and their implementation, quality and safety aspects, clinical performance and recent advancements in the field. Some issues specific to the individual techniques are also treated, e.g. choice of radioisotopes or contrast agents, optimisation of data acquisition and storage, readout electronics, modelling and computer algorithms for imaging and measurement in ultrasounds and tomography applications. All topics are presented with didactical language and style, making this book an appropriate reference for students and professionals seeking a comprehensive introduction to the field as well as a reliable outlook on the most recent developments.
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