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May 30, 2022Open Access
Objective: This article aims to assess whether or not medical students from Louisiana State University School of Medicine-Shreveport supported the idea of adding ultrasound training into the current medical school curriculum, while also highlighting the current knowledge and confidence these medical students had when performing ultrasound-guided procedures. Materials and Method: After completing a trial of the SonoSim system, 28 fourth-year medical student volunteers were assessed for current co...
Nov 24, 2014Open Access
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) is one of the most air
polluted capital cities in the world, with ambient sulfide dioxide (SO 2)
and particulate matter PM 10 and PM 2.5 levels > 23 times
World Health Organization (WHO) standards in winter. Several studies have
examined the effects of air pollution on pregnancy, providing that exposure to
ambient air pollutants is associated with poor birth outcome, such as low birth
weight. Our study goal was to study the associations bet...
Nov 14, 2014Open Access
Neurofibromatosis (NF1) is an autosomal dominant disorder
primarily affecting the development and growth of nerve cell tissues. We report
a rare case of pregnancy with giant plexiform neurofibroma involving the genital
tract with adverse perinatal outcome. A 26-year-old female presented at term in
labour with NF1 and a huge plexiform neurofibroma arising from sacral region, gluteal
region, pelvis and involving left labium majus. She delivered by cesarean section
and the baby had congenital NF1. ...
Oct 30, 2014Open Access
The author discusses the conceptual bases related to
general and clinimetric properties of stroke scales, relating them to its
application in research and clinical practice. This paper briefly presents the
definitions of reliability and validity and its usage in clinical studies, and didactically
demonstrates statistical approaches for obtaining agreement and correlation coefficients.
Finally, it proposed to criticize the most common bias in the literature on the
use of these concepts and forwar...
Jul 11, 2014Open Access
Background: Decreasing glycosylated
hemoglobin (HbgA1c) is a primary diabetes treatment goal. Despite the
simplicity of the HbgA1c goal, failure to achieve this goal is a major
healthcare concern. Healthcare providers fail to adequately educate patients on
how to implement behavioral modifications needed for successful goal
achievement. Narrowed focused patient encounters, reliance on patient
self-education, denial, and delayed follow-up appointments lim ...
Jun 16, 2014Open Access
Background: At household levels drug may be hoarded and re-utilized inappropriately, shared within families and/or outside family and unnecessarily utilized in self-medication. Therefore this study was conducted to assess drug utilization at household level in Nekemte town and surrounding rural areas western Ethiopia. Methods: It was conducted on 844 households’ head through in-terviewing where households were stratified into urban and rural; a household was selected by using systematic random a...
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