Emergency Measurements
Mostrando 25-30 de 30 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Controlled trial evaluation of an asthma education programme for adults.
BACKGROUND--To improve asthma control and reduce readmission rates through increased knowledge and the development of self management skills, a brief (three hour) adult education programme was developed. METHODS--The course was designed to improve inhaler skills and to teach how to adjust drug doses according to peak flow (PEF) measurements and a treatment p
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26. A self management plan in the treatment of adult asthma.
To determine whether routine assessment of peak expiratory flow (PEF) in association with a self management plan based on inhaled corticosteroid use is effective in the management of chronic asthma, 36 consecutive adult patients with asthma attending an outpatient chest clinic were admitted to an open prospective study. Patients were treated with inhaled sal
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27. Abdominal aortic aneurysm in high-risk patients. Outcome of selective management based on size and expansion rate.
Low mortality rates for elective surgical treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms justify an aggressive approach in most patients. However, in high-risk patients with small aneurysms and no symptoms, the decision to operate remains a delicate balance of risk and benefit. Our observations include 99 high-risk patients with asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneury
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28. Antenatal screening: its use in assessing obstetric risk factors in Zimbabwe.
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the predictive utility of obstetric risk factors for identifying before the onset of labour those women at high risk of obstetric complications in a developing world setting, where home deliveries predominate and emergency transport is scarce. DESIGN--Risk factors derived from two population based, case-control studies (one of ceph
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29. Predicting the outcome in elderly patients of hospital admission for acute care in Paris, France: construction and initial validation of a simplex index.
OBJECTIVE: To develop a simple index able to identify at an early stage those elderly patients at high risk of requiring discharge to a residential or nursing home after admission to hospital for acute care. For these patients, early discharge planning might lead to a more effective management and reduce the length of hospitalisation. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PA
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30. Asthma and ambient air pollution in Helsinki.
OBJECTIVE: To study whether ambient air levels of sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), total suspended particulates (TSP), and ozone (O3) affect the number of hospital admissions for asthma. DESIGN: The associations between the daily number of admissions and air pollutants were analysed with Poisson regression, taking into account potential confoun