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Compliance of the respiratory system as a predictor for successful extubation in very-low-birth-weight infants recovering from respiratory distress syndrome

Smith, J.; Pieper, C. H.; Maree, D.; Gie, R. P. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1999)

Objective. To develop additional criteria to predict for successful extubation of very-low-birth-weight infants recovering from respiratory distress syndrome. Design. Prospective study. Setting. Neonatal intensive care ...

Born too soon, too small, to die - a plea for a fair innings

Smith, J.; Pieper, C. H.; Kirsten, G. F. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1999)

[No abstract available]

Practical management of therapeutic diphenylhydantoin concentrations in children

Smit, A.; Schoeman, J. F.; Seifart, H. I.; Parkin, D. P. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1999)

Objective. Development of easy, practical methods for the management and optimisation of therapeutic diphenylhydantoin (DPH) concentrations in children. Design: Investigation of DPH concentration profiles and pharmacokinetic ...

Criteria for the notification of childhood tuberculosis in a high-incidence area of the Western Cape Province

Stoltz, A. P.; Donald, P. R.; Strebel, P. M.; Talent, J. M. T. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1990)

The medical records of 124 children notified from Ravensmead Clinic, Parow, as having tuberculosis during 1987 were reviewed in order to determine the strength of the evidence on which the diagnosis was made. Arranging the ...

Death from pneumonia in young children : time for action

Gie, R.; Klein, M.; Wesley, A. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1993)

Acute respiratory infections (ARls) are a leading cause of death in South African children.' Most of these deaths are from pneumonia and are potentially preventable, bur the necessary steps to address the problem have ...

Proposed Cochrane Collaboration for tuberculosis treatment

Donald, P. R. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1994)

During a meeting of interested persons held at the International Centre for Health Care Research of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, on 24 and 25 May of this year a decision was taken to initiate a Cochrane Collaboration ...

Failure to thrive and its relationship to serum vitamin A levels and diet

Donald, P. R.; Shires, J.; Langenhoven, M. L.; Van Staden, E.; Labadarios, D. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1995)

Serum vitamin A and retinol-binding protein (REP) levels were determined in a group of 34 children between 1 and 4 years of age with failure to thrive and in 34 age- and sex-matched controls. Both groups of children were ...

The effectiveness and cost of exogenous pulmonary surfactant replacement therapy

Smith, J.; Pieper, C.; Gie, R. P. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1995)

The articles"" recently published on surfactant replacement therapy (SR1) in the treatment of newborn infants with hyaline membrane disease (HMD) being ventilated in a country with limited health resources are both timeous ...

Progressive familial heart block type I : clinical and pathological observations

Van der Merwe, P.-L.; Rose, A. G.; Van der Walt, J. J.; Weymar, H. W.; Hunter, J. C.; Weich, H. F. H. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1991)

Progressive familial heart block type I (PFHB-I) is an autosomal inherited disease. It was previously postulated that the disease is limited to the cardiac conduction tissue. The presentation of a patient with dilated ...

A prospective study of long-term use of amikacin in a paediatrics department : indications, administration, side-effects, bacterial isolates and resistance

Hesseling, P. B.; Mouton, W. L.; Henning, P. A.; Kirsten, G. F.; Spruyt, L. L.; Schraader, E. B.; Wessels, G.; Grassman, R. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1990)

Amikacin (Amikin; B-M) was used as the only aminoglycoside for 18 months in a paediatric department within a general hospital because of high levels of resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and ...