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Neurological Complications Following Open Heart Surgery, Lavaun Ward Sutton

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The propose of this exploratory study was to gather data for analysis on possible predisposing or related factors in the development of neurological com plications following open heart surgery as well as to determine the scope and frequency of symptoms exhibited, indicative of cerebral damage. In addition, the researcher hoped to learn the outcome of these patients through information on the duration and resolution of symptoms, noting type and degree of residual problems as well as the incidence of mortality. A review of the literature provided background information for this study. This review indicated that although considerable attention has been …

Sex And The Transurethral Prostatectomy, Edward T. Moon

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this research was to find out what effects the TURP has on ejaculatory ability, frequency of coitus and the emission of seminal fluid. The sample consisted of 50 men, age 46-65, who were married, and had no cancer or other possible physical causes for impotence. Each man was personally interviewed.

Forty-six patients (92 percent) were able to ejaculate. A decrease in the frequency of coitus was reported by 40 per cent of the men. A normal ejaculation of seminal fluid was experienced by thirteen (26 percent) of the men. Considering all the changes in the sexual function …

Development Of A Positioning Device For Use In Conjunction With Panoral Radiography, Ray M. Hymer

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A cephalometric positioning device has been developed for use on the XRM Panorex X-Ray machine. Tests have demonstrated that the variability in producing serial radiographs with this device is comparable to, or less than, that currently accepted in conventional radiographic cephalometry.

Two procedures for obtaining serial radiographs were employed. Two patients were used for the first procedure and three patients were used in the second procedure.

In the first procedure each patient was positioned in the device and two radiographs were taken in sequence without disturbing the patient.

In the second procedure three clinic patients were used as subjects and …

Factors Which Deterred Twenty-Three Selected Patients From Utilizing Public Health Nursing Services, Lora Wood Welch

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A study was conducted to identify factors which deterred twenty-three selected epileptic patients from utilizing public health nursing services. The literature was reviewed in areas relating to factors which may contribute to or deter patients use of clinic or public health services.

The descriptive survey approach employing an interview guide was used. Data on the guide were classified in two areas: (1) personal characteristics and (2) participant responses. The participant responses were further categorized according to (1) perception of the public health department and public health nursing services, (2) perception of the needs of the epileptic patient and his parents, …

A Comparative Study Of Discomfort Experienced By Surgical Patients On Three Selected Postoperative Days, Lillian Barker Bartlett

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A descriptive survey was conducted to compare the discomfort experienced on three selected postoperative days to determine if there is one day identified by the patient as the most uncomfortable and to assess the symptoms of which he might complain. A checklist of twelve symptoms common to postsurgical patients was administered on the evenings of the second, third and fourth postoperative days by the researcher. Findings indicated that nineteen or 56 per cent of the thirty-four patients interviewed stated that the second day was most uncomfortable, nine or 27 per cent the third and six or 17 per cent the …

A Three-Year Survey Of Antimicrobial Agents, J. P. Truant

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Battered Child: A Review Of The Literature, Mary Patricia Rice

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Newsletter, Volume 09, Number 04, October 1964

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Research in Experimental surgery
• Ninth Clinical Conference – November 6 and 7, 1964
• Virologist Named Diplomate
• Students Participate in Summer Programs at M.D. Anderson Hospital
• Fort Worther Appointed to Board of Visitors
• New Staff
• Husband and Wife Volunteer
• Report on Cancer of the Female Genital Tract
• Medical Communications Authority Invited to British Conference
• MDAH Researchers Receive Grants
• Director and Surgeon-in-Chief receives Award
• Department of Biomathematics
• 1963-1964 Year Book of Cancer Published
• Staff Publications

Some Experiences And Comments About Bio-Medical Data Processing, W. R. Mccrum

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Abstracts

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Newsletter, Volume 09, Number 03, July 1964

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• MDAH Director receives Presidential Appointment
• New board of Visitors Members
• Virus Particles Found in Human Papilloma by MDAH Researchers
• Year Book of Cancer In Press
• Mike Hogg Lecture for 1964
• New Staff
• Grants Awarded to MDAH Researchers
• Signs of Progress
• Research Award to Radiotherapist
• Biomathematics and Computer Science Symposium
• New Teaching Aid
• Staff Publications
• Derrick Named President-Elect

The Relationship Of Central Venous Pressure To Hemorrhage In Open Heart Surgery, Mable Reynolds

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The problem of this study was to review 100 open heart surgical cases in a selected hospital to determine the changes occurring in central venous pressure in relation to blood loss.

The review of literature revealed that central venous pressure is an important factor in determining immediate postoperative care of open heart surgical patients. If central venous pressure falls below the normal range of 5 to 10 centimeters of water, hemorrhage is suspected. If central venous pressure is elevated between 15 and 20 centimeters of water, cardiac tamponade is suspected.

The descriptive survey method of research was used. Medical records …

Patients With Transistor Pacemakers : Their Problems In Adjusting To Daily Living, Miriam L. Moore

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

It was the purpose of this study to gain greater insights into the problems and needs of patients with artificial pacemakers. The problem was to find out in what ways the pacemaker affected the patients' manner of living and what problems they had had in adjusting to a new way of life.

The method of the study was the descriptive survey; an interview guide was the tool. Seven patients who had been electronically paced for periods of four weeks to two and one half years were interviewed in their homes. The ages of the three men and four women ranged …

A Cephalometric Evaluation Of The Navajo Indian, Robert L. Cole

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A random sampling of 54 Navajo Indians was examined and a selective group of 20 subjects presenting harmonious facial profiles and good occlusions were taken from this random sampling for specific comparison with Caucasian and other ethnic groups.

The methods used in this study are as follows: Plaster casts of Maxillary and Mandibular dental arches, profile photographs and lateral cephalometric X-rays. The cephalometric X-rays were traced in the standard manner on both Downs' and Riedel's analyses. The mean values for the Navajo group were compared with the mean values established for Caucasians by Downs and Riedel. The comparison was subjected …

Newsletter, Volume 09, Number 02, May 1964

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Funds Support Expansion Program
• MDAH and The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
• Noble Winner speaks
• New Electron Microscopes
• Visitors at MDAH
• Tumors of the Skin
• Grant Support MDAH Research and Education
• Eighteenth Annual Symposium
• Staff Publications
• MDAH Doctors on Television

A Prescription For The Alleviation Of Welfare Abuses And Illegitimacy, H. Curtis Wood Jr.

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Newsletter, Volume 09, Number 01, February 1964

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• 18th Annual Symposium Topic “Cellular Radiation Biology”
• A Child and A Clown
• Virologist Isolates Viruslike Particles In Human Blood Plasma
• MDAH Honors Its Volunteers
• One-Man Symposium
• Grants Support MDAH Research and Education
• Diagnostic Us
• Further Applications
• Foreign Cancer Authorities Visit MDAH
• New Book Off the Press
• 8th Annual Clinical Conference
• New Staff
• Computers and Investigators Team to Stimulate Research
• Staff Publications

The Effect Of Gymnastic Routines On Blood Pressure And Pulse Rate, Robert Ferguson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Editorial: Blood Platelets, John W. Rebuck

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Newsletter, Volume 08, Number 02, July 1963

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Order of Merit
• Betatron at MDAH
• Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston to be Established
• Seventeenth Annual Symposium
• MDAH Investigators receive research Awards
• Fellowship Winners
• Grants Aid Research and Education
• Scientific Presentations
• Staff Publications

A History Of Anesthesia, H. R. Mattern

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Fever Differences Following Cardiac Surgery, Cleta Phyllis Lane

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to find out whether the temperature level following heart and great vessel surgery is greater following the use of the heart-lung machine than those following closed heart surgery or cardiac and great vessel surgery with the use of hypothermia.

The method used was the descriptive survey. Data were obtained from medical records in one selected hospital. The desired number of charts was 50 for each of the three categories. The categories were identified by groups as follows:

Group I: patients having had cardiac surgery by a closed heart technique. All of the patients in …

A Study Of Postpartum Uterine Massage, Beverly Eugenia Blake

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference in the amount of postpartum bleeding between two methods of uterine massage and no uterine massage. The experimental method with parallel groups technique and a single variable was used. The criterion used in determining the amount of bleeding was the volume of red cells lost.

The study was conducted at St. Bernardine's Hospital using three experimental groups selected from one hundred and nineteen deliveries between January 25 and March 2, 1963. Group A was composed of sixteen patients whose uterus' were externally held for one hour …

A Study Of Patients With Recently Diagnosed Diabetes To Ascertain Extent Of Utilization Of Instruction, Ruth Yvonne Stafford

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This descriptive study was conducted to discover to what extent patients with diabetes utilized instruction received. If they did not, the reason why would be searched for. It was also hoped that area of instruction could be defined which needed greater emphasis while the patient was hospitalized at the time of diagnosis.

The interview with the aid of the interview guide was chosen as a data-gathering tool. The guide was complied and approve. Patients were selected from a review of medical records in the selected hospital, and their physicians contacted for permission to include their patient(s) in the study. The …

A Study To Ascertain Why A Selected Group Of Women Do Or Do Not Have Cervical Smear Cytologic Examinations For Cancer Detection, Jeanette Rudy Earnhardt

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

It was the purpose of this survey to find out the awareness of a selected group of Seventh-day Adventist women regarding the importance of cervical smear examinations in cancer detection; and to identify the need for health teaching in the prevention and control of uterine cervical cancer among women of this group. The 1715 women attending meetings at the General Conference Session in San Francisco July of 1962, who completed questionnaires were considered to be the participants in this study.

A review of literature revealed that through the use of yearly exfoliative cytology examinations, the approximately 14,000 annual deaths from …

A Comparative Study Of Two Contemporary Methods Of Cephalometric Analysis, Alden B. Chase

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A comparative cephalometric study was made of nineteen cases, fourteen of which were patients under treatment at the Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Loma Linda University. The remainder were individuals considered to have normal occlusions.

The review of the literature emphasized the plethora of analyses and the fact that cephalometry is a tool that must be mastered if the orthodontist is to give the best service. Thus the need for a study to compare the methods of analyzing the cephalograph. A study was made to compare two main methods of analysis and to determine whether or not the information …

Newsletter, Volume 08, Number 01, April 1963

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• New Board of Visitors Meets at MDAH
• Grants Aid Research and Education at MADH
• Biomathematics Study
• Book Review
• Expansion Plans
• Cancer Crusade Chairman Visits MDAH
• National and State Appointments
• Scientific Presentations
• First MDAH “Shoptalk”
• Staff Publications

Hepatosensitization Caused By Propionyl Erythromycin Lauryl Sulfate, R. Guevin, A. Ten Pas

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Treatment Of Peptic Ulcer With Enteric And Urinary Concentrates: A Review, Bernard M. Schuman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Newsletter, Volume 07, Number 03, December 1962

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Clinical Studies on Psoralen
• Research Appointment Announced
• Year Book of Cancer Published
• Symposium Chairman Appointed
• Symposium Program Announced
• Grants Support MDAH Research and Education
• Nuclear Medicine Authority Joins Staff
• Teaching Materials for Loan
• Russell Elected Vice-President
• Seventh Annual Clinical Conference
• New Staff
• Scientific Presentations
• Staff Publications