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What's Happening: December 24, 1973, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: December 17, 1973, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Small Area Variations In Health Care Delivery, John E. Wennberg Md, Mph

Dartmouth Scholarship

Health information about total populations is a prerequisite for sound decision-making and planning in the health care field. Experience with a population-based health data system in Vermont reveals that there are wide variations in resource input, utilization of services, and expenditures among neighboring communities. Results show prima facie inequalities in the input of resources that are associated with income transfer from areas of lower expenditure to areas of higher expenditure. Variations in utilization indicate that there is considerable uncertainty about the effectiveness of different levels of aggregate, as well as specific kinds of, health services. Informed choices in the public …

What's Happening: December 10, 1973, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Right-Left Visual Field Performances Of Congenitally Deaf And Normal Hearing Subjects, Merle Applebaum-Rosenberg

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

The notion of cerebral dominance has been explored since the time of Broca. Two non-invasive techniques designed to assess hemispheric dominance have subsequently been developed. These two methods are commonly referred to as dichotic listening (simultaneous auditory stimulation) and rapid visual field stimulation (tachistoscopic viewing).

It has been found in dichotic listening studies that when verbal material is presented simultaneously to both ears, the stimuli are correctly identified most often in the right ear. Similar results have been found in tachistoscopic studies, with verbal material eliciting a right visual field advantage. Collectively, these findings have been used to support a …

A Comparison Of Aphasic And Non-Brain Injured Adults On A Dichotic Cv-Syllable Listening Task, Janet E. Shanks

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Normal listeners traditionally show a right ear preference for dichotically presented speech stimuli, and a left ear preference for dichotically presented non-speech stimuli. Although some inter-subject variability is observed within and between groups of non-brain damaged subjects, the performance of the group as a whole is rather predictable and homogeneous. However, results from experiments in which brain damaged subjects have been studied have been less straightforward. Although left brain damaged subjects have consistently shown a bilateral deficit in reporting dichotic speech stimuli, a great deal of variability in performance is observed within the groups. Further study of brain damaged individuals, …

What's Happening: December 3, 1973, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

The Southwestern Pharmacist Vol. 4, No. 2, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern Pharmacist

October has come and gone. Homecoming was the sixth. By the time this issue of “ The Southwestern Pharmacist” is put together, printed, mailed, and in your hands, Thanksgiving Day, 1973, will be close at hand.

Electrical Alternans In Cardiac Tamponade, Andreas P. Niarchos

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Of nine patients with pericardial effusion due to various causes, four developed cardiac tamponade. Electrical alternans was present In all four, being total in three, and ventricular in one. From the diagnostic point of view, the alternans corresponded with the clinical diagnosis of cardiac tamponade and the radiological signs of a large pericardial effusion. The pericardial fluid was hemorrhagic in three patients and transudate (hydropericardium) in the fourth. In two patients alternans was present with heart rates below 100 per minute. Apart from the exact (1:1) type of electrical alternans, three new types are described; a 2:1, 3:1 and a …

The Effectiveness Of Oxandrolone In Promoting Linear Growth In Growth Hormone Deficient Children, Charles B. Wolf, Raymond C. Mellinger, Lewis B. Morrow, M. Saeed-Uz Zafar

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

This two-year study consisted of a comparison of oxandrolone and growth hormone for the treatment of five children with documented growth hormone deficiency. Previously, androgens have been reported to be relatively ineffective in accelerating linear growth In growth hormone deficient children. Oxandrolone was administered for one year. Growth hormone was added in the second six months and then was given as a single agent in the third six months. Growth accelerated markedly in all patients. Only one child showed more rapid growth with the addition of growth hormone while two children actually grew more rapidly under the Influence of oxandrolone …

Blood Pressure In Hypertension, Lawrence H. Warbasse Jr.

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Publications Of The Staff Of The Henry Ford Hospital And The Edsel B. Ford Institute For Medical Research

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Chlorophyll Levels And Leaf Chlorplast Ultrastructure As Ecotypic Characters In Xanthium Strumarium L., Farag Abdulrahman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The major objective of the work was to clarify some of the adaptive mechanisms that a common widespread species would show as a possible requirement for survival in its natural habitats. Analysis of various populations of Xanthium (cocklebur) indicated differences in chlorophyll levels and leaf chloroplasts ultrastructure between populations. The study also revealed some insight into intrapopulational variation in dark requirements for flowering of selected populations. In addition, caloric values of dried leaf material of cocklebur were analyzed for interpopulational differences. It was evident that higher chlorophyll levels are correlated with increase in latitude of origin and a corresponding decrease …

Ariel - Volume 6 Number 2, Jim Burke, Halley S. Faust, J.D. Kanofsky, Sandy Wolf, Janet Bernstein, Liz Thile, Mike Treat, Tim Heffron, Robert Brent, Gary Kaskey, Curt Cummings, Paul Poinsard, Gary Emmett

Ariel

Editors

Mark Dembert

J.D. Kanofsky

Frank Chervenak

John Lammie

Curt Cummings

Entertainment

Robert Breckenridge

Joe Conti

Gary Kaskey

Photographer

Larry Glazerman

Overseas Editor

Mike Sinason

Humorist

Jim McCann

Staff

Ken Jaffe

Bob Skarloff

Halley Faust

Jim Burke

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Oral Panendoscopic Evaluations Of Velopharyngeal Physiology And Perceived Listener Judgments Of Hypernasality, Earl J. Seaver

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Efficacy Of Betaprone With Ultraviolet Irradiation On Hepatitis B Antigen In Human Plasma Pools (A Retrospective Study), Gerald A. Logrippo, Hajime Hayashi

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In a retrospective study, hepatitis B antigen (HB Ag) was found in 14 lots of human plasma pools (16-20 liters each) that had been treated by the combined Betaprone (BPL) with ultraviolet (UV) irradiation procedure. No evidence of clinical hepatitis was found during a six-month follow-up after 185.2 liters of HB Ag positive plasma were Infused into 257 patients. Since HB Ag positive blood products treated by BPL with UV produced no clinical hepatitis, it is evident that our treatment is efficacious against hepatitis virus agents.

Surgical Treatment Of Liver Trauma: Technical Considerations And Case Reports, C. Grodsinsky, T. A. Fox Jr., B. E. Brush

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The incidence of abdominal trauma, and thus that of liver trauma, has been increasing in the past few years. Improvements in the understanding of the anatomy of the liver and improvements in diagnostic techniques have resulted in shorter and better operations with less delay between injury and surgery. Improvements in transportation to adequate hospital facilities and vigorous resuscitative measures have also contributed to lowering the mortality rate for this type of injury. Suggestions are made for the surgical management of liver injuries, together with illustrative case reports.

Near Basal Blood Pressure: A Method Applicable To Clinical Practice, John R. Caldwell

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A method is described for determining near basal blood pressure (NBBP) measurements that is applicable to outpatient clinic or office use in daily practice. In our clinic, patients' mean casual pressure was significantly higher than the NBBP, the difference being 40 mm Hg systolic (p < .001) and 18 mm Hg diastolic (p < .001). In hospitalized patients the casual blood pressure was higher than the fourth to sixth day hospital average, and the hospital average was higher than NBBP. The difference between the last two was 15 mm Hg systolic (p <. 005) and 9 mm Hg diastolic (p < .005). In patients recording blood pressure readings at home the average weekly home-recorded blood pressure was not significantly different from NBBP during the same week, -1 mm Hg systolic (p > .80) and 4 mm Hg diastolic (p > .10). NBBP by this method offers a practical way to estimate the average daily blood pressure.

Back Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The First Annual Convention Of The Rehabilitation Association, The Republic Of China-Comparative Study In The Management Of Frozen Shoulder, Hsi-Cheng Liang, I-Nan Lien

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Dental Hygiene Information And Consequation On Plaque Control, Janel R. Warner

Masters Theses

The research described in the present paper is based upon a parsimonious analysis of behavior which utilizes principles that have been empirically determined. These principles as discussed by Ullmann and Krasner (1966) and Ulrich, Stachnik, and Mabry (1966) have suggested the wide applicability of behavior modification techniques, not only with animals, but with human subjects in diverse settings. One setting that has previously been left unexplored by proponents of behavior modification, which promises to be an area of growing concern, is that of dental hygiene.

The problem that the present study concerns itself with is educating children in the· correct …

Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 05, December 1973

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• 25th Year of Publication For The Cancer Bulletin
• Third Edition of The Book of Health Now Off Press
• New Staff
• Part of National Cancer Program Plan Presented To President Nixon
• George Elected President
• Clinical Abstracts
• Dial Access To Include 16 States, D.C.

Depression In Elderly Men Following Transurethral Prostatectom, Brenda Leach Allocco

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study was concerned with the problem of depression among elderly patients following surgery. The purpose of the study was to find out if older men following transurethral prostatectomy experienced a higher level of depression than normal elderly people in the general population. An attempt was made in the study to suggest factors in the patients' illness or environment which may have influenced the amount of depression they experienced.

Thirty patients, sixty-five years or older, were included in the study sample. Depression was measured by a self-rating depression scale (Zung) three weeks following their operations. Other facts about the patients …

The Effects Of Dental Hygiene Information And Consequation On Plaque Control, Janel R. Walker

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Merits And Demerits Of The Water Buffalo As Domestic Farm Livetock, Vis-A-Vis Cattle, Peerasak Charetaraprateep

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The buffalo (Bubalus bvbalis) be- longs to the bovidae family, and has been domesticated in India, Malasia, Thailand and Egypt for a long time. It occupies an important place amongst the domestic animals of the tropics as a provider of dairy produce, beef and draught power. Its greastest asset as a domestic animal is its ability to subsist on the coarsest fodder and to convert it most efficiently into animal produce. In distribution the domestic buffalo ranges widely from Italy in the west through the Balkans, Egypt and the Near East to India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma. The region where …

ข่าวพิเศษ, N/A

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

รายชื่อสมาชิกเวชชสารสัตวแพทย์ ประจำปี 2518, N/A

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

Plaque Formation Of Tembusu Virus In Llc-Mk2 Cells, Watana Wa Tanawijarn

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Propagation of Tembusu virus was studied in LLC-MK2 cell culture. This culture supported the multiplilication of the virus but showed no CPE after infection (20 days observation). The virus formed clear plagues in LLC-MK2 cells when concentration of glutamine and amino acids were reduced. Vitamins were required for increasing numbers of plaques. The LD50 in suckling mice by intracerebral inoculation was equal to 0.6 PFU on the basis of plaque assay in MK2 cells. Study of effect of various concentrations of serum in the first overlay media on plaque formation showed that plaque formation in MK2 cells was best in …

Study Of Pathological Changes In Ducks Fed High Levels Of Rapeseed Oil, Containing High And Low Levels Of Erucic Acid, And Soybean Oil., Cherdchai Ratanasethakul

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

High dietary levels of rapeseed oil containing high and low erucic acid and soybean oil were fed to ducks from one day of age through the early growing period. Clinical signs and mortality, hematology, gross and histopathologic changes were studied. The fallowing results were obtained : 1. Fatty infiltration occurred in the heart, skeletal muscles, spleen and kidney in ducks fed the high erucic acid rapeseed oil ration. It also occurred to a lesser extent with the other unsaturated oil rations. 2. The clinical signs of the ducks which were fed the high erucic acid rapeseed oil ration and which …