Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Systematic Review Protocol Examining The Effect Of Prefeeding Oromotor Stimulation On Preterm Neonate’S Feeding Outcomes, Suvarshi Sasmal, Asha P. Shetty

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Introduction: Feeding difficulty is a common problem among preterm babies as sucking-swallowing and breathing coordination matures by 32-34 weeks of postmenstrual age. There is a growing consensus among healthcare providers worldwide that oromotor stimulation influences feeding outcomes of preterm babies, but limited evidence influences its clinical applicability. Objectives: To critically appraise the available evidence on the effect of prefeeding oromotor stimulation (OMS) on preterm neonate’s feeding outcomes. Methods and analysis: This review will include only randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Electronic databases will be searched from January 2000 to December 2019. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines (PRISMA) …

Patient Satisfaction Towards Nursing Care In General Wards Of Tertiary Care Hospital Of Eastern India, Nanda Kumar Paniyadi, Asha P. Shetty

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Patient satisfaction is one of the elements of determining the care provided as a desirable outcome of clinical care in the hospital. A patient’s expression of the care received is considered an important indicator regarding the quality of hospital care in all of its aspects. Indian nurses need to be aware of the importance of patient satisfaction and their role in providing need-based care. Objective: To identify patient satisfaction towards nursing care. Methods: A descriptive study design with a stratified sampling technique was used. The data was collected from 350 patients aged between 18-65 years at general wards of tertiary …

The Satisfaction Of Nursing Care Among Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Cross-Sectional Study, Sivakami S, Kanitha D

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Nursing services are considered as one of the most important components of hospital services. Quality nursing care adds to the overall satisfaction of patient hospitalization experience. Patient satisfaction is one of the indicators in determining the quality of care in healthcare settings. Objectives: To assess the level of satisfaction on nursing care among traumatic brain injury patients and associate the level of satisfaction on nursing care with their sociodemographic variable. Method: A descriptive research design was adopted to study the satisfaction of nursing care among traumatic brain injury patients in a selected setting. A non-probability convenience sampling technique was used …

A Simple Effective Method For Frailty In Heart Failure With Impact On Clinical Outcomes In North Indian Population, Gurbhej Singh, Rohit Tandon, Neelesh C. Pandey, Namita Bansal, Abhishek Goyal, Bhupinder Singh, Shibba Takkar Chhabra, Naved Aslam, Gurpreet Singh Wander, Bishav Mohan

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Introduction and Objectives: Frailty has been studied extensively in elderly population as a predictor and prognostic marker for morbidity and mortality. Frailty is being increasingly recognised as a distinct pathophysiological condition which plays a major role in outcomes of various disease states including heart failure. Our aim was to study the prevalence of frailty in heart failure and see its prognostic significance in such patients. Methods: This was a prospective study conducted in an out-patient HF clinic. All consecutive patients with HF, > 25 years age, with LVEF < 40 % were included. All patients were asked a simple frailty questionnaire. Hand-dynamometer was used to assess handgrip strength in kilograms and were classified as frail, pre-frail or non-frail. The primary end point was cardiovascular mortality and hospitalization, and secondary end-point was composite of all cause mortality, hospitalization,device implantation and documented arrythmia. Results: 210 patients were studied for clinical outcomes.Mean age was 60.59+ 11.55 years with 15 % patients aged less than 50 years. Mean LVEF was 30.24+ 6.8%. Handgrip strength was poor in the frail vs non/pre-frail patients (p=0.001) with a strength >16.95 kg having sensitivity of 72% and specificity of 63% for the prediction …

Carcinoma Cervix And Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Control Study Among Women Seeking Health Care In Tertiary Hospitals Of South India., Mahima Advaitha

Faculty work

No abstract provided.

Perception Of Empathy Among Medical Students: A Cross Sectiona Study, Pratik Chatterjee

Faculty work

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Cyclic Fatigue And Bending Resistance Of Coronal Preflaring Niti File Manufactured With Different Heat Treatments, Soram Oh, Su Young Moon, Antonis Chaniotis, Eugenio Pedullá, Adel Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Fawzi Ali Al-Ghamdi, Ayman Omar Mandorah, Hiran Perinpanayagam, Kee Yeon Kum, Ove A. Peters, Seok Woo Chang

Dentistry Publications

Coronal preflaring NiTi files should possess proper hardness, resistance to fracture and flexibility. This study compared the bending resistance and cyclic fatigue resistance of three orifice preflaring NiTi files. HyFlex EDM Orifice opener (#25/12), HyFlex CM (#25/08) and One Flare (#25/09) were tested (n = 46/instrument). Bending resistance was assessed with the stress when perpendicular displacement was applied to a 3 mm point from the file tip, and was performed at either room temperature (RT, n = 10) or body temperature (BT, n = 10). Cyclic fatigue resistance was tested with an artificial ceramic root canal at RT (n = …

The Emergency Medicine Physician Workforce: Projections For 2030., Catherine A Marco, D Mark Courtney, Louis J Ling, Edward Salsberg, Earl J Reisdorff, Fiona E Gallahue, Robert E Suter, Robert Muelleman, Bradley Chappell, Dian Dowling Evans, Nathan Vafaie, Chelsea Richwine

Health Sciences Education Research

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The goals of this study were to determine the current and projected supply in 2030 of contributors to emergency care, including emergency residency-trained and board-certified physicians, other physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. In addition, this study was designed to determine the current and projected demand for residency-trained, board-certified emergency physicians.

METHODS: To forecast future workforce supply and demand, sources of existing data were used, assumptions based on past and potential future trends were determined, and a sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine how the final forecast would be subject to variance in the baseline inputs and assumptions. …

Post Tuberculosis Radiological Sequelae In Patients Treated For Pulmonary And Pleural Tuberculosis At A Tertiary Center In Pakistan, Syed Muhammad Zubair, Mariyam Gohar Ali, Muhammad Irfan

Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care

Treating tuberculosis (TB) is not the end of the disease because of the wide spectrum of post TB sequelae associated with the disease. There is insufficient data on post TB radiological sequelae. The aim of this study is to evaluate the post TB radiological sequelae on chest x-rays in patients who had completed the treatment for pulmonary and pleural TB at a tertiary care hospital of a high TB burden country. This is a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted on patients treated for pulmonary and pleural TB. Adult patients (18 years or above) with a clinical or microbiological diagnosis of pulmonary …

Level Of Utilization And Provider-Related Barriers To The Use Of Hydroxyurea In The Treatment Of Sickle Cell Disease Patients In Jos, North-Central Nigeria, Akinyemi O.D. Ofakunrin, Edache S. Okpe, Tolulope O. Afolaranmi, Rasaq Olaosebikan, Patience U. Kanhu, Kehinde Adekola, Nantok Dami, Atiene S. Sagay

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers

Background: Hydroxyurea is underutilized by sickle cell health-care providers in Nigeria despite available evidence of its effectiveness in reducing the manifestations and complications of sickle cell disease (SCD).

Objectives: To assess the level of utilization and provider-related barriers to the use of hydroxyurea in SCD therapy in Jos, Nigeria.

Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted among 132 medical doctors providing care for SCD patients. Data on so- cio-demographics, utilization and barriers to hydroxyurea use were obtained. The barriers were fed cumulatively into the logistic regression model as predictors of utilization.

Results: Of the 132 care providers, 88 (67%) had been in …

Week Of August 2, 2021, New York Medical College

InTouch

• NYMC Selected to Assist NYS in the Identification of COVID-19 Variants
• NYMC Welcomes SOM Class of 2025 During Transition Week
• Robin Hershkowitz, LCSW-R, Is Named Director of the Office of Student Mental Health and Wellness
• NYMC and TCUS Host 13th COVID-19 Symposium
• D.P.T. Student Pursues Fifth Degree and Dream of Helping Others

Insights Into The Mechanisms Of Brain Endothelial Erythrophagocytosis, Jiahong Sun, Prema Vyas, Samar Mann, Annlia Paganini-Hill, Ane C. F. Nunes, Wei Ling Lau, David H. Cribbs, Mark J. Fisher, Rachita K. Sumbria

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

The endothelial cells which form the inner cellular lining of the vasculature can act as non-professional phagocytes to ingest and remove emboli and aged/injured red blood cells (RBCs) from circulation. We previously demonstrated an erythrophagocytic phenotype of the brain endothelium for oxidatively stressed RBCs with subsequent migration of iron-rich RBCs and RBC degradation products across the brain endothelium in vivo and in vitro, in the absence of brain endothelium disruption. However, the mechanisms contributing to brain endothelial erythrophagocytosis are not well defined, and herein we elucidate the cellular mechanisms underlying brain endothelial erythrophagocytosis. Murine brain microvascular endothelial cells (bEnd.3 …

Barriers To Voting And Access To Health Insurance Among Us Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study, Roman Pabayo, Sze Yan Liu, Erin Grinshteyn, Daniel M. Cook, Peter Muennig

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

Background: Many states in the United States (US) have introduced barriers to impede voting among individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged groups. This may reduce representation thereby decreasing access to lifesaving goods, such as health insurance. Methods: We used cross-sectional data from 242,727 adults in the 50 states and District of Columbia participating in the US 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). To quantify access to voting, the Cost of Voting Index (COVI), a global measure of barriers to voting within a state during a US election was used. Multilevel modeling was used to determine whether barriers to voting were associated …

Interactive Machine Learning-Based Multi-Label Segmentation Of Solid Tumors And Organs, Dimitrios Bounias, Ashish Singh, Spyridon Bakas, Sarthak Pati, Saima Rathore, Hamed Akbari, Michel Bilello, Benjamin Greenberger, Joseph Lombardo, Rhea Chitalia, Nariman Jahani, Aimilia Gastounioti, Michelle Hershman, Leonid Roshkovan, Sharyn Katz, Bardia Yousefi, Carolyn Lou, Amber Simpson, Richard Do, Russell Shinohara, Despina Kontos, Konstantina Nikita, Christos Davatzikos

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

We seek the development and evaluation of a fast, accurate, and consistent method for general-purpose segmentation, based on interactive machine learning (IML). To validate our method, we identified retrospective cohorts of 20 brain, 50 breast, and 50 lung cancer patients, as well as 20 spleen scans, with corresponding ground truth annotations. Utilizing very brief user training annotations and the adaptive geodesic distance transform, an ensemble of SVMs is trained, providing a patient-specific model applied to the whole image. Two experts segmented each cohort twice with our method and twice manually. The IML method was faster than manual annotation by 53.1% …

Assessing Knowledge In The Classroom Setting: It's More Than Just A Test, Jessica A. Conlin, Rachel Bareltta-Scarcella

Department of Education

No abstract provided.

Rsv-Induced Guillain–Barré Syndrome, Priyanga Jayakumar, Christe Shen, Dylan Goldsmith, Steven Lippmann

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

A patient with respiratory syncytial virus-induced Guillain–Barré Syndrome and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is presented. This virus is the most common cause of upper respiratory infections, and it can become an etiology for extra-pulmonary pathology with serious complications. Such a case is rare, but the possibility of adverse comorbidities makes early diagnosis and treatment important.

Author Correction: Evaluation Of Usage-Induced Degradation Of Different Endodontic File Systems (Scientific Reports, (2021), 11, 1, (9027), 10.1038/S41598-021-88570-4), Shekhar Bhatia, Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu, Ove A. Peters, Amr Fawzy, Umer Daood

Pacific Faculty Work

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Implementation Of The National Early Warning Score Tool In The Acute Care Setting, Amanda Reyes

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: The organization arbitrarily called a rapid response or code blue call based on abnormal vital signs or intuition and needed a new process to identify early recognition of patient deterioration.

PICOT: For adult inpatients in an acute care setting in a large healthcare system (P), will implementation of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across the organization (I) compared to data from the last fiscal year where NEWS was not used (C) decrease code blue calls (O) within 8-weeks (T)?

Evidence: Eleven high quality studies met the inclusion criteria and found that the NEWS is a validated …

Das181 Treatment Of Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Parainfluenza Virus Infection In Immunocompromised Patients: A Phase 2 Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study, Roy F Chemaly, Francisco M Marty, Cameron R Wolfe, Steven J Lawrence, Sanjeet Dadwal, Rosemary Soave, Jason Farthing, Stephen Hawley, Paul Montanez, Jimmy Hwang, Jennifer Hui-Chun Ho, Stanley Lewis, George Wang, Michael Boeckh

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: There are no antiviral therapies for parainfluenza virus (PIV) infections. DAS181, a sialidase fusion protein, has demonstrated activity in in vitro and in animal models of PIV.

METHODS: Adult immunocompromised patients diagnosed with PIV lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) who required oxygen supplementation were randomized 2:1 to nebulized DAS181 (4.5 mg/day) or matching placebo for up to 10 days. Randomization was stratified by need for mechanical ventilation (MV) or supplemental oxygen (SO). The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients reaching clinical stability survival (CSS) defined as returning to room air (RTRA), normalization of vital signs for at least …

Application Of The Kinesio® Taping Method For A Child With Hypotonia: A Pilot Case Study, Margaret M. Griffin, Christina Ann A. Mcguff, Nicole C. Willse, Mackenzie D. Twaddell, Julia Shin

Student Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: This study explored the application of the Kinesio® Taping (KT®) method in conjunction with traditional occupational therapy (OT) intervention for a child with hypotonia. Specifically, differences in functional hand outcomes (manual dexterity and grasp pattern) were examined between the sessions with and without the application of the KT® method.

Methods: A 9-year and 5-month-old male subject, at the time of enrollment, diagnosed with hypotonia, global developmental delay, and autism spectrum disorder participated in the study. A single-subject alternating treatment design was employed. A total of 14 OT sessions were conducted across baseline (n=3), alternating treatment (n=8), and replication (n=3) …

Use Of Smartphone Technology To Promote Knowledge Of Home Safety, Bonnie L. Rogulj

Physical Therapy Collection

This brief article describes the use of smartphone panoramic 360-degree imaging technology to educate patients on home safety. By positioning "hot spots" on images of the home environment, a visual tool for patient education was created to illustrate safety hazards in the home.

Sleep Disparities During The Covid-19 Pandemic An Investigation Of Aian, Asian, Black, Latinx And White Young Adults, Tiffany Yip, Ye Feng, Jillianne Fowle, Celia B. Fisher

Covid-19 Digital Research

Objectives: This study investigates race-related disparities in sleep duration and quality among diverse young adults during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Design & setting: Online cross-sectional study of young adults in the United States in April 2020.Participants:About 547 American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN), Asian, Black, Latinx, and White young adults ages 18-25 years.

Measurements: Participants completed measures of sleep duration and quality, coronavirus victimization dis-tress, depression, age, sex/gender, employment status, essential worker status, student status, residential region, socioeconomic status, concerns about contracting coronavirus and CDC health risks.

Results: Black young adults reported the largest disparity in sleep duration and quality. For …

Evaluation And Implementation Of A Video Intervention To Increase Adherence In A Rural Phase Ii Cardiac Rehabilitation Program., Holly Yahyawi

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: In the U.S., heart disease affects over 30 million adults and is the leading cause of death. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) decreases cardiac hospital readmissions, decreases the risk of additional cardiac events, and increases life expectancy. Environment: This project was implemented at a CR program which serves rural Indiana and Kentucky counties. Purpose: This QI project uses a Plan-Study-Do-Act framework to evaluate patient adherence to a rural CR program, implement a video intervention for patients, and measure patient’s perceptions. Procedures: CR patients watched four videos describing what CR is, what to expect at CR, CR benefits, and a patient CR …

Correlation Of Hepatic Transaminases With Cortisol Levels In Type 2 Diabetes, Sujina S

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Association Of D-Dimer With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Indices In Covid-19 – A Hospital Based Study, Abhilash Sharma

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of D-Dimer Level And Inflammatory Markers In Covid-19 Patients With Diabetes Mellitus And Without Diabetes Mellitus, Aditi Sharma

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Analytical Correlation Of Laboratory Tests With Clinical Findings In Cases Of Paraproteinemia, Emilin Zacharias

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Comparing The Efficacy Of Usg Guided Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block With Or Without Intercostobrachial Nerve Block For Forearm Surgeries – An Observational Study, Diksha D’Mello

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Dialectical Behavior Therapy On Body Modification In Borderline Personality Disorder, Tyler Godek

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Borderline Personality Disorder is a mood disorder characterized by emotional dysregulation, increased impulsivity, and increased self-harm. Recently, a positive correlation has been made relating number of body modifications (such as piercings, tattoos, and scarification) and severity of disease. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is the first-line treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and has been found to significantly reduce engagement in another form of self-harming behavior (non-suicidal self-injury). However, the effects of Dialectical Behavior Therapy on body modification are not understood. In this randomized control study, we will compare the effects of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, pharmacotherapy, or non-treatment on the number of body …

Mental Preparation For The Post-Covid World, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Embracing unpredictability will be key in navigating the new normal. Knowing what your employees are innately good at will help your organisation excel