childern hospital

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to analyze patterns of maxillofacial fractures in children and adolescent in southeast of China,in a period of 10 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this retrospective study, the medical records of 162 hospitalized patients under 18 years old were analyzed in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Stomatology Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China. Age, gender, etiology, site, and type of fracture, monthly distribution, weekly distribution, dental complications, and treatment were evaluated...

OBJECTIVE: Review of contemporary knowledge about inherited metabolic disorders in pregnant women and fetuses. DESIGN: A review of literature. SETTING: Laboratory for inherited metabolic disorders, Departament of Clinical Biochemistry and Childern's Clinic, University Hospital and Palacky University, Olomouc. METHOD: Review of literature and publications using medical databases. CONCLUSION: Metabolic examination of mother or child is recommended if any clinical problems during or immediately after pregnancy occur...

The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard defines Radiology medical device interoperability and image data exchange between modalities, image databases - Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) - and image review end-points. However the scope of DICOM and PACS technology is currently limited to the trusted and static environment of the hospital. In order to meet the demand for ad-hoc tele-radiology and image guided medical procedures within the global healthcare enterprise, a new technology must provide mobility, security, flexible scale of operations, and rapid responsiveness for DICOM medical devices and subsequently medical image data...

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are the most common microorganisms isolated from blood cultures in childern, and determining whether there is true bacteremia or merely contamination is a clinical dilemma. A total of 67 episodes of CoNS-positive blood cultures in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units were evaluated during a 3-year period in order to find the possible risk factors involved and the antimicrobial susceptibility of CoNS isolates. In this study, 37 episodes were judged to be infections as opposed to 30 that were not...

Two controlled trials of the use of a biochemical profile were conducted in a childern's hospital to see whether the profile led to diagnoses which would not otherwise [have been made and to see what effect it had on the number of extra requests for pathololgical investigations and the length of stay in hospital]. Altogether 2816 children were examined and 13 new diagnoses made. There was a significant increases in the total number of pathorequests but the profile did not alter the length of stay in hospital...