Background: Family integrated care (FIC) encourages parental involvement in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) and has been found to promote weight gain in preterm infants. Extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) results from inadequate growth among very low birth weight infants (VLBWI), which has been found to contribute to parental anxiety. To address an existing gap in research, we aimed to examine the impact of parental involvement on EUGR at discharge in VLBWI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite previous studies suggesting that developmental care can provide benign stimulation to promote neural development of newborns, more evidence is needed regarding the other clinical benefits of developmental care.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of implementing developmental care on the length of hospital stay, the improvement of care practice in neonatal intensive care units, as well as the short-term outcome of very low birth weight infants.
Design: Cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Zhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi
August 2022
The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought great challenges to the traditional medical model. During the outbreak of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China, from March to May, 2022, there was a significant increase in the number of pediatric cases due to high transmissibility, immune escape, and vaccine breakthrough capacity of Omicron variants. The designated hospitals for children with COVID-19 served as a connecting link between children's specialized hospitals and mobile cabin hospitals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the protective effects of Zuogui Wan (ZGW) on bone loss induced by ovariectomy (OVX) and its mechanism via orexin-A and orexin receptors in the osteoporosis rat model.
Methods: Fifty Sprague-Dawley female rats were randomly divided into sham-operated (sham) group and four OVX subgroups. Rats subjected to sham and OVX were treated with the vehicle (OVX, 1 mL/100 g weight, n = 10), 17β-estradiol (E2, 50 μg*kg-1*d-1), and ZGW at the doses of 2.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu
January 2020
Objective: To compare the therapeutic effect of thunder-fire moxibustion combined with vibration training and simple vibration training on low back pain of primary osteoporosis by 's modulus of ultrasonic wave, and seek an objective evaluating method.
Methods: A total of 60 patients were randomized into an observation group and a control group, 30 cases in each one. The patients in the two groups were treated with vibration training using whole body vibration treatment bed.
Turk J Pediatr
November 2018
Yan YM, Gong M, Chen JL, Li D, Xu TT, Zou H, Li AQ, Fan QL, Lu QF. Incidence, risk factors and treatment outcomes of drug extravasation in pediatric patients in China. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 162-168.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi
November 2016
Objective To observe the prevention of Fangshuan Capsule (FC) on percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) induced myocardial damage and vascular endothelial injury in patients with un- stable angina pectoris (UAP). Methods Totally 100 UAP patients undergoing PCI were assigned to the control group and the treatment group by random digit table, 50 in each group. All patients received routine Western medicine therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze the effects of hyaluronidase and hirudoid treatment on drug extravasation in neonates.
Methods: The medical records of 13 neonates with drug extravasation treated with hyaluronidase and hirudoid between August 1(st), 2010 and May 1(st), 2012 were analyzed retrospectively. The treatment procedure for drug extravasation adhered to the protocol in neonatal department.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi
December 2005
Objective: To observe the outcome of hip fractures which accepted traction treatment instead of operation considering their general condition in elderly.
Methods: 102 cases of hip fractures accompanied by heart disease, hypertension, diabetes etc from Nov. 2000 to Jan.