Daar bestaan heelwat verwarring oor die kriteria wat op professionele status toegepas word sow el as oor die korrekte gebruik van die woord “ professie” o f “ beroep” . Dit het onsekerheid by verpleegsters veroorsaak waarvoor daar sow el in Suid-A frika as in ander lande geen grond bestaan nie. Yerpleging word alte dikwels volgens die tradisionele beeld van vroeére professioneles b eoord eel va...

In an attempt to identify those infants with resolving chronic lung disease of prematurity (CLD) at greatest risk of sudden infant death syndrome or acute life threatening event (SIDS/ALTE), or readmission to hospital following discharge, recordings of arterial oxygen saturation were made on 35 infants. Recordings were collected while the infants were breathing room air. Movement artefact was e...

Welcome to issue 34 of Research Notes, our quarterly publication reporting on matters relating to research, test development and validation within Cambridge ESOL. This issue is the first of two issues that continue the theme of the ALTE 2008 conference that Cambridge Assessment hosted in April. This event focused on the social and educational impact of language assessment and involved hundreds ...

reflux McGovern and Smith have embarked on the welcome development of an evidence based algorithm for the investigation of infants presenting with an apparent life threatening event (ALTE). Unfortunately, they do not distinguish between coincidence and causality. Recurrent vomiting occurs in over 60% of 4 month old babies, and it is therefore unsurprising that gastro-oesophageal reflux is commo...

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and heavy snoring during sleep, without sleep apnea, has been well described in children and adults. We report a case series of 25 full-term infants, prospectively obtained from a database of nearly 700 "apparent life-threatening event" (ALTE) cases, who presented between 3 weeks and 4 1/2 months of age an ALTE and who progressively developed more florid ...

PURPOSE Commonly described multiorgan manifestation of acid GER: primary and secondary to cow's milk allergy and/or other food (CMA/FA) sometimes coexists with ALTE (Apparent Life Threatening Events) syndrome symptoms. Among these symptoms are apnea, cyanosis, pallor, hypotonia, non-epileptic seizures, consciousness disorders and bradycardia. MATERIALS AND METHODS 264 children aged: 4-102 mon...