INTRODUCTION Our objective was to compare the effectiveness, speed, and complication rate of the traditional manually placed intraosseous (IO) catheter to a mechanical drill-assisted IO catheter by emergency medicine (EM) resident physicians in a training environment. METHODS Twenty-one EM residents participated in a randomized prospective crossover experiment placing 2 intraosseous needles (...

Twenty-three adolescents hospitalized on an inpatient psychiatric unit underwent a dexamethasone suppression test (DST) and were diagnosed as having major depressive disorder by interviewers blind to the DST results. These patients were divided into four categories according to whether they had major depressive disorders, endogenous ( MDDe ) or nonendogenous (MDD), and whether they were nonsupp...

The effect of epilepsy on cognitive functions has been investigated in this study. The P300 auditory event related potentials (AERP), Wechsler Adult Performance Intelligence Scale (WAPIS--Indian Adaptation) & Digit Span Test (DST) have been used to assess the cognitive status. Twenty primary generalised epilepsy patients and 20 normal controls were subjected to WAPIS & DST testing and their AER...

PURPOSE Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the cornerstone of asthma treatment in children. However, there is considerable inter-individual variation in glucocorticoid sensitivity, leading to over- as well as undertreatment. A simple and fast test to predict glucocorticoid sensitivity would enable more tailored therapy in children with asthma. AIM To study reproducibility and utility of an ove...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of major global health problems. To make matters worse, the drug resistant TB such as multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is spreading out throughout the world which means the drug susceptibility test (DST) is necessary to treat the TB patients. To reduce the time for DST, we applied the single cell tracking me...

Aims: The sensitivity and specificity of the relative disialotransferrin amount (%DST), considered the primary single target for measurement of the alcohol biomarker carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), were compared with the absolute CDT amount determined by the CDTect assay and with GGT and AST. Methods: Serum samples (n = 1387) were collected within the WHO/ISBRA Study on State and Trai...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationships between 30-m sprint and standing broad jump physical function junior high school baseball players. [Participants Methods] Twenty-six players participated. sprint, jump, deep squat test (DST), split legs, straight leg raise (SLR), grip strength, trunk (Sahrmann core stability test: SCST) were measured, SLR, DST, SCST graded. Sp...

Infections with multidrug-resistant (resistant at least to rifampicin, RIF and isoniazid, INH) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are associated with high case fatality rates. Rapid identification' of MDR-TB strains is important for early institution of appropriate therapy. Two DNA line probe assays, GenoType MTBDR (GT-MTBDR) and INNO-LiPA Rif. TB (INNO-LiPA) were compared for their...

Academic and social success in school has been linked to children’s self-regulation. This study investigated the assessment of the executive function (EF) component of self-regulation using a low-cost, easily administered measure to determine whether scores obtained from the behavioral task would agree with those obtained using a laboratory-based neuropsychological measure of EF skills. The sam...