Background: Neonatal jaundice is a common condition in approximately 60% of term newborns during the first week after birth. Therefore, it is necessary to detect methods for the prevention of this problem.This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of massage therapy on transcutaneous bilirubin level in healthy term newborns. Methods: The present study was conducted on102 healthy term newbo...

This study models a transcutaneous energy transmission system which can supply DC power to an implanted device without an external battery. The goals of the study are to: (1) develop a model to describe the transcutaneous energy transmission system; and (2) use the developed model to design a transcutaneous energy transmission system for an implantable gastrointestinal neurostimulator. The comp...

We studied transcutaneous pCO2 monitoring in 70 neonates, most of them premature with respiratory distress syndrome. Measurements were at 44 degrees C. Calibration drift was large in some instances. Least squares linear regression analyses of transcutaneous pCO2 (y) vs arterial pCO2 (x) in kilopascals showed, for all observations (n = 516), for one observation randomly selected from each patien...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of measurements of end tidal carbon dioxide (CO2) during neonatal transport compared with arterial and transcutaneous measurements. DESIGN Paired end tidal and transcutaneous CO2 recordings were taken frequently during road transport of 21 ventilated neonates. The first paired CO2 values were compared with an arterial blood gas. The differences between arteria...

CAN J ANESTH 55: 6 www.cja-jca.org June, 2008 References 1 Melarkode K, Prinzhausen H. Hemoglobin M variant and congenital methemoglobinemia: methylene blue will not be effective in the presence of hemoglobin M. Can J Anesth 2008; 55: 129–30. 2 Schweitzer SA. Spurious pulse oximeter desaturation due to methaemoglobinaemia. Anaesth Intensive Care 1991: 19: 269–71. 3 Cassady G. Transcutaneous mon...

Contamination or transcutaneous absorption of organophosphates (OP) is rare and there exist only few reports of such manner of poisoning. We report four children from the same family in whom temporal proximity of the disease onset, a detailed interrogation of parents and exclusion of other clinical differentials, led to the diagnosis of transcutaneous intoxication with organophosphates (diazino...

s s variety of surgical approaches to the orbital floor nd infraorbital rim exist and can be conveniently ategorized as either transcutaneous or transconjuncival. These approaches are widely used for exposure, valuation, and treatment of orbital trauma, patholgy, and cosmesis. While we use both methods, we eel there are advantages of each depending on the urgical plan. For purposes of this arti...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of the site of measurement of transcutaneous bilirubin (forehead or sternum) in reproducibility of results as compared to plasma bilirubin. METHODS A cohort study including 58 term newborns with no hemolytic disease. Transcutaneous measurements were performed on the forehead (halfway between the headline and the glabella, from the left toward the right s...

Previous studies have shown that external ultrasound with low frequencies and high intensities can enhance thrombolytic drug-induced clot dissolution during in vitro experiments. In this series of studies, we evaluated the efficacy of peripheral and coronary thrombolysis in vivo in animals by using noninvasive transcutaneous ultrasound combined with thrombolytic drugs (streptokinase and tPA) an...

A combined single electrochemical sensor designed to measure synchronously and transcutaneously oxygen partial pressure and carbon dioxide partial pressure (RADIOMETER prototype) was applied onto the scalp in 21 fetuses during labor. The values of tcPo2 respectively tcPco2 were compared with the values of fetal blood analysis (FBA) and blood from the umbilical artery (UA): Comparing the tcPco2 ...