has coordinated a terrifi c issue of Pediatric Annals, with a group of outstanding articles devoted to the child with complex medical needs. The fi rst four articles in the issue deal with the scien-tifi c and medical aspects of providing care to this patient population. Julie Hauer (see page 198) systematically clarifi es the mechanisms that cause pain in neurologi-cally impaired children, hig...

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common acute surgery events. Its main treatment is surgery. However medical management before and after the surgery has an important impact on the treatment. Objective: The aim of study was evaluating the outcomes of single dose and quadruple doses of prophylactic antibiotic therapy in patients with acute ...

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The antagonism, by neostigmine, of neuromuscular blockade produced by either Org NC 45 or pancuronium was studied in 29 anaesthetized patients during a continuous infusion of the myoneural blocker. The ED50 of neostigmine (dose which produced a 50% antagonism) when antagonizing Org NC 45 and pancuronium was 0.011 mg kg-1 and 0.010 mg kg-1 respectively. The dose-response relationships for the an...

We study the kinematics of emission lines that arise from many physical processes in NGC 6153 based upon deep, spatially-resolved, high resolution spectra acquired with UVES spectrograph at ESO VLT. Our most basic finding is plasma complex, especially its temperature structure. The defines a classic expansion law, outer part expanding fastest (normal nebular plasma). However, permitted \ion{O}{...