O Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA), segundo a American Psychiatric Association (APA), é uma desordem neurodesenvolvimento com início precoce e curso crônico, não degenerativo. De acordo Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), cada 160 crianças possuem o transtorno. A proposta deste trabalho revisão de literatura respeito eficácia das intervenções nas habilidades sociais em pessoas TEA. Para rea...

Stress disorders are common after burn injuries and universal screening is recommended. This study describes current practices provider beliefs regarding for stress in patients with burns the US. was a 31-question survey distributed to American Burn Association. Sixty-two percent of 121 respondents indicated their institution formally screened ASD and/or PTSD. The most reason not lack mental he...

* Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law. J.D., 1982, University of Arizona, LL.M., 1988, M.P.H., 1996, Yale University. I thank attendees of the ABA 2000 annual conference, the Connecticut Bar Association Health Law Section, and members of the Quinnipiac law faculty for comments on earlier drafts. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Need a Doctor in a Hurry? How About MD.com?, N.Y. TIMES, 1 Ju...

There has been increasing emphasis on the development of practice guidelines and validated measurements to evaluate surgical practice. Initiatives such as the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) have demonstrated the importance of an outcome-based approach to improving surgical care. The development of guidelines and outcome-based benchmarks requires established standards of p...

OBJECTIVE To assess mortality risk and extent of increased length of hospital stay in patients with burn injury with preexisting liver disease. METHODS Records of 31,338 adults who were admitted with burns to 70 burn centers were reviewed from the American Burn Association National Burn Repository. Demographics, percentage burn, and medical characteristics of 180 patients with liver disease w...

BACKGROUND Currently, residency programs lack objective predictors for passing the sequenced American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) certification examinations on the first attempt. Our hypothesis was that performance on the ABA/American Society of Anesthesiologists In-Training Examination (ITE) and other variables can predict combined success on the ABA Part 1 and Part 2 examinations. METHOD ...

In February 2007, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) revised its Model Code of Judicial Conduct, including significant changes in both form and substance.1 The adoption of the 2007 Judicial Code concluded a three-and-a-half year revision process by the ABA Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Judicial Code (“Commission”).2 During the revision process, the Commission solicited comment on a n...

INTRODUCTION Burn injury and its subsequent multisystem effects are commonly encountered by acute care practitioners. Resuscitation is the major component of initial burn care and must be managed to restore and preserve remote organ function. Later complications of burn injury are dominated by infection. Burn centers are often called to manage soft tissue problems outside thermal injury includi...

BACKGROUND Burn related injuries from natural disasters are not well described and natural disasters are not identified as an etiology of burn injury in the National Burn Repository (NBR) of the American Burn Association. The natural disaster Super Storm Hurricane Sandy had devastating effects. Our goal was to detail the burn related injuries following this natural disaster and to compare the d...