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In an attempt to understand the effect of sounds on physiological measurements, along the positive (pleasant) negative (unpleasant) subjective dimension, 51 subjects (26 male) listened to 13 sounds in clips of 8s interspersed with 16s of silence while their heart rate, respiratory rate and skin conductance were measured and they recorded the subjective pleasantness of the sound. The sounds were...

A postal questionnaire survey of headteachers in 149 Infant, Junior and Primary schools (response rate: 63.8%) indicated poor asthma record keeping and a need for regular staff training in asthma. Dealing with an emergency was a major concern of headteachers. In 25 of the schools surveyed, an International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire was distributed to paren...

100 Vol 45 (Supplement 1) 2014 Wheezing is common symptoms throughout infancy and childhood except the neonatal period. Up to 25%-30% of infants have at least one episode of wheeze, half of whom have recurrent wheeze. Two-thirds of preschool wheezers stop wheezing by the age of six years. Although asthma is the common cause of recurrent wheezing in childhood, the younger the child the greater t...

Ian Donald [3] was an obstetrician who developed ultrasound [4] diagnostics during the twentieth century in Europe. Ultrasound is a medical diagnostic technique that uses sound waves to produce images of the inside of the body. During the early 1900s, physicians had no way to see inside a woman?s uterus [5] during pregnancy [6]. Donald developed the first method of scanning human internal anato...

BACKGROUND Estimates of prevalence of wheeze depend on questionnaires. However, wording of questions may vary between studies. We investigated effects of alternative wording on estimates of prevalence and severity of wheeze, and associations with risk factors. METHODS White and South Asian children from a population-based cohort (UK) were randomly assigned to two groups and followed up at one...

BACKGROUND In acute dyspnoeic children, assessment of dyspnoea severity and treatment response is frequently based on clinical dyspnoea scores. Our study aim was to validate five commonly used paediatric dyspnoea scores. METHODS Fifty children aged 0-8 years with acute dyspnoea were clinically assessed before and after bronchodilator treatment, a subset of 27 children were videotaped and asse...