OBJECTIVES To compare the agreement between conventional measurement of blood pressure and measurements obtained using two automated devices; and to compare how comfortable each of the three methods of measurement were for patients. METHODS Blood pressure measurements and patient comfort scores were recorded using three different devices in 125-surgery and 40-community patients. The devices u...

Subscapular skinfold, elbow breadth and upper arm indicators of nutritional status were studied in the population of Dalmatia in Croatia. Age- and sex-specific percentiles were obtained from 4373 subjects, 18 to 74 years of age, and compared to the U.S. NHANES I and II reference data. There were significant differences between these data sets in all studied variables. The results complement tho...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the contribution of upper and lower arm torsion to grasp orientation during a reaching and grasping movement. In particular, we examined how the visuomotor system deals with the conflicting demands of coordinating upper and lower arm torsion and maintaining Donders' Law of the upper arm (a behavioral restriction of the axes of arm rotation to ...

The trousseau’s sign is carpopedal spasm that results from ischemia that is induced by pressure applied to the upper arm. It is a sensitive and specific sign of hypocalcemia. Here the author is sending the short case summary, images of the demonstration of the Trousseau’s sign. This case also had a cluster of seizures induced by hypocalcemia.

651 VOLUME 47__AUGUST 17, 2010 Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children below five years of age remains a major embarrassment, and impediment to optimal human capital development in India. The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund proposed diagnostic criteria for severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 60 months include any of the following: (i) weight...

BACKGROUND Use of upper-arm arterial occlusion to induce reactive hyperemia, and endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery, induces greater conduit vessel dilatation than lower-arm occlusion. However, brachial artery ischemia after upper arm arterial occlusion may make this approach unreliable. We studied whether upper or lower arm occlusions differ in their abil...

By A. GREVILLE YOUNG, f.r.c.s. (Ed.), d.t.m. Church of Scotland Mission Hospital, Jalna, Deccan On 18th August, 1936, I first saw a Brahmin woman with five nodules on the left arm and three on her right. The nodules were of a purple colour, smooth and about the size of a large pea; and on the left arm the area between the nodules was completely anaesthetic. The dots in the diagram represent the...

This study examines and compares the response of two upper extremity test devices under driver-side air bag deployment to contribute to the development of dummy surrogates for the investigation of primary contact forearm injuries during air bag deployments. The first of these test devices, the SAE 5’ Percentile Female Arm (SAE Arm), is an anthropomorphic representation of a small female forearm...

the teratogenicity of cadmium exposure was studied in virgin nimri rats aged 10-13 weeks. pregnant animals were fed cadmium sulfate equivalent to doses of 1,4 and 7 mg/kg/day of cadmium by oral gavage on the day 7 of gestation. on the day 18 of gestation, fetuses were delivered and examined for external and skeletal malformations. total percent of malformed fetuses in rats treated by different ...