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Pijn bij kinderen
Jan is een peuter van 18 maanden die opgenomen wordt vanwege een liesbreuk. Er wordt bloed afgenomen met behulp van een vingerprik. Jan schreeuwt moord en brand en zijn moeder spreekt hem sussend toe, maar dat...
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Pijn bij kinderen
Pijn bij kinderen kan gaan over pasgeborenen die een hielprik ondergaan tot adolescenten met migraine. Uit de gevalsbeschrijvingen blijkt ook hoe belangrijk de context is waarin pijn optreedt en hoe ieder kind...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Patient Safety Management System in Pediatric ICUs
The multidisciplinary approach of the project is improving patient safety by continuous quality assessment and modification guided by monthly, real data. Cost effectiveness of patient safety management systems...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Patient Safety Management System in Pediatric ICUs
Patient safety has become an increasingly important topic of discussion in health care organizations all over the world. The publication of the report To err is human by the Institute of Medicine in the United St...
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The Fragile Balance Between Cells, Organisms and Environment
Along different lines specialized units have been instituted providing intensive care for children with a large variety of bodyweight, age and disease entities. Not only the diseases treated in these units are...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pain Measurement in Children
Up till now, little is known about the need and the effect of analgesics in newborns and infants in the postoperative period. Insufficient analgesia can give rise to stress responses with an increased morbidit...
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The Lung in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
Growth and development are fundamental processes and understanding of the mechanisms resulting in abnormal growth and development form the core of pediatrics and pediatric surgery.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Advantages and Rationale for Pressure Controlled Ventilation
Ashbaugh and colleagues [1] in 1969 have used low levels positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with volume controlled ventilation (VCV) (5–10 cm H2O) in the treatment of hypoxemia in adult respiratory distress ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Continuing Challenge for Pediatric Surgeons and Neonatologists
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is an important cause of neonatal respiratory insufficiency [1–6]. It is a very serious congenital anomaly with an unknown cause and an estimated incidence of 1/3000 newbo...
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Effect of Artificial Ventilation on Pulmonary Antioxidant Enzyme Activities in a Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Rat Model
Treatment of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) develo** respiratory insufficiency within a few hours after birth remains unsatisfactory. The incidence of CDH is about 1:3000 newborns (Hazebr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diagnosis of Innervation-Related Motility Disorders of the Gut and Basic Aspects of Enteric Nervous System Development
Motility disorders of the gut in children have become a matter of increasing concern for the pediatric surgeon. Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is the most common disease requiring surgery in early inf...
