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Impact of implementing French antibiotic guidelines for acute respiratory-tract infections in a paediatric emergency department, 2005–2009
Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are the main reason for antibiotic prescription in children. In 2005, the French Drug Agency published guidelines to minimise inappropriate use of antibiotics for ART...
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Référentiel métier-compétences pour la surspécialité de médecine d’urgence pédiatrique
La spécialité de pédiatrie doit se structurer autour d’un « tronc commun » de pédiatrie générale suivi d’une surspécialité pédiatrique, comme la pédiatrie d’urgence, dont l’enseignement recommandé est respectivem...
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Neurodevelopmental and Respiratory Outcomes at 2 Years of Age in Preterm Infants Treated with Inhaled Nitric Oxide: the Euno Trial Follow Up
Background and aims: The EUNO trial of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) for the prevention of BPD showed similar frequencies for the primary outcome (survival without BPD at 36 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA): iNO 65.3%;...
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731 Organisation of Paediatric Emergency Care in Europe
Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) is a relatively new and rapidly evolving subspecialty, and in other parts of the world it is now established as a Board-certified paediatric subspecialty. In Europe, PEM has...
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910 Sensitivity and Specificity of the Rapid Influenza Antigen Test Clearview® Exact Influenza a and B for Pandemic Iunfluenza A/H1N1 (2009)
Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is considered to be the reference test for diagnosis of influenza, because of its high sensitivity and specificity. Rapid Influenza Antigen Test (RIAT) ...
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240 Factors Influencing Neurological Outcome of Children with Bacterial Meningitis
Background and aims: Acute bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness with possible long-term neurocognitive sequelae. Aim of the study was to identify clinical and biological factors associated with d...
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Invasive group A streptococcal infection in children: clinical manifestations and molecular characterization in a French pediatric tertiary care center
Invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) infections have a broad and evolving clinical spectrum, associated with various GAS genotypes and/or virulence factors that are only poorly described in children. We aimed ...
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Early inhaled nitric oxide in moderately hypoxemic preterm and term newborns with RDS: the RDS subgroup analysis of the Franco-Belgian iNO Randomized Trial.
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Inhaled and exhaled nitric oxide
Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) is used to treat various cardiopulmonary disorders associated with pulmonary hypertension. The rationale is based on the fact that NO, given by inhalation, only dilates those pulmona...
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Dypiridamole, a cGMP phosphodiesterase inhibitor, transiently improves the response to inhaled nitric oxide in two newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Introduction: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) remains a frustating cause of respiratory failure associated with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN). Although in...
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Disease-related response to inhaled nitric oxide in newborns with severe hypoxaemic respiratory failure
Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) has been shown to improve oxygenation in severe persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN). However, PPHN is often associated with various lung diseases. Thus, response...
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Identification of RAPD markers linked to a locus involved in quantitative resistance to TYLCV in tomato by bulked segregant analysis
In tomato, Bulked Segregant Analysis was used to identify random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers linked to a quantitative trait locus (QTL) involved in the resistance to the Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl V...
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Amphibole-bearing peridotite xenoliths from Nushan, Anhui Province: Evidence for melt percolation process in the upper mantle and lithospheric uplift
The spinel peridotite xenoliths of Group I in Quaternary basanites from Nushan, Anhui Province, can be classified as two suites: a hydrous suite characterized by the ubiquitous occurrence of (Ti-) pargasite an...
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Identification and map** on chromosome 9 of RAPD markers linked to Sw-5 in tomato by bulked segregant analysis
Bulked segregant analysis was used to identify random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers linked to the Sw-5 gene for resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in tomato. Using two pools of phenotyped i...
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Hemodynamics and oxygenation changes induced by the discontinuation of low-dose inhalational nitric oxide in newborn infants
To assess changes associated with nitric oxide (NO) discontinuation in neonates receiving inhalational NO therapy as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension of the neonate (PPHN).
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Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is a complex disorder associated with a wide array of cardiopulmonary diseases. PPHN is characterized by marked pulmonary hypertension and altered vasore...
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Igneous Activity. Caledono-Hercynian Magmatism in the French Massif Central
This chapter presents Caledono-Hercynian magmatism under two main headings:
magmatism, Sections 2–5
granitoid magm...
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Identification of the two common alleles of the bovine κ-casein locus by the RFLP technique, using the enzyme Hind III
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Neonatal Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been successfully used to treat acute respiratory failure (ARF) in over 1000 neonates since Dr. Bartlett’s pioneering efforts and his first survivor in 1975 [1]. ...
