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Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Microbubbles*

Most of health care professional obtain and update their new knowledge and skills through continuing education. Nurses who works three shifts per day are not easy to attend continuing education session usually offered during their working hours. One of solutions to this problem would be to develop a education program which does not limit time and place. The aim of this study is to develop and evaluate a web-based continuing education program, to help nurse improve their knowledge of transfusion therapy and medical law, and to enhance their ability to contribute to the quality of patient care. A wide range of contents regarding transfusion therapy are covered extensively, concentration on principles of transfusion therapy and administration of whole blood and blood components, transfusion reactions. In the medical law, contents on Korean law in general, medical law, history of revision of medical law, nursing related medical laws are covered, Many color illustrations have been included to help nurses learning process. Each unit has a set of multiple choice questions to provide feedback to nurses. Two sets of questionnaires were used for this study. First, a questionnaire was administered to 21 nurses to collect information on their general characteristics, opinions of inservice and continuing education, and experiences of using computer and internet before they were exposed to the program. Second, another questionnaire was administered to 21 nurses after they were exposed to the program. They were asked to evaluate program in terms of its easiness of use, contents and ways of presenting contents, and usefulness of program for learning. The program generally was well received by the nurses. The program is a useful adjunct to the existing continuing education program. It also could be used in nursing student education and other health sciences.
Blood Group Incompatibility ; Delivery of Health Care ; Education* ; Education, Continuing ; Humans ; Internet* ; Jurisprudence ; Learning ; Multimedia* ; Nursing ; Patient Care ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Students, Nursing ; Teaching Materials*

PURPOSE: Alterations in cerebral blood flow are very important for understanding the neurological consequences of all varieties of perinatal asphyxia. The purpose of this study is to measure the change of cerebral blood flow velocity and resistance index (RI) of middle cerebral artery (MCA) according to the time in asphyxiated infants. METHODS: We studied 7 asphyxiated term infant and 27 normal term infant who were born at Ewha Womans University Hospital from January 1996 to August 1997. Using the Doppler ultrasound, we examined blood flow velocity and RI of the middle cerebral artery. RESULTS: Clinical characteristics were not significantly different in both groups. Peak systolic flow velocity (PSFV) in asphyxiated infants significantly decreased than control (P<0.05). End diastolic flow velocity (EDFV) was not significantly different in both groups. RI in asphyxiated infants significantly decreased for 24 hours (P<0.05). No control infant ever had a RI value of 0.55 or below, three (42.9%) asphyxiated infants had a RI value of 0.55 or below. The changes of the systemic BP and heart rate were not significant. Two (28.6%) asphyxiated infants were proven periventricular white matter ischemia by ultrasonography. CONCLUSION: It is therefore very important to monitor RI in asphyxiated infants even if the degree of asphyxia is mild.
Asphyxia ; Blood Flow Velocity* ; Female ; Heart Rate ; Humans ; Infant* ; Ischemia ; Middle Cerebral Artery ; Ultrasonography

PURPOSE: Alterations in cerebral blood flow are very important for understanding the neurological consequences of all varieties of perinatal asphyxia. The purpose of this study is to measure the change of cerebral blood flow velocity and resistance index (RI) of middle cerebral artery (MCA) according to the time in asphyxiated infants. METHODS: We studied 7 asphyxiated term infant and 27 normal term infant who were born at Ewha Womans University Hospital from January 1996 to August 1997. Using the Doppler ultrasound, we examined blood flow velocity and RI of the middle cerebral artery. RESULTS: Clinical characteristics were not significantly different in both groups. Peak systolic flow velocity (PSFV) in asphyxiated infants significantly decreased than control (P<0.05). End diastolic flow velocity (EDFV) was not significantly different in both groups. RI in asphyxiated infants significantly decreased for 24 hours (P<0.05). No control infant ever had a RI value of 0.55 or below, three (42.9%) asphyxiated infants had a RI value of 0.55 or below. The changes of the systemic BP and heart rate were not significant. Two (28.6%) asphyxiated infants were proven periventricular white matter ischemia by ultrasonography. CONCLUSION: It is therefore very important to monitor RI in asphyxiated infants even if the degree of asphyxia is mild.
Asphyxia ; Blood Flow Velocity* ; Female ; Heart Rate ; Humans ; Infant* ; Ischemia ; Middle Cerebral Artery ; Ultrasonography

The purpose of this study was to collect basic information for the development of information interchange infrastructure of health research and development library in Korea. Domestic data was collected via mail and telephone survey and site visit of information producing and distributing organizations and agencies in the health related field. Data was analyzed and tabulated using descriptive statistics. Research and development activities of the National Library of Medicine were examined using materials posted on the internet. Content of data was reviewed and summarized. It was found that we lack a standardized Korean medical subject headings for the medical librarians to refer when indexing an article written in Korean. And most of academic societies lack a standardized vocaburary system for their members to refer when wrting an article.
Abstracting and Indexing as Topic ; Humans ; Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems ; Internet ; Korea ; Librarians ; Medical Subject Headings ; National Library of Medicine (U.S.) ; Postal Service ; Telephone

PURPOSE: This study was performed to evaluate the clinical significance of abnormal cervical cytology in pregnancy and the effectiveness of cytologic and colposcopic surveillance of these women. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted in pregnant women referred to the colposcopic clinic with abnormal cervical cytologic results above ASCUS between Jan. 2002 and Dec. 2007. The Initial colposcopy was performed at the end of 1st trimester. Cervical cytology and colposcopy were repeated once or twice during remaining period of pregnancy and at postpartum 6~8 weeks. Colposcopy directed cervical biopsies were taken in case of colposcopic abnormalities. Without evidence of invasion, no invasive procedure was attempted during pregnancy. Above CIN2 patients were treated postnatally. The postpartum diagnoses were compared to the worst antepartum impressions and initial cytologies. RESULTS: One hundred three pregnant women were referred to colposcopic clinic for 5 years. There was no invasive cervical cancer antenatally. After delivery, 53 patients were followed up and 17 patients above CIN2 lesions treated. Two microinvasive squamous cell carcinoma and 1 invasive adenocarcinoma were found postnatally. In 33 initial ASCUS cytologies, there were 7 CIN2,3 lesions and 3 invasive cancers. One CIN3 was found in 13 LSIL cytologies. All 7 HSIL patients had CIN3 lesions. There were 2 microinvasive cancers postnatally in 17 antenatal CIN2,3 patients. CONCLUSION: ASCUS cervical cytologic results in pregnancy have 30% possibility of CIN2,3 and cancer. LSIL results are normal in 85% and HSIL group 100% CIN3. Even though there is 12.5% risk of microinvasion in antenatal CIN2,3 lesions, noninvasive conservative management is reasonable.
Adenocarcinoma ; Biopsy ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Colposcopy ; Female ; Humans ; Postpartum Period ; Pregnancy ; Pregnant Women ; Retrospective Studies ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

PURPOSE: Since neonatal sepsis dose not have typical symptoms and signs, whenever suspected antibiotic therapy is the mainstay of treatment. Ampicillin-sulbactam has been widely used in the newborn nursery as the empirical antibiotics as well as ampicillin and gentamicin. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of amoxicillin-sulbactam to ampicillin-sulbactam in treating neonatal sepsis. METHODS: A randomized, controlled study was conducted in 60 full term neonates who were suspected to have sepsis. The patients were randomly assigned to receive amoxicillin-sulbactam 30 mg/kg/day (based on amoxicillin component) intravenously divided every 12 hours or ampicillin-sulbactam 75 mg/kg/day (based on ampicillin component) intravenously divided every 8 hours for at least 7 consecutive days. Clinical symptoms and signs, complete blood cell counts, blood chemistry and body fluid cultures were taken before, during and after the treatment. All patients were evaluated for clinical efficacy on the basis of the clinical, microbiological responses and side effects. RESULTS: The clinical success rates after 7 days of treatment were 100% for both groups. Drug related serious side effects did not occur in all patients. There were three cases (10%) of bacterial culture positive patients in amoxicillin-sulbactam treated group during treatment. But no more bacterial growth had found after 7 days antibiotics treatment. CONCLUSION: Amoxicillin-sulbactam was as effective and safe as ampicillin-sulbactam for whom neonatal sepsis was suspected.
Amoxicillin ; Ampicillin ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Blood Cell Count ; Body Fluids ; Chemistry ; Gentamicins ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Nurseries ; Sepsis

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of serum prealbumin as a biochemical marker for nutritional adequacy in neonates. METHODS: From March 1998 to May 1999, 71 fullterm (54 AGA, 9 LGA, 8 SGA) and 46 preterm neonates were enrolled. The correlations among prealbumin, albumin, birth weight and gestational age were obtained. Serum concentrations of albumin and prealbumin according to calory and protein intake were also serially measured in 30 fullterm and 29 preterm neonates on days 0, 3 and 7 of life. RESULTS: Serum prealbumin concentrations at birth were 10.2+/-2.6mg/dL in fullterm AGA, 12.1+/-3.3mg/dL in fullterm LGA, 8.3+/-1.2mg/dL in fullterm SGA and 8.8+/-2.4mg/dL in preterm neonates. Serum prealbumin concentration was significantly correlated with birth weight, gestational age and serum albumin level (P<0.01). In the neonates, prealbumin concentrations on day 3 of life were significantly lower than initial concentrations, and then they rised on the day 7 of life (P< 0.05). Serial serum prealbumin level was significantly correlated with body weight, calory intake and protein intake (P<0.01). When caloric and protein intakes were higher than 100kcal/kg/d and 2g/kg/d, respectively, there were significant differences in the changes of prealbumin concentrations on days 0, 3, and 7 of life, compared with those in neonates with lower intake. CONCLUSION: Serum prealbumin concentration could be used in the early recognition of changes in nutritional state in neonates.
Biomarkers* ; Birth Weight ; Body Weight ; Gestational Age ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Parturition ; Prealbumin* ; Serum Albumin

During childhood, meningioma is an uncommon tumor, and in infants, extracranial meningioma is very rare. We report a case of primary cutaneous menigioma occurring on the scalp of a ten-month-old girl.
Female ; Humans ; Infant* ; Meningioma* ; Scalp*

A research survey was conducted on 112 nursing educational institutes with three year associate and four ear baccalaureate programs and 36 institutes with master programs to determine the status of computer and informatics education in Korea. Seventy-seven(68.8%) of the 112 schools with associate and baccalaureate programs responded and 20(55.6%) of 36 schools with master program responded. Out of 77 institutions only 16 schools indicated that Nursing Informatics was offered as a separate course. It was taught mostly to the first year or the second year students and number of credits ranged from 1 to 3 while 2 credit being the most popular one. Further analysis of the syllabus indicated that the contents covered by different schools varied from school to school. They were computer basics, internet and communication, application program, the concept and the elements of the nursing informatics, utilization of nursing informatics in nursing practice, education, research, and administration, and health information system. Sixty schools out of 77 addressed computer related subjects in their curriculum. Computer related subjects were taught mostly to the first year students as a 2 credits class. Contents covered in computer related subjects were computer basics, internet and communication, and application program. Strategies for the implementation of nursing informatics in nursing education and exemplary programs are presented based on the findings.
Academies and Institutes ; Curriculum ; Ear ; Education* ; Education, Nursing ; Health Information Systems ; Humans ; Informatics ; Internet ; Korea* ; Nursing Informatics* ; Nursing*