Objective To assess and quantitatively analyze the comprehensive benefits of improvement of drinking water quality in Hetian county of Xinjiang Methods The incidences of water borne infectious diseases(dysentery,hepatitis,typhoid and cholera) during 1992~1998 and the effects of health education were reviewed The decreases of the costs for drinking water transportation and the saving of medical expenses were analyzed quantitatively Results 95% of the total population were benefited from the improvement of drinking water quality The incidence rates of water borne infectious diseases except dysentery revealed a decreasing trend during 1992~1998 in Hetian county The benefited population presented higher levels of sanitary knowledge and good sanitary habits By the end of 2000,the accumulative investment for water improvement reached up to 45 50 million yuan,the saving of the costs for drinking water transportation and medical expenses was from 18 64 million yuan to 42 46 million yuan and 6 60 million yuan respectively,the benefit of building water plants and the development of peasant family economy was 2 91 million yuan and 35 56 million yuan respectively The totoal direct economic benefit reached from 67 31 million yuan to 87 52 million yuan Conclusion The project of improvement of drinking water quality revealed significant social and economic benefit,which had obviously exceeded the total investment

Objective    To investigate the effect of low-flow inhaling NO for short time on postoperative cardiac and pulmonary functions in infants with congenital ventricular septal defect complicated with severe pulmonary hypertension. Methods    Forty-five patients with congenital ventricular septal defect complicated with severe pulmonary hypertension from May 2014 to May 2016 in our hospital were enrolled. There were 19 males and 26 females, whose age ranged from 1 to 22 months (average age: 7.2±14.4 months) and weight ranged from 2.7 to 10.5 kg (average weight: 6.8±3.6 kg). The patients were randomly divided into three groups (n=15 in each): the blank group, the prior inhalation group and the posterior inhalation group. The blank group did not inhale NO, and the prior inhalation group inhalated NO for 10 min after tracheal and intubation. After the opening of the aorta, the posterior inhalation group inhaled NO for 10 min. The concentration of NO was 20 × 10–6. The pressure ratio of pulmonary circulation/systematic circulation, heart index and oxygenation index were calculated and the troponin value of the three groups was monitored 10 min after returning to intensive care unit (ICU) and postoperatively 1 h, 3 h and 24 h. Differences among above indicators between three groups were compared. Results    The troponin value of the posterior inhalation group within 3 h increased most, followed by the blank group and the prior inhalation group. Postoperatively 1 h and 3 h, the troponin value of the prior inhalation group was significantly less than that of the blank group and posterior inhalation group (P<0.01) and the value on postoperative 24 h in each group was lower than that on postoperative 3 h. The cardiac index of prior inhalation group was higher than that of the blank group and the posterior inhalation group at each time point. Postoperatively 3 h and 24 h as well as 10 min after returning to ICU, the cardiac index in prior inhalation group was significantly higher than that of the posterior inhalation group (P<0.05). The pressure ratio of pulmonary circulation/systematic circulation of posterior inhalation group increased more than that of blank group; the differences in two groups were significant between postoperative 3 h and 10 min after returning to ICU (P<0.01). There was no statistical significance in the pressure ratio on postoperative 24 h and 10 min after returning to ICU (P>0.05) in three groups. The index of oxygenation of the prior inhalation group was higher than that of the blank group and the posterior inhalation group and statistically different from that of posterior inhalation group (P<0.05). Conclusion    Inhaling NO 10 min preoperatively can reduce the injury to the heart and lung function effectively, but the result is the opposite when inhalating NO 10 min after aorta opening.

Objective To analyze the curative effect of nitric oxide (NO) and bosentan on treatment of the interruption of aortic arch (IAA) with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and serious pulmonary hypertension (SPH). Methods Thirty-two children with IAA and VSD combined SPH from January 2015 to May 2017 confirmed by cardiac CT and ultrasound in Children’s Hospital of Hebei Province were enrolled including 17 males and 15 females, aged 1.10-4.30 months (mean, 2.71±0.98 months) and weighing 3.33-6.10 kg (mean, 4.57±0.88 kg). The 32 children were randomly divided into two groups (n=16 in each), a NO group and a bosentan group. All the patients underwent interruption of aortic arch and ventricular septal defect repair. When patients returned to cardiosurgery intensive care unit (CSICU) half an hour later, patients in the NO group inhaled NO 20 ppm for 36 h and those in the bosentan group were given bosentan by nasogastric feeding 15 mg, twice a day. The cardic index, pulmonary/systemic pressure ratio, oxygenation index at 3 h, 6 h, 12 h, 24 h, 36 h after surgery were evaluated, and the differences between the two groups were compared. Results The pulmonary/systemic pressure ratio in the two groups increased at first and then decreased, while oxygenation index in the two groups decreased at first and then increased, and the differences in the same groups atthe adjacent time points were statistically significant (P<0.05). The cardiac index in the two groups decreased at first and then increased, the differences in the same groups at the adjacent time points were statistically significant, except for 6 h and 12 h after surgery in the bosentan group (P>0.05). At postoperative 6 h, 12 h, the oxygenation index in the NO group was significantly higher than that in the bosentan group, and the pulmonary/systemic pressure ratio in the NO group was less than that in the bosentan group (P<0.01). The cardiac index in the NO group was higher than that of the bosentan group after 6 h, 12 h, 24 h of operation, which were statistically significant (P<0.05), and the cardic index of children in the NO group was greatly higher than that in the bosentan group after 12 h of surgery (P<0.01); at the same time point, the corresponding indexes were not statistically significant between the two groups (P>0.05). Conclusion NO inhalation in the treatment of IAA with VSD and SPH in children with early postoperative SPH is better than the bosentan, but in the late postoperative period, the effect is similar.