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Terms modified by Posters Selected AbstractsAbstracts presented at the Poster and Video sessions at the 4th Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy held on 26 March 2005 in Seoul, KoreaDIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY, Issue 2 2006Article first published online: 22 FEB 200 First page of article [source] Poster and Oral AbstractsINTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL, Issue 2010Article first published online: 15 AUG 2010 First page of article [source] Poster Abstracts Others,Published OnlyRESPIROLOGY, Issue 2005Article first published online: 27 OCT 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA Poster and Podium PresentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S38 2004Article first published online: 26 JAN 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA Poster and Podium PresentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S38 2004Article first published online: 26 JAN 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA Poster and Podium PresentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S38 2004Article first published online: 26 JAN 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA Poster and Podium PresentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S34 2002Article first published online: 8 MAR 200 First page of article [source] Poster 1, Haemorrhagic bullae in a child with Henoch,Schönlein purpuraBRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 6 2007S. Abdul-Ghaffar Henoch,Schönlein purpura (HSP) is one of the most common types of vasculitis in children. It usually presents with purpura, abdominal pain, arthralgia/arthritis and nephritis. The purpura seen in HSP is typically petechial or target-like and is the presenting sign in 50% of patients. Haemorrhagic bullae are rarely reported in children. We describe a 10-year-old boy who presented with a 1-week history of a petechial rash on his legs and buttocks, associated with abdominal pain and tender, swollen ankles and knees in May 2006. He had a history of a preceding upper respiratory tract infection. A clinical diagnosis of HSP was made at this stage. However, the rash became more extensive, involving his arms, shoulders and ears. Within 2 weeks, large tense haemorrhagic bullae developed on the lower legs, feet and hands. Urinalysis was positive for blood and protein but his blood pressure and renal function were normal. The rest of his investigations, including a full vasculitis screen, were normal. Because of the atypical bullae, a skin biopsy was performed. This showed leucocytoclastic vasculitis with IgA deposition consistent with HSP. The lesions improved with prednisolone, starting at 2 mg kg,1 daily, gradually reducing the dose over 3 months. Bullous HSP has been seen in up to 60% of adult patients but only in 2% of children. There have been only 11 reported cases of bullous HSP to date and the commonest sites were feet, ankles, legs and buttocks, suggesting that pressure is the most likely factor in its pathogenesis. This is an important observation as the presence of these atypical bullous lesions may pose a diagnostic challenge. [source] Poster 2, Acne fulminans: part of the spectrum of SAPHOBRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 6 2007S.L. Chua A 13-year-old boy was admitted to hospital with severe back pain and systemic upset. He had commenced isotretinoin 25 mg (0·5 mg kg,1) daily 17 days previously for severe acne unresponsive to oral erythromycin. Isotretinoin was stopped after 4 days due to severe lower back pain. On admission, he was unable to mobilize and the pain was uncontrolled with oral morphine sulphate. Investigations showed leucocytosis and neutrophilia. Magnetic resonance imaging of the vertebrae showed multiple areas of high signal consistent with an inflammatory process such as osteomyelitis. Oral prednisolone 40 mg daily and ibuprofen controlled the pain within 2 days. Sulfasalazine (1 g twice daily) was commenced 10 days later. The re-introduction of isotretinoin 5 mg daily 12 days after admission precipitated severe back pain, necessitating 3 days of intravenous methylprednisolone. The oral prednisolone dose has been reduced over 6 weeks and stopped. The acne is currently controlled with clindamycin, although there is marked scarring. Acne fulminans is a rare condition characterized by sudden onset of severe acne and systemic features such as fever, leucocytosis and arthralgia.1 Osteomyelitic lesions are a recognized feature. In 1987, the term SAPHO (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis) syndrome was proposed to describe a clinical entity with skin, joint and bone manifestations. Associated skin conditions include severe acne, psoriasis and palmoplantar pustulosis. Reported sites of osteoarticular involvement include the anterior chest wall, vertebrae, pelvis and mandible.2 Our patient clearly has acne fulminans and fulfils the criteria for SAPHO syndrome. We believe this condition will be increasingly recognized by dermatologists. References 1 Karvonen S. Acne fulminans: report of clinical findings and treatment of twenty-four patients. J Am Acad Dermatol 1993; 28:572,9. 2 Hayem G, Bouchaud-Chabot A, Benali K et al. SAPHO syndrome: a long-term follow-up study of 120 cases. Semin Arthritis Rheum 1999; 29:159,71. [source] Providing early intervention services for the primary care sector: the PMHT approachACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 2002A. McGovern Primary Mental Health Teams are a state-wide initiative of the government of Victoria to address identified gaps in mental health service delivery namely early intervention for psychosis and mental health services for high prevalence disorders. This poster will outline this dynamic community based approach to supporting and enhancing services for clients with mental health issues that are currently provided by the primary care sector. Specifically, the poster will focus on the development of a local cross sectorial approach to early psychosis with the dual aims of decreasing the duration of untreated psychosis and adopting best practice guidelines for improved outcomes for this high risk population. [source] Receptors for calcitonin gene-related peptide and adrenomedullin: implications for skin cell biologyEXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, Issue 9 2004J. A. Fischer The specificity of a G-protein-coupled calcitonin receptor (CTR) and a CT receptor-like receptor (CLR) for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), adrenomedullin (AM) and amylin is defined by the heterodimeric non-covalent association with three receptor-activity-modifying proteins (RAMPs). Chemical cross-linking of proteins at the cell surface and immunoprecipitation have identified [125I]CGRP/CLR/RAMP1, [125I]AM/CLR/RAMP2 and -3 as well as [125I]CGRP/CTR/RAMP1, [125I]amylin/CTR/RAMP1 and -RAMP3 complexes. CLR/RAMP1 defines a CGRP receptor. CLR/RAMP2 and -3 correspond to AM1 and AM2 receptor isotypes, respectively. The AM1 receptor cross-reacts with CGRP at high and the AM2 receptor at low concentrations. With the N-terminal deletion of amino acids 14,20 of the mouse, CLR-selective inactivation of AM over CGRP receptor function was obtained. As a result, functional interaction with AM was no longer possible. Overexpression of the CLR in transgenic mice together with the endogenous RAMP2 results in thinning of the hairs during postnatal development (L. M. Ittner et al. conference poster). In conclusion, the extreme N-terminus of the CLR and the extracellular N-terminal domains of RAMP1 and -2 contain amino acid residues that provide AM- or CGRP-binding selectivity of the CLR/RAMP complexes. Hair development is attenuated, resulting in the thinning of the hairs and eventually alopecia during postnatal development. [source] Society for developmental biology outstanding student posterGENESIS: THE JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2005Article first published online: 8 NOV 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] More than a great poster: Lord Kitchener and the image of the military heroHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 185 2001Keith Surridge Lord Kitchener was once a great legendary figure but the imagery and iconography used to create the legend is less well known. By using his papers and contemporary literature this article attempts to shed light on how Kitchener was regarded by his peers and the public. Instead of the wholesome English traits attributed to his predecessors, Kitchener's admirers and enemies described him as ,oriental', ,teutonic', devious, cruel, machine-like and efficient, which made him the ideal champion for a country undergoing a collective crisis of confidence before 1914. Thus Kitchener was, in many ways, a new kind of hero. [source] VENOUS NEEDLE DISLODGEMENT: HOW TO MINIMISE THE RISKSJOURNAL OF RENAL CARE, Issue 4 2008Jean-Pierre Van Waeleghem SUMMARY Although haemodialysis (HD) has become a routine treatment, adverse side effects, and occasionally life threatening clinical complications, still happen. Venous needle dislodgment (VND) is one of the most serious accidents that can occur during HD. If the blood pump is not stopped, either by activation of the protective system of the dialysis machine or manually, the patient can bleed to death within minutes. Fatal and near-fatal blood loss due to VND have been described in the literature (ECRI 1998; Sandroni 2005; Mactier & Worth 2007), but published reports represent only the tip of the ice berg, as such incidents are normally handled at a local or national level. The European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association (EDTNA/ERCA) has produced 12 practice recommendations to help reduce the risk of VND and detect blood leakage as early as possible. A poster summarising these recommendations has been created (Van Waeleghem et al. 2008). [source] Ineffectiveness of sun awareness posters in dermatology clinicsJOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY, Issue 6 2010GW Jung Abstract Background, Although sun awareness posters have been used in doctors' offices and clinics for decades to promote sun protective behaviour, there is no evidence of their usefulness. Objectives, To investigate whether sun awareness posters lead to inquiry of skin cancer and sun protection measures. Method, Patients considered at risk for skin cancer seen at a dermatology clinic were randomly asked to complete a questionnaire designed to assess the effectiveness of three different sun awareness posters placed in patient rooms. The posters were selected on the basis of their catchy slogan and eye-appealing images, and included those featuring parental interest, sex appeal and informative advice. Results, Only half of the patients noticed the posters (50.6%). The poster with sex appeal garnered the most attention (67.8%), followed by the informative poster (49.2%) and the parental interest poster (35.8%) (P < 0.001). Although patients who noticed the sun awareness poster inquired about cutaneous cancers and sun protection practices twice as often as those who did not notice the poster, only one-tenth of such inquiries were attributed to the poster (,5% of the target population). As reported in the questionnaire, the posters themselves were less effective than the advice of physicians in influencing patient attitudes towards sun protection measures. Conclusion, Organizations that produce and disseminate posters should consider beyond focus groups when they design their posters and should consider field testing their products to ensure that they are reaching the targeted audience and are having the expected beneficial effect, otherwise their posters are simply decorative. [source] A cognitive aid for neonatal resuscitation: a randomized controlled trialPEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA, Issue 7 2009M.D. Bould Introduction:, Anaesthetists are among several health care practitioners responsible for neonatal resuscitation in Canada. The Neonatal resuscitation program (NRP) courses are the North American educational standard. NRP has been shown to be an effective way of learning skills and knowledge but retention has been found to be problematic [1]. The use of cognitive aids is mandatory in industries such as aviation, to avoid dependence on memory when decision making in critical situations. Visual cognitive aids have been studied retrospectively in resuscitation and performance was found to correlate to the frequency of use of the aid [2]. Cognitive aids have been found to be of benefit in an unblinded prospective study [3]. We aimed to conduct the first blinded study on the effect of a cognitive aid on the performance of simulated resuscitation. Methods:, We conducted a single-blind randomized controlled trial to investigate whether the presence of a cognitive aid improved performance in a simulated neonatal resuscitation. After ethics board approval we recruited 32 anaesthesia residents who had previously passed the NRP. Subjects were randomized to an intervention group that had a poster detailing the NRP algorithm and a control group without the poster. The cognitive aid was positioned so that it could not be seen on the video recordings of the simulation that was used to assess performance. The scenario was piloted to confirm adequate blinding. Both groups had their performance in a simulated neonatal resuscitation recorded and subsequently analyzed by a peer, an expert anaesthetist and an expert neonatologist, using a previously validated checklist. A further rater observed the scenario in real time to examine frequency of use of the cognitive aid. Results:, The inter-rater reliability of the checklist was excellent with an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.88. Consequently the mean of the scores assigned by all three raters was used for analysis. The median checklist score in the control group 18.2 [15.0,20.5 (10.7,25.3)] was not significantly different from that in the intervention group 20.3 [18.3,21.3 (15.0,24.3)] (P = 0.08). Retention of NRP skills and knowledge of was poor: when evaluated by the neonatologist none of the subjects correctly performed all life-saving interventions necessary to pass the checklist. Although only one subject in the intervention group did not use the aid at all, only 26.7% used the aid frequently and none used it extensively. Discussion:, Retention of skills after NRP training was poor. Our study confirms previous findings of poor retention of skills after NRP training: Kaczorowski et al. investigated family medicine trainees and found that none of 44 residents that were retested 6,8 months after an NRP course would have passed the course due to errors in life-saving interventions [1]. Previous research has shown that the presence of a cognitive aid can improve performance in the simulated management of a rare, high stakes scenario: malignant hyperthermia [3]. Our negative findings contrast with this and another previous study [2]. A potential reason for this discrepancy is that the raters in the previous studies were not blinded to group allocation, nor were the rating scales used validated. The infrequent use of the cognitive aid may be the reason that it did not improve performance in. Further research is required to investigate whether cognitive aids can be useful if their use is incorporated into NRP training. Conclusion:, A randomized single-blinded trial found that a cognitive aid did not improve performance at simulated resuscitation, in contrast to previous retrospective and unblended studies. Retention of skills and knowledge after resuscitation training remains an ongoing challenge for medical educators. [source] Revising place-code schemes for humanitarian reliefPROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2007Randall B. Kemp When clear communication about a location, such as a village name, is critical in times of humanitarian intervention, the use of place names can result in ambiguity. A place code system, on the other hand, has potential to reduce confusion and increase information sharing and coordination of relief efforts. This poster explores the possibilities of a place-code scheme revision for humanitarian action. [source] Tagging the tags, Process, observations and analysis of conversations in metatagging at an ASIST interactive poster sessionPROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2007Jennifer E. Graham Results from a 2006 ASIST poster session on tagger's motivations are presented. Researcher's conducted short conversations with conference participants as they viewed the researchers' poster and tagged its contents. Using a content analysis method, researchers' conversations with participants were analyzed. Content analysis revealed six broad themes or "clusters" of interest: 1) General, 2) Observations, 3) Specific Uses/Suggestions, 4) Curricular, 5) Concerns and 6) Opportunities/Potentials. Within those clusters various specific points were ranked by frequency of occurrence. Overall findings indicate the ASIST community is interested in seeing what happens with this phenomenon, but voiced very real concerns about the longevity of tagging, specific uses in scholarly environments, and the effect it will have on annotation, bibliographic, and subject analysis. [source] Automated indexing of the hazardous substances data bankPROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2003Carlo Nuss The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), a factual data file produced and maintained by the Specialized Information Services (SIS) Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), contains over 4600 records on potentially hazardous chemicals. To improve information retrieval from HSDB, SIS has undertaken the development of an automated indexing protocol in collaboration with NLM's Indexing Initiative group. The Indexing Initiative investigates methods whereby automated indexing may partially or completely substitute for human indexing. Three main methodologies are applied: the MetaMap Indexing method, which maps text to concepts in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus; the Trigram Phrase Matching method, which uses character trigrams to match text to Metathesaurus concepts; and a variant of the PubMed Related Citations method to find MeSH terms related to input text. The UMLS concepts generated by the first two methods are mapped to MeSH main headings through the Restrict-to-MeSH algorithm. The resulting MeSH terms are then clustered into a ranked list of recommended indexing terms. The purpose of the poster is to present our experience in applying these automated indexing methodologies to a large data file with highly structured records, a variety of text and data formats, and complex technical and biomedical terminology. [source] AAPA poster and podium presentation scheduleAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S50 2010Article first published online: 9 FEB 2010 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA poster and podium presentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S50 2010Article first published online: 9 FEB 2010 First page of article [source] AAPA poster and podium presentation scheduleAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S48 2009Article first published online: 12 FEB 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA poster and podium presentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S48 2009Article first published online: 12 FEB 200 First page of article [source] AAPA poster and podium presentation scheduleAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S46 2008Article first published online: 6 FEB 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA poster and podium presentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S46 2008Article first published online: 6 FEB 200 First page of article [source] AAPA poster and podium presentation scheduleAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S44 2007Article first published online: 26 FEB 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA poster and podium presentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S44 2007Article first published online: 26 FEB 200 First page of article [source] AAPA poster and podium presentation scheduleAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S42 2006Article first published online: 6 FEB 200 First page of article [source] Abstracts of AAPA poster and podium presentationsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S42 2006Article first published online: 6 FEB 200 First page of article [source] AAPA poster and podium presentation scheduleAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S40 2005Article first published online: 2 FEB 200 First page of article [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||