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Filter by:An increasingly physical inactive lifestyle in the Western World has led to a higher number of lifestyle -related diseases. The consequences are now already present in childhood with an increased prevalence of overweight, obesity, and diabetes. Inactivity is also accompanied by cardiovascular iseases and is also thought to be associated with an increased incidence of nearsightedness (myopia). Myopia is the most frequent eye disease globally, and causes severe personal and societal expenses and may additionally lead to secondary eye disorders such as retinal detachment, glaucoma, and cataract. The retina is the only place in the human body where it is possible to directly inspect the blood vessels (microvasculature). Photography of the eye background allows a noninvasive examination of the retinal structure in which it is possible to make measurements on the retinal blood vessels. It is well known that early vascular chances can be detected with this method and that there are correlation between these changes and systemic diseases, such as hypertension, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. This study is a new subproject in The Childhood Health, Activity, and Motor Performance School (CHAMPS) Study Denmark, also known as the Svendborg Project. The project has a well-defined cohort with originally 1515 school students who since 2007 have been divided into two groups: schools with extra exercise during school hours and matched traditional schools. CHAMPS-DK aims to investigate the effect of increased physical activity on current and future health of children and adolescents. Thanks to this unique child cohort it is possible to investigate the correlation between physical activity, myopia and retinal vascular diameters in a large group of Danish schoolchildren. We want to study the degree and reversibility of physical activity and its effect on the development of myopia and retinal blood vessel changes. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about the correlation between physical activity and retinal vascular diameters in children. Furthermore, it is still unclear whether physical activity can prevent the development of myopia; such a realization could have far-reaching consequences in form of a modified approach to the necessity for exercise and, furthermore, potentially a significant socio-economic benefit.
Investigators designed a prospective randomized controlled study to compare the long-axis/in-plane and short-axis/out-of-plane methods during the ultrasound-guided arterial catheterization in pediatric patients younger than 5 years old.
The purpose of this study is to compare the differences in central venous catheter insertion time, success rate, and complication between thin-wall needle technique and catheter-over-the-needle technique for central venous catheterization in children.
Overweight and obese (OV/OB) children with asthma are at-risk for particularly poor health outcomes including poor asthma control, higher risk of asthma-related symptoms, and decreased quality of life. Weight loss reduces asthma symptoms, improves lung function, and increases quality of life among OV/OB adults with asthma. Little research has examined the impact of weight loss on asthma outcomes in OV/OB youth, and there is little research examining weight management interventions in OV/OB children with asthma. Behavioral family-based lifestyle interventions are successful in producing weight loss in children. To our knowledge, however, there has been no systematic effort to examine the impact of these interventions on weight status and asthma outcomes, nor has there been an effort to tailor these programs to the specific needs of OV/OB children with asthma. The aims of this study are to develop and test the Childhood Health and Asthma Management Program (CHAMP), a behavioral family-based lifestyle intervention that is community-based to promote successful weight and asthma management in OV/OB children with asthma. The investigators propose to develop an intervention based on a previously developed behavioral family-based lifestyle intervention that was community-based and produced positive long term weight status changes in OV/OB children and tailor it for OV/OB children with asthma to create CHAMP. CHAMP will include asthma education and targeting unique barriers to weight management in OV/OB children with asthma. A focus group will be conducted with OV/OB children with asthma, ages 6-12, and their parent(s). Then a pilot randomized controlled trial of the CHAMP intervention with 32 OV/OB children with asthma, ages 6-12 years, and their parent(s). Families will be randomly assigned to CHAMP or a health education group. The investigators hypothesize that participants in CHAMP will have more effective weight and asthma management and child asthma outcomes compared to those in the general education group.
To evaluate the efficacy of anti-IgE (Omalizumab/Xolair) in children with severe eczema.
The purpose of this study is to define if intravenous paracetamol may improve analgesia and outcome in pediatric surgical patients treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) postoperatively. Hypothesis: intravenous paracetamol in a dose 60 mg/kg/24 h IV, given in addition to IV ketoprofen (4,5 mg/kg/24h), improves analgesia and physical recovery in children and adolescents following surgery.
The purpose of this study is to determine how Bispectral index (BIS) and Entropy EEG monitors agree between themselves and with end-tidal concentration of sevoflurane (ETsevo) in relationship with the age in the pediatric surgery setting. Bispectral index (BIS) and Entropy EEG monitors performance and utility is well established in adult general anesthesia. Their utility is yet undefined in the pediatric population as age seems to affect their ability to track the cerebral hypnotic state in children.
1. Appreciation of preoperative anxiety in children is important for the anesthesiologist. 2. Several factors defined to effect the anxiety levels preoperatively in children such as , age, previous medical encounters , education level and parental anxiety. 3. This information was tested for Turkish children during the preoperative anesthetic evaluation.
Children lose heat under general anaesthesia, thus temperature is routinely monitored during anaesthesia for all but the shortest cases, and active warming can be used to prevent hypothermia and its resulting complications. Temperature can be measured at several sites dependent on the type of surgery and patient factors. Previously a temperature probe has been sited in the lower third of the oesophagus (swallowing tube) but it is difficult to accurately place this without an X-Ray. Consequently it is more common to use a temperature probe placed in the nasopharynx (where the nose and throat meet), when the child is anaesthetised. However the investigators do not know if the temperature in the nasopharynx correlates well with the real core temperature or not.This prospective, unblinded, agreement study will seek to find an agreement of 2 methods to measure temperature in children undergoing general anaesthesia with a breathing tube that has a leak.
The investigators hypothesize that use of an educational story with pictures illustrating overnight sleep study procedure (also called polysomnography or PSG)accompanied by simple narrative will be a cost-effective, readily accepted intervention that will contribute to successful completion of sleep studies among children with disabilities. Children who have been referred for a clinical sleep study at Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) will be enrolled and randomized to either recieve usual care (discussion of polysomnography with referring clinicians) or educational story intervention. Both groups of participants will be asked to complete questionnaries before and after the sleep study. Set-up for the sleep study will be videotaped so that behavior of the child can be evaluated. The investigators will evaluate whether successful study completion differs between the two groups.