Acta paediatrica
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Impact of repeated lifestyle counselling in an atherosclerosis prevention trial on parental smoking and children's exposure to tobacco smoke.
To determine whether repeated infancy-onset lifestyle counselling alters parental smoking and children's exposure to tobacco smoke. ⋯ Participation in the atherosclerosis prevention trial slightly decreased smoking among the intervention and control parents. However, counselling led to no differences in parental smoking between the two groups, or in exposure of the intervention and control children to tobacco smoke. This study suggests that more detailed and targeted intervention is required to achieve a significant effect on children's tobacco smoke exposure.
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Biography Historical Article
Emil Adolf von Behring and serum therapy for diphtheria.
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To analyse incidences and find risk groups in children hospitalized with hand injuries in a national retrospective study. ⋯ The number of children with hand injuries admitted to hospitals in Sweden increased annually. Analyses of causes behind the increase are important to counter this trend.
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Clinical Trial
Dexamethasone reduces reintubation rate due to postextubation stridor in a high-risk paediatric population.
To study the effect of dexamethasone on postextubation stridor (PS) incidence and reintubation rate due to PS in a high-risk paediatric intensive care population. ⋯ The risk of postextubation stridor is relatively high in the group of children aged between 4 wk and 6 y with intubation exceeding 24 h. We found dexamethasone to be effective in preventing reintubation due to postextubation stridor in this paediatric high-risk group.