Method: A review of research and policy identified three significant themes relating to restraint: effects of restraint on the family, professional considerations; ethical and legal implications.
Results: This paper through an analysis of the literature and policy demonstrates that paediatric restraint is a contentious issue in children’s oncology nursing and that while essential in many cases, requires careful consideration. Alternatives to restraint should always be considered to minimise the effect upon child and family.
Conclusions: A number of key issues are highlighted in this paper which would be useful. Most importantly the notion of Quisinostat supplier children’s rights, negotiation and partnership with
children and their families and the nurses responsibility in relation to the law and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Professional bodies such as the Royal College of Nursing have attempted to offer guidance in this area; the key message is that restraint should always be the last option; it is our opinion LY3023414 manufacturer that often it is the first. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Multi-walled carbon nantubes (MWCNTs) filled polypropylene (PP) composites were prepared by a corotating intermeshing twin screw extruder. To improve the dispersion of MWCNTs, the surface of MWCNT was modified with 1,10-diaminodecane,
and maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (MA-g-PP) was used as a compatibilizer. Micrographs of well dispersed functionalized MWCNTs (diamine-MWCNT) were observed due to the reaction between MA-g-PP and diamine-MWCNT in PP/MA-g-PP/diamine-MWCNTs composites. The different behaviors in crystallization and melting temperatures of PP/MA-g-PP/diamine-MWCNTs
composite were observed compared to PP and PP/neat-MWCNT. Especially, the decomposition temperature of the composite was increased by 50 degrees C compared to PP. PP/MA-g-PP/diamine-MWCNTs composite showed the highest complex viscosity. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 111: 1028-1033, 2009″
“Study Design. Normal rotation was evaluated 17DMAG in a group of 40 asymptomatic adults.
Objective. To determine the normal rotational limits of C1-C2 in adults and define when a rotatory fixation occurs in the limits of normality or in subluxation. The term subluxation should be used only when C1-C2 is rotated beyond normal limits.
Summary of Background Data. Concepts about rotatory fixation were established by accepting that it may occur within the limits of normal range of motion. Although nowadays CT is the current image method used to evaluate any case of torticollis, no study has been performed in adult population on what really normal rotation look like in CT scans.
Methods. The study included the measurement of the rotational movement of the neck and a CT scan study of the articular processes of C1-C2 in maximal, left and right, active rotation.