Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to D Lubin.
A case of a premature infant in whom recurrent pneumothorax was successfully treated by injection of fibrin glue into the pleural cavity through the chest tube is reported. Pleurodesis with fibrin glue was found to be both safe and effective.
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We describe three infants in whom hypertrophy of the tongue developed while they were receiving beclomethasone inhalation therapy. The condition resolved after cessation of treatment, an outcome suggesting that tongue hypertrophy is a possible side effect of this therapy.
The antibody titers of 41 premature infants receiving inactivated poliovirus vaccine at 2 months of age (control group) were compared with titers of 39 infants receiving an additional dose at 5 to 10 days of age (study group). At 1 month of age 97.4% of the study group but only 70.8% of the control group had protective antibodies against poliovirus 3 (p < 0.001).
A multiphase intervention trial based on education, implementation of criteria, and restriction, aimed at modifying the established clinical policy of mandatory preoperative screening for coagulation abnormalities, was carried out on five surgical wards of a general hospital. The education period did not influence the ordering of partial thromboplastin time tests, despite a significant posteducational change in surgeons' attitudes. In contrast, administrative restriction of coagulation test orders led to a 50% decline on four of the five study wards. We conclude that an educational intervention followed by administrative restriction may be considered an acceptable means of overcoming clinician reluctance to change well-established but redundant clinical policy.
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The role of oropharyngeal stimulation (in the form of chewing) on the frequency of ruminating by institutionalized mentally retarded persons was examined. Chewing before meals reduced the rate of postmeal ruminating. Several procedures that might produce clinically significant decreases in ruminating were suggested.
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