Timing of discharge

At the time of discharge, all infants were placed in the homes of relatives or foster parents. In the State of California, a child born withdrawing from drugs or alcohol is considered to be abused and must be reported to child protection agencies (Los Angeles County 1982). Therefore, all the infants reported in this paper... 

PTCA offered a different strategy to obtain vessel patency. Success rates were greater than 90% with low rates of bleeding and mortality [41, 42]. This was seen with both low in-hospital and 6 month mortality and reinfarction rate compared to thrombolysis (5.1% versus 12% p = 0.02 and 8.5% versus 16.8% p = 0.02, respectively) [43]. While there was no immediate benefit on ejection fraction, a similar study comparing PTCA with streptokinase showed a significant improvement in LVEF at the time of discharge with early PTCA (51 11 versus 45 12 = 0.004) [44]. 

Until 1846 all attempts to develop a satisfactory fully self-contained cartridge shared a serious disadvantage. None of them effectively sealed the chamber at the time of discharge and consequently there was a rearward escape of gas resulting in a reduction in the efficiency of the system. This problem was solved by the introduction of the metallic cartridge case which momentarily expands during the discharge process and seals the chamber. 

Until now there have been very limited data on the use of hypothermia in moderate stroke. Naritomi and co-workers reported their findings of seven patients treated with hypothermia within the first 6 h after stroke onset (54). Inclusion criteria for this study were embolic occlusion of the MCA proven with angiography or by Doppler ultrasound. The treatment protocol was similar to the others mentioned in the preceding. Six of the seven patients in this group were able to walk without support at the time of discharge. All of these six patients had either a small infarction or infarction without any mass effect on CT during or after hypothermic therapy. 

The results of our study focusing on antidepressant dosing at the time of discharge tend to corroborate previous evidence that African American patients need lower doses of TCAs than do Caucasian patients. Results are more equivocal with respect to our study of African American and Caucasian patients taking SSRIs. However, when weight is taken into consideration, it is found that African Americans might need lower doses of SSRIs compared with Caucasians. 

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