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Background Pediatric procedural sedation (PPS) has been established worldwide as standard practice for several decades. However, there are no comprehensive guidelines or multi-facility databases of PPS in Japan, and the current status of PPS and PPS-related adverse events is unclear. The objectives of this study were to investigated the current status of PPS and clarify the adverse events and risk factors in Japan. Methods This study was a single-facility, database survey performed at Oita University Hospital from September 2016 to March 2019. Children under 18 years of age who had been kept sedated for medical procedures with intravenous sedatives were enrolled in this study. Adverse events were recorded and defined according to the Quebec Guideline. Results During this study period, PPS was performed for 1,436 consecutive cases. The majority (94%) of the sedatives used were thiamylal alone and ketamine combined. There were a total of 253 adverse events in 233 cases (16.2%), including oxygen desaturation, airway hypersensitivity and vomiting. Patients recovered from respiratory-related adverse events immediately with simple intervention. No patients required endotracheal intubation, and no severe adverse events occurred. Four risk factors (a higher American Society of Anesthesiologists classification, longer procedure time, non-compliance of nil per os status, and no Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification for sedation personnel) were associated with the occurrence of adverse events. Conclusions Adverse events occurred in 16.2% of all PPS cases. Further studies are needed to analyze the serious adverse events and risk factors for PPS in Japan.Blow flies (Calliphoridae) are important medically and economically and are commonly used in forensics as temporal markers in death investigations. While phenotypic traits in adult flies can be sexually dimorphic, sex identification in immatures is difficult. Consequently, little is known about how sex may result in developmental disparities among sexes even though there are indications that they may be important in some instances. Since genetic mechanisms for sex are well studied in model flies and species of agricultural and medical importance, we exploit the sex-specifically spliced genes transformer (tra) and doublesex (dsx) in the sex determination pathway to optimize a sex identification assay for immatures. Using known primer sets for tra and with a novel one for dsx, we develop PCR assays for identifying sex in four forensically relevant Calliphoridae species Lucilia sericata (Meigen), Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann), Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius), and Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) and evaluated their performance. Band detection rates were found to range from 71 to 100%, call rates ranged from 90 to 100%, and no error was found when bands could be called. Such information is informative for purposes of testimony and in preparation for development studies. The developed assays will assist in further differentiating sexually dimorphic differences in development of the Calliphoridae and aid in more accurately estimating insect age when age predictive markers (size, development time, molecular expression) are sexually dimorphic.Case-control sampling is frequently used in genetic association studies to examine the relationship between disease and genetic exposures. Selleckchem Ivacaftor Such designs usually collect extensive information on phenotypes beyond the primary disease, whose associations with the genetic exposures are also of great interest. Because the cases are over-sampled, appropriate analysis of secondary phenotypes should take into account this biased sampling design. We previously introduced a weighting-based estimator for appropriate secondary analysis, but have not thoroughly explored its statistical properties. In this article, we revisit our previous estimator to offer new insights and methodological extensions. Specifically, we extend our previous estimator and construct its more general form based on generalized least squares (GLS). Such an extension allows us to connect the GLS estimator with the generalized method of moments and motivates a new specification test designed to assess the adequacy of the disease model or the weights. The specification test statistic measures the weighted discrepancy between the case and control subsample estimators, and asymptotically follows a central Chi-squared distribution under correct disease model specification. We illustrate the GLS estimator and specification test using a case-control sample of peripheral arterial disease, and use simulations to further shed light on the operating characteristics of the specification test.Background Chronic pain among adolescents is common but effective interventions applicable in a school setting are rare. Person-centred care (PCC) is a key factor in improving health by engaging persons as partners in their own care. Methods In this randomized controlled trial, a total of 98 adolescents in secondary school or upper secondary school (aged 14 - 21 years) with chronic pain were randomly assigned to a PCC intervention or standard school healthcare. In the intervention group a pain management programme, based on a PCC approach, comprising four face-to-face sessions with a school nurse over a period of 5 weeks was added to standard school healthcare. The main outcome measure was self-efficacy in daily activities (SEDA scale) and rating scales for pain intensity and pain impact were used as secondary outcome measures. Results At the follow-up, no significant differences were found between the groups in the SEDA scale (p = .608) or in the rating scales for pain intensity (p = .261) and pain impact (p = .836). In the sub-group analysis, a significant improvement in the SEDA scale was detected at the secondary school in favour of the PCC intervention group (p = .021). Conclusion In this pain management programme based on a PCC approach, we found no effect in the total sample, but the programme showed promising results to improve self-efficacy in daily activities among adolescents at secondary school. Significance This study evaluates the effects of a pain management programme based on a PCC approach in a school setting addressing adolescents at upper secondary and secondary schools with chronic pain. No overall effects were shown, but results illustrate that the intervention improved self-efficacy in adolescents at secondary school. Implementation of a PCC approach in a school setting may have the potential to improve self-efficacy in daily activities for adolescents with chronic pain at secondary school.
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