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Spring 2013

Garbacea, Ioana

Preeclampsia (PE) is the leading cause of maternal death in developing countries. PE is defined as hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation. The only curative treatment is placental delivery. Evidence suggests that placental vasculature is disturbed with shallow invasion of...

Spring 2014

Jivraj, Jamil

Participatory research (PR) is a research approach which involves partnerships between researchers and those affected by the issues under study. These partnerships lead to the production of research that is relevant and applicable to those involved in the process. Despite the potential value of...

Spring 2016

O'Grady,KathleenM

Children with obstetrical brachial plexus injuries may experience difficulties in some or all functional domains defined under the International Classification of Function. It can result in partial or complete paralysis of the arm. Secondary complications may include limb length discrepancy, and...

Fall 2021

Sirajee, Reshma

Background Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Vertical transmission is the primary mode of HIV acquisition among infants. Although successful interventions have reduced vertical transmission to less than <2.9% in low-to-middle income countries...

Fall 2014

Ghotra, Satvinder K

The incidence of pediatric stroke has risen to >3.0/100,000. Neurological deficits are witnessed in 70-75% of survivors of pediatric stroke and may influence their health related quality of life (HRQL). A cross sectional study was conducted to evaluate the HRQL of pediatric stroke survivors....

Fall 2020

Johnson, Peter A.

Every year, 13-26 million newborn infants require immediate respiratory support and 1-2 million require extensive resuscitation involving critical interventions, such as chest compressions and epinephrine administration. For these infants, heart rate (HR) is the most sensitive indicator to guide...

Fall 2019

Bhogal, Jagmeet

Respiratory failure is common in critically ill neonates, with refractory cases often needing high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). Volume guarantee mode has been added to some HFOV ventilators for theoretical better maintenance of normocapnia. There is little information on the systemic...

Spring 2020

Patel, Sparsh

Extensive neonatal resuscitation that involves chest compressions is an uncommon event impacting approximately 0.1% of term newborns, and up to 15% of preterm newborns. Despite best resuscitation efforts birth asphyxia results in approximately one million deaths annually worldwide. Neonatal...

Fall 2019

Law, Brenda Hiu Yan

Approximately 10% of infants will require resuscitation at birth. Resuscitations are performed by nurses, physicians, midwives, and other Health Care Providers (HCPs), and include tasks such as vital signs monitoring and mask ventilation. Rarely, more advanced skills such as endotracheal...

Fall 2016

Przyslupski, Ann-Marie T

Hypoxic-ischemic brain damage (HIBD) is still of major concern in the neonatal period, resulting in chronic neurological sequelae stemming from damage to the term newborn brain. Full-body and focal-head cooling within 6 hours of birth have proven neuroprotective in human newborns and various...