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Navigational bronchoscopy: overview of technology and practical considerations--new Current Procedural Terminology codes effective 2010.Edell E, Krier-Morrow D Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. edell.eric@mayo.edu Navigational bronchoscopy provides a three-dimensional virtual "roadmap" that enables a physician to maneuver through multiple branches of the bronchial tree to reach targeted lesions in distal regions of the lung. It is designed to be used with a standard bronchoscope to facilitate obtaining tissue samples and for placing radiosurgical or dye markers. This article overviews this technology and the Current Procedural Terminology codes that have been created for its use. Published 5 February 2010 in Chest, 137(2): 450-4. Articles on Linguistics published 3 February 2010: "My child doesn't have a brain injury, he only has a concussion". Pediatrics, 125(2): 327-34. OBJECTIVE: The term "concussion" is frequently used in clinical records to describe a traumatic head injury; however, there are no standard definitions of this term, particularly in how it is used with children. The goals of this study were to examine the clinical correlates of the concussion diagnosis and to identify the factors that lead to the use of this term in a regional pediatric center. METHODS: Medical data were prospectively collected from 434 children with traumatic brain ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Articles on Linguistics published 1 February 2010: Perceptions of the gift relationship in organ and tissue donation: Views of intensivists and donor and recipient coordinators. Soc Sci Med, 70(4): 609-15. The international literature on organ donation and transplantation has drawn attention to the popularity of "gift of life" discourse among pro-donation advocates, transplantation specialists, and within organisations lobbying for improved donation rates to promote the benefits of organ donation among members of the general public. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, gift of life discourse is robust. Aside from attempts to elicit altruism by promoting tissue donation in the public domain, gift ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Articles on Linguistics published 26 January 2010: Blowing the whistle: what do African American adolescents with asthma and their caregivers understand by "wheeze?". J Asthma, 47(1): 26-32. AIMS: To investigate what African American adolescents with asthma and their caregivers understand by "wheeze". METHODS: Caregivers (n = 35) and adolescents (n = 35) were each asked to describe what they understood by "wheeze". Respondents were also shown a video clip of an adolescent wheezing and asked: a) to describe the breathing of the adolescent in the video; and, b) whether the adolescent respondent's breathing had ever been similar to the video-presented symptoms. ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Prosodic changes in aphasic speech: timing. Clin Linguist Phon, 24(2): 155-67. Controversy remains about the impairment of prosody in aphasia, particularly with regard to speech timing. This paper addresses this topic through an analysis of timing in four sets of a common morphological paradigm. The paradigm consisted of a basic form (stem) and two longer derived forms (e.g. zip, zipper, zippering). Normally, vowel durations are shorter in longer derived forms (e.g. zippering) than in the stem (e.g. zip), due to a process called 'initial shortening'. Twelve patients with ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Phonological learning and lexicality of treated stimuli. Clin Linguist Phon, 24(2): 122-40. The purpose was to evaluate the lexicality of treated stimuli relative to phonological learning by preschool children with functional phonological disorders. Four children were paired in a single-subject alternating treatments design that was overlaid on a multiple baseline across subjects design. Within each pair, one child was taught one sound in real words and a second sound in non-words; for the other child of the pair, lexicality was reversed and counterbalanced. The dependent variable was ... [Abstract] [Full-text] English past tense use as a clinical marker in older bilingual children with language impairment. Clin Linguist Phon, 24(2): 101-21. This study compared the use of English past tense in a group of Spanish-English bilingual children with language impairment (BLI) to younger groups of bilinguals with typical and atypical language development reported in an earlier study. Ten children with BLI enrolled in 3rd-6th grade participated. Children supplied 12 regular, 12 irregular, and 12 novel past tense verbs on an elicitation task. The results demonstrated that despite 2.5 years of school exposure, older children with BLI still ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Adult participation in children's word searches: on the use of prompting, hinting, and supplying a model. Clin Linguist Phon, 24(2): 83-100. Although word searching in children is very common, very little is known about how adults support children in the turns following the child's search behaviours, an important topic because of the social, educational, and clinical implications. This study characterizes, in detail, teachers' use of prompting, hinting, and supplying a model. From a classroom dataset of 53 instances, several distinctive patterns emerged. A prompted completion sequence is initiated by a 'word retrieval elicitor' ... [Abstract] [Full-text] Articles on Linguistics published 18 January 2010: What's in a name? Qualitative description revisited. Res Nurs Health, 33(1): 77-84. "Whatever Happened to Qualitative Description?" (Sandelowski, 2000) was written to critique the prevailing tendency in qualitative health research to claim the use of methods that were not actually used and to clarify a methodological approach rarely identified as a distinctive method. The article has generated several misconceptions, most notably that qualitative description requires no interpretation of data. At the root of these misconceptions is the persistent challenge of ... [Abstract] [Full-text] © 2005-2010 Linguistics Research Today. All Rights Reserved. |
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