Second Edition Of Guidelines Research Articles

A convenience sampling questionnaire survey of the current status of diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis in China in 2018

Objective: To further understand the current status of diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis in China, the implementation of guideline in different levels of hospitals, and the need for continuing education in endometriosis among primary doctors. Methods: The survey was conducted in the form of convenience sampling questionnaire among the Wechat public platform. The doctors were free to participate in the investigation without any reward. All questions answered were assessed as valid questionnaire. The datas were collected on the questionnaire network platform and analyzed by SPSS 19.0. Results: Totally 1 494 valid questionnaires were collected in this survey. 60.17% (899/1 494) of them were from tertiary hospital, and 32.60% (487/1 494) were from grade two hospital. Only the hospitals where 9.97% (149/1 494) participants based opened the specialist clinic for endometriosis. 70.35% (1 051/1 494) of participants said they had read the second edition of guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis which published in 2015. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) staging system was adopted in the clinical practices of only 25.03% (374/1 494) participants. And 18.74% (280/1 494) participants used the endometriosis fertility index (EFI) scoring during the laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis with infertility. 45.18% (675/1 494) of participants said they had not attended any academic conference on endometriosis in the past six months. 64.46% (963/1 494) of the participants believed their diagnosis and treatment in practice should be improved and standardized. 87.15% (1 302/1 494) of the participants expressed the hope that more conferences or workshops on endometriosis would be held. Conclusions: At presents, the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis in China has been greatly improved, but the implementation of guidelines and the new concept is still a long-term job. The specialist clinic are held only in a few hospitals. It's the expectation and voice of primary doctors to the association to organize the more academic congresses on endometriosis.

Perioperative Care for Pediatric Patients With Penetrating Brain Injury: A Review.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) continues to be the leading cause of death and acquired disability in young children and adolescents, due to blunt or penetrating trauma, the latter being less common but more lethal. Penetrating brain injury (PBI) has not been studied extensively, mainly reported as case reports or case series, due to the assumption that both types of brain injury have common pathophysiology and consequently common management. However, recommendations and guidelines for the management of PBI differ from those of blunt TBI in regards to neuroimaging, intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring, and surgical management including those pertaining to vascular injury. PBI was one of the exclusion criteria in the second edition of guidelines for the acute medical management of severe TBI in infants, children, and adolescents that was published in 2012 (it is referred to as "pediatric guidelines" in this review). Many reviews of TBI do not differentiate between the mechanisms of injury. We present an overview of PBI, its presenting features, epidemiology, and causes as well as an analysis of case series and the conclusions that may be drawn from those and other studies. More clinical trials specific to penetrating head injuries in children, focusing mainly on pathophysiology and management, are needed. The term PBI is specific to penetrating injury only, whereas TBI, a more inclusive term, describes mainly, but not only, blunt injury.

Drug Therapy for Pain Diseases：Selection of Analgesics Based on “Second Edition of Guidelines for the Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain”

Drug Therapy for Pain Diseases：Selection of Analgesics Based on “Second Edition of Guidelines for the Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain”

ASCE Sixth Congress on Forensic Engineering

The Sixth Congress on Forensic Engineering will take place in San Francisco from October 31 to November 3, 2012. The three-day technical program is designed with four concurrent technical tracks, committee meetings, panel discussions, and workshops. More than 200 technical papers will be presented. The opening keynote speaker will be Raymond “Paul” Giroux, P.E., M.ASCE, who will present “The Building of the Golden Gate Bridge.” Giroux is chair of this year’s 75th anniversary celebration of the opening of the city’s signature bridge. The Forensic Engineering Congresses have been organized by the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) every 3 years since 1997. They are recognized internationally as a premier event for the forensic civil engineering community. This year’s location is particularly inviting because San Francisco is a major destination for tourism. In conjunction with the Congress, several tours are planned to enhance the Congress theme, “Gateway to a Safer Tomorrow.” These include a project tour of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, one of the largest construction projects currently under way in the United States; a tour of the historic and elegant base-isolated San Francisco City Hall building; an exclusive evening event at the California Academy of Sciences, including a tour of the innovative award-winning museum designed by Renzo Piano; and a postconference tour of California’s wine country. Several new editions of TCFE publications are expected to become available at the time of the Congress. The second edition of Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering—Structural, Foundation and Geoenvironmental is a product of the TCFE Education Committee. The TCFE Forensic Practices Committee will publish the second edition of Guidelines for Forensic Engineering Practice. A third publication, Guidelines for Failure Investigation, 2nd Ed., will be presented by the TCFE Forensic Investigation Committee. Authors will be available to discuss the content of these new publications. Opportunities will also be provided to attend TCFE committee meetings and to become committee members. Congress attendees are expected to include forensic engineers, civil engineers, architects and architectural engineers, building owners and managers, attorneys, educators, and invited guests. Registrants will benefit from an exchange of practices and procedures, educational opportunities, dissemination of information, and opportunities for publishing and networking. Professional development credits will be available. For further information, visit the Congress website at www.asce .org/forensiccongress.

Guidelines for Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Second Edition

Among the various disorders manifesting dementia, gait disturbance, and urinary incontinence in the elderly population, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is becoming of great importance. After the publication of the first edition of the Guidelines for Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in 2004 (the English version was published in 2008), clinical awareness of iNPH has risen dramatically, and the number of shunt surgeries has increased rapidly across Japan. Clinical and basic research on iNPH has increased significantly, and more high-level evidence has since been generated. The second edition of the Japanese Guidelines was thus published in July 2011, to provide a series of timely evidence-based recommendations related to iNPH. The revision of the Guidelines has been undertaken by a multidisciplinary expert working group of the Japanese Society of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in conjunction with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare research project on "Studies on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus." This English version of the second edition of the Guidelines was made to share these ideas with the international community and to promote international research on iNPH.

World association for the advancement of veterinary parasitology (WAAVP): Second edition of guidelines for evaluating the efficacy of anthelmintics in swine

Guidelines are provided for evaluating the efficacy of anthelmintics in swine which, in conjunction with other sets of guidance such as those of the International Cooperation on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products (VICH GL7 and VICH GL16), should encourage the adoption of uniform registration requirements globally. Testing of efficacy should be carried out according to the principles of "Good Clinical Practice" (VICH GL9, 2000). Data obtained according to these guidelines should be internationally acceptable for the registration of anthelmintics for swine. Further, the use of the guidelines should expedite development, government review, and approval of anthelmintics for swine, as well as contribute towards reducing costs and the number of experimental animals used for drug testing.

Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of multiple myeloma 2005

In 2001, guidelines for the diagnosis and management of myeloma were published by the Guidelines Working Group of the UK Myeloma Forum (UKMF) on behalf of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) (UK Myeloma Forum; British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2001). That same year, the second edition of guidelines prepared by the Nordic Myeloma Study Group (NMSG) in 1995 was issued (in the Scandinavian languages; http:// www.myeloma-nordic.org). As both sets of guidelines were intended to be evidence based, it was reassuring to note that the recommendations were similar. Subsequently, informal contact between members of the two groups led to the decision to prepare these common, updated guidelines. These revised and updated guidelines include new sections on imaging and the management of skeletal disease, cover new developments in disease classification and staging and the use of new therapeutic approaches, such as thalidomide, bortezomib and reduced-intensity allogeneic transplantation. The guidelines are presented in specific sections as follows:

World association for the advancement of veterinary parasitology (WAAVP): second edition of guidelines for evaluating the efficacy of equine anthelmintics

These guidelines have been designed to assist in the planning, operation and interpretation of studies which would serve to assess the efficacy of drugs against internal parasites of horses. Although the term anthelmintic is used in the title and text, these guidelines include studies on drug efficacy against larvae of horse bot flies, Gasterophilus spp., which are non-helminth parasites commonly occurring in the stomach of horses. The advantages, disadvantages and application of critical and controlled tests are presented. Information is also provided on selection of animals, housing, feed, dose titration, confirmatory and clinical trials, record keeping and necropsy procedures. These guidelines should assist both investigators and registration authorities in the evaluation of compounds using comparable and standard procedures with the minimum number of animals.

Assessment of the Health Hazard Associated with the Use of Smoke Tubes in Healthcare Facilities

Abstract Of particular concern to facilities engineers and healthcare workers is the evaluation of air flow patterns in or near a respiratory isolation room and negative pressure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the use of smoke tubes for this purpose in the second edition of Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities, 1994. This article provides an assessment of the potential for patient and healthcare worker exposure to hazardous levels of acid mist when smoke tubes are used to monitor negative pressure. Three brands of smoke tubes (Sensidyne, MSA, and Drager) were initially investigated. In a bench-top experiment, air was pushed in 30-ml increments through a smoke tube and into 10 ml of deionized water in a scintillation vial. The hydrogen ion concentration of the solution was measured and the generation rate of acid mist was estimated to be 3.3 mg per 30-ml squeeze. The quantity of hydrochloric acid (9.8 mg) from three ...

World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (W.A.A.V.P.) second edition of guidelines for evaluating the efficacy of anthelmintics in ruminants (bovine, ovine, caprine)

The first edition of the W.A.A.V.P. anthelmintic guidelines for ruminants was published in 1982. Since then improved parasitological procedures have been developed, new therapeutic and prophylactic products have appeared requiring different test methods, and registration authorities are requesting more detailed record keeping and data validation. This second edition addresses these developments and fulfills the original goal of publishing guidelines for high quality, scientifically valid testing standards for trials that would be accepted as proof of efficacy by registration authorities regardless of country of origin. This second edition includes updated guidance on standard parasitological procedures, dose titration, dose confirmation and clinical trials, and provides guidelines for evaluating products for efficacy against anthelmintic resistant parasites, persistence of activity and prophylactic activity. Tests for efficacy against nematodes, trematodes and cestodes are included.

Guidelines vs the Legal Standard of Care and Screening for Polycythemia

To the Editor.— Dr David Reynolds1 appropriately applauds policy of the American Academy of Pediatrics to accompany committee statements with a paragraph recognizing that alternative strategies may be appropriate and that the opinions expressed do not constitute standards of medical care. He states that he was unable to find a similar statement in the second edition of Guidelines for Perinatal Care.2 Both the second and third editions1 contain such a statement which says, in part, on page ii: