scholarly journals Glutamine and Glutamate Reference Intervals as a Clinical Tool to Detect Training Intolerance During Training and Overtraining

10.5772/26240 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Hohl ◽  
Lzaro Alessandro Soares Nunes ◽  
Rafael Alkmin ◽  
Ren Brenzikofer ◽  
Rodrigo Perroni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reference Intervals ◽  
Clinical Tool

Ethnogeriatrics: Development and Application of the Cohort Analysis Tool

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Melen McBride
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Significant Factors

Ethnogeriatrics is an evolving specialty in geriatric care that focuses on the health and aging issues in the context of culture for older adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This article is an introduction to ethnogeriatrics for healthcare professionals including speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This article focuses on significant factors that contributed to the development of ethnogeriatrics, definitions of some key concepts in ethnogeriatrics, introduces cohort analysis as a teaching and clinical tool, and presents applications for speech-language pathology with recommendations for use of cohort analysis in practice, teaching, and research activities.

Reliability of the Conversational Interaction Coding Form When Applied to Natural Conversation of Individuals With Aphasia

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Pozzolo Coote ◽  
Jane Pimentel
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Interobserver Reliability ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Conversational Interaction ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Aphasia Therapy ◽  
Natural Conversation ◽  
Point To Point

Purpose: Development of valid and reliable outcome tools to document social approaches to aphasia therapy and to determine best practice is imperative. The aim of this study is to determine whether the Conversational Interaction Coding Form (CICF; Pimentel & Algeo, 2009) can be applied reliably to the natural conversation of individuals with aphasia in a group setting. Method: Eleven graduate students participated in this study. During a 90-minute training session, participants reviewed and practiced coding with the CICF. Then participants independently completed the CICF using video recordings of individuals with non-fluent and fluent aphasia participating in an aphasia group. Interobserver reliability was computed using matrices representative of the point-to-point agreement or disagreement between each participant's coding and the authors' coding for each measure. Interobserver reliability was defined as 80% or better agreement for each measure. Results: On the whole, the CICF was not applied reliably to the natural conversation of individuals with aphasia in a group setting. Conclusion: In an extensive review of the turns that had high disagreement across participants, the poor reliability was attributed to inadequate rules and definitions and inexperienced coders. Further research is needed to improve the reliability of this potentially useful clinical tool.

Electropalatography as a Research and Clinical Tool

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona E. Gibbon ◽  
Alice Lee
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Tool

Echocardiography in Saanen-goats: Normal findings, reference intervals in awake goats, and the effect of general anesthesia

2011 ◽  
Vol 153 (12) ◽  
pp. 553-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Steininger ◽  
A.-S. J. Berli ◽  
R. Jud ◽  
C. C. Schwarzwald
Keyword(s):  
General Anesthesia ◽  
Reference Intervals

Adrenal vein catecholamine levels and ratios: reference intervals derived from patients with primary aldosteronism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam O'Toole ◽  
Candy Sze ◽  
Kent Tirador ◽  
Scott Akker ◽  
Matthew Matson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Aldosteronism ◽  
Reference Intervals ◽  
Adrenal Vein ◽  
Catecholamine Levels

Developments in 3D Echocardiography

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Zamorano ◽  
Keyword(s):  
3D Echocardiography ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
3D Images ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
2D Echocardiography ◽  
Automated Quantification ◽  
Heart Cycle ◽  
Functional Mechanisms ◽  
Full Volume

3D echocardiography (3DE) will gain increasing acceptance as a routine clinical tool as the technology evolves due to advances in technology and computer processing power. Images obtained from 3DE provide more accurate assessment of complex cardiac anatomy and sophisticated functional mechanisms compared with conventional 2D echocardiography (2DE), and are comparable to those achieved with magnetic resonance imaging. Many of the limitations associated with the early iterations of 3DE prevented their widespread clinical application. However, recent significant improvements in transducer and post-processing software technologies have addressed many of these issues. Furthermore, the most recent advances in the ability to image the entire heart in realtime and fully automated quantification have poised 3DE to become more ubiquitous in clinical routine. Realtime 3DE (RT3DE) systems offer further improvements in the diagnostic and treatment planning capabilities of cardiac ultrasound. Innovations such as the ability to acquire non-stitched, realtime, full-volume 3D images of the heart in a single heart cycle promise to overcome some of the current limitations of current RT3DE systems, which acquire images over four to seven cardiac cycles, with the need for gating and the potential for stitch artefacts.

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