Scientific Papers
Outcomes related to dehydration in the pediatric population.
The purpose of this pilot study was twofold: 1) to determine whether there was a statistically significant difference in nursing-sensitive patient outcome ratings from admission to discharge, and 2) to describe nursing interventions used to [...]
Neonatal neurologic damage after dehydration.
Neurologic damage secondary to dehydration occurs in one of two ways; there can be circulatory shock with hypoxic damage, or a hypernatremic state with cerebral hemorrhage and sometimes thrombosis. The shock variety is most often [...]
Reference chart for relative weight change to detect hypernatraemic dehydration.
OBJECTIVE: The validity of the rule of thumb that infants may have a weight loss of 10% in the first days after birth is unknown. We assessed the validity of this and other rules to [...]
Clinical presentation of hypernatremic dehydration in exclusively breast-fed neonates.
OBJECTIVE: To identify the clinical presentation of dehydration related to failure of lactation in exclusively breast-fed term infants. METHOD: A prospective study was performed between January 2000 and June 2003 in Al Qassimi Hospital in [...]