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E Feder

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PubMed1987

Warm tub bath during delivery.

In a prospective study, 88 women bathed in a warm tub bath for 1/2-2 hours during first stage labor after a strictly normal pregnancy, ending with spontaneous onset of labor at term. A control group consisted of 72 women fulfilling the same criteria of normality during pregnancy and labor, but who did not want to take a warm tub bath during labor. Apart from the bath, the two groups followed the usual obstetric procedures of the Department. The cervical dilatation in the "bath group" was 2 1/2 cm/h compared with 1 1/4 cm/h in the "control group". Mean pain score in the bath group was higher at the start of the study, before the bath, and they experienced a pain relief during bath which was not observed in the control group. This difference may be due to bias. The use of morfica and the need for stimulation of labor contractions were both twice as high in the control group, but this difference was not significant. No differences were observed with regard to operative delivery, vaginal or perineal laceration or in bleeding during labor or postpartum. The total duration of labor was the same in the two groups and no differences in neonatal condition were observed. The bacterial contamination of the bath water was insignificant and there were no significant febrile episodes post partum.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Plundering the poor: the role of the World Bank in the Third World.

The World Bank, the most important so-called development assistance agency, annually dispenses billions of dollars to Third World governments, ostensibly to "develop" their economics through a variety of loan projects. But even a superficial analysis reveals that the Bank is the perfect mechanism to help (i.e., subsidize) the large transnational corporations from the industrial countries to expand their industrial, commercial, and financial activities in the Third World, at the expense of the latter and particularly at the expense of the rural and urban proletariat. This article discusses Cheryl Payer's recent book, The World Bank: A Critical Analysis, in which she analyzes the Bank's role in the Third World and sets forth the major reasons why poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, as well as unemployment, and all the adverse social phenomena associated with them, are on the increase.

Developing Countries↗
PubMed1981

The deterioration of the food situation in the Third World and the capitalist system.

Hunger and malnutrition are today associated with the capitalist system. The evidence points to a further deterioration of the food situation in the Third World in the foreseeable future, as a result of massive capital and technology transfers from the rich capitalist countries to the underdeveloped agricultures operated by trans-national concerns or private investors, with the active support of development assistance agencies such as the World Bank. Contrary to the superficial predictions of the World Bank, for example, poverty is bound to increase and the purchasing power of the masses must decline. Particular attention must be paid to the supply of staple foods and the proletariat. This is threatened by a variety of factors, attributable to the operation of the capitalist system. Among them are the senseless waste of Third World resources caused by the foreign investors' insatiable thirst for the quick repatriation of super-profits and the increasing orientation of Third World agricultures toward high-value or export crops (which are usually the same), an orientation which is imposed upon them by the industrial countries' agricultural development strategies. Even self-sufficiency programs for more staple foods, such as the ill-reputed Green Revolution, predictably cannot be of long duration.

Agriculture↗
PubMed1980

Operative treatment of TGA: comparison of Senning's and Mustard's operation in patients under 2 years.

Sixty-one patients with simple TGA operated on below 2 years of age using atrial inversion techniques were reported. The results of 27 Senning versus 34 Mustard procedures were compared. Postoperative observation time averaged 32 months after the Mustard operation and 12 months after the Senning operation. Early mortality rate was 3% (one patient) in the Mustard group and 7.4% (two patients) after the Senning operation. Sinus rhythm persisted in 20 out of 27 Senning patients and in 30 out of 34 Mustard patients. No baffle obstruction has been registered. Operation results and patient follow-up so far do not favor one technique. The Senning operation rarely requires patch material. Therefore, growth of the atria may be less disturbed.

Cardiac Catheterization↗
PubMed1979

Evaluation of the participation of parietal peritoneum in dialysis: physiological, morphological and pharmacological data.

Bidirectional fluxes of Na+, K+ and Ca++ were estimated under in vitro conditions through isolated patches of rat peritoneal membranes (parietal and visceral). Morphological (TEM) and functional (changes in fluxes) data are presented to show that mesothelium lining the parietal peritoneum forms a barrier than limits diffusion of ions across this membrane. In addition, it was found that Furosemide and nitroprusside change the permeability of the mesothelium for sodium or potassium, respectively.

Animals↗
PubMed1978

[External interference of cardiac pacemakers (author's transl)].

The pacemaker patient is faced with potential origins of interference to the pacemaker function in his daily life, at his working place and during medical-therapeutic interventions. Technical faults in the electronic circuit induced by external sources can be neglected. Malfunctions of synchronized cardiac pacemakers may occur in the presence of electrical signals similar to the intracardiac ECG (e.g. nerve stimulators) or by the influence of high energy electrical field (e.g. pulsed electromagnetic fields). Technical improvements like metalshielding of the unit, electronic filtering components and automatic conversion to fixed rate stimulation increase the reliability to a high degree.

Activities of Daily Living↗