Biomedical subjects

H D Heese

Publications and source records attributed to H D Heese.

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PubMed1979

Serum ferritin estimation in the assessment of iron stores in severe iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy and the response to treatment.

Serum ferritin estimation was used to determine the iron stores in 55 patients with severe iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy. The response to oral or intravenous iron therapy was monitored in 18 of these patients. The results in all cases indicated deficient iron stores. Replenishment of iron stores was significantly greater in those patients treated with parenteral iron. This may be the treatment of choice for severe iron deficiency anaemia during pregnancy.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1978

Oral electrolyte solutions--problems and preparation.

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Drug Compounding↗

PubMed1978

Blood viscosity in the normal newborn baby.

A viscometer was tested and the results were found to be accurate and reproducible for the ranges encountered in neonates. The viscosity was determined in 80 cord blood samples and the mean and 2 standard deviations (2SD) were calculated at each shear rate. Changes in viscosity increased from birth to 12 hours, and then gradually decreased over the next 72 hours. The results are in keeping with the accepted normal values in the newborn.

Blood Viscosity↗

PubMed1978

Haematocrit values and blood viscosity in the newborn infant.

The haematocrit values in 51 babies were studied to observe the possible variations due to the method and time of sampling and to relate these findings to blood viscosity. A good correlation (r = 0,9536) between haematocrit values of warmed heel capillary blood and of central venous samples was found. Prediction of venous value from a known sample of capillary blood can be made using regression lines and 95% confidence limits. The correlation between venous and unwarmed blood samples from the heel is not as good. A central venous haematocrit value of 65% or greater gave a 100% risk of the infant's blood being hyperviscous. Hyperviscosity occurred in 71% of infants with a capillary haematocrit value of 65 - 68% but the figure rose to 81% when the peripheral haematocrit value was 68% or more.

Blood Specimen Collection↗

PubMed1978

The role of community paediatrics in South Africa.

Community paediatrics in South Africa is concerned with helping to identify the factors that retard realization of the full developmental potential of the nation's children. It is also concerned with the removal of such blocking factors. Paediatricians familiar with the orientation and methods of community medicine are suited to this task, which involves: (i) co-operation with all health, education and welfare organizations concerned with child care; (ii) taking part in the education of all child care professionals; (iii) taking part in the planning and organization of child care services; and (iv) being concerned with clinical care, particularly at primary care and rehabilitative levels.

Child↗

PubMed1977

After court.

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Asthma↗

PubMed1977

The perinatal infective environment and infants of very low birth weight.

Evidence of an infective environment was frequently found in infants weighing less than 1 500 g at birth. Bacterial cultures from multiple sites bore no correlation to pus cells in the gastric aspirate or to placental histology. Positive cultures of ear swabs correlated with mortality, as did placental infection. The presence of pus cells in the gastric aspirate was related to histological evidence of placental infection. The duration or rupture of membranes and the serum IgM levels were not significantly associated with other findings.

Bacteria↗

PubMed1977