Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J E Jiménez.
Carbamazepine, a drug used for the treatment of epilepsy and neuralgias, may exert hazardous effects on the cardiac conduction system. We report such a case of symptomatic brady-arrhythmia occurring in a 43-years-old male while on therapy with carbamazepine. Additionally, a literature review is made of previous cases of carbamazepine-induced sinus mode, AV node and His-Purkinje conduction disturbances.
This study was designed to investigate some writing disorders shown by children who have been taught by different methods of reading and writing. Methods differ in that some emphasize the processes of decoding bottom-up (e.g., syllabic and phonic method) while others stress top-down processes, that is, they put greater emphasis on meaning (e.g., global-natural method). A longitudinal study using a sample of 260 school children was performed. The children were of both sexes from public and private schools and from different socioeconomic backgrounds. It was found that the pupils who learn by a global-natural method make errors that relate more to reproductive aspects of information. In contrast, the pupils who learned by the phonic and syllabic methods made more errors of meaning.
INTRODUCTION: There is a close relationship between mental illness and the decay of global functioning. The level of support and care needed by a person will also depend closely of the level of his or her functioning. The aim of this article is to present the Spanish version of the Basic Every Day Living Schedule (BELS) and its reliability that has been studied on a sample of Spanish population. METHODOLOGY: Once the first translation into Spanish was satisfactory back translated into English, 77 residents in different sheltered homes were assessed by two pair of researchers. For the statistical analysis the Kappa coefficient was used. RESULTS: Kappa mean values for the opportunity scale was 0.791 and 0.743 for the performance scale. CONCLUSION: BELS is an assessment instrument with adequate reliability properties for the purpose for which it was conceived: to assess the basic abilities for the every day living.