Biomedical subjects

J P Bahr

Publications and source records attributed to J P Bahr.

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PubMed1986

Computer-aided instruction in perinatal education.

Medicine is a field that requires very extensive education to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functional competence. Often it is necessary for busy people to teach other busy people. Medical lectures may become tedious and repetitive for those who give them as well as an intrusion into their patient care and research time. Students may find it difficult to be in the right place at the right time to take advantage of important lecture material due to their own complex schedules. To work well, education requires a careful match of the student and the educational process. Computer-aided instruction offers some solutions to these and other problems of medical education.

Computer-Assisted Instruction↗

PubMed1981

A scoring system to predict outcome following neonatal seizures.

Ninety-six newborn infants with seizures were scored during the initial hospitalization on abnormality of EEG, neurologic examination, etiology of seizures, length of seizure, type of seizure, and birth weight under or over 1,500 gm. At 3 months, corrected for gestational age, the 80 surviving infants were scored on abnormality of current EEG, neurologic examination, etiology of seizure, presence or absence of seizure since hospital discharge, and birth weight under or over 1,500 gm. At age 10 months, 76 of 77 surviving infants were evaluated with the Gesell Developmental Inventory, physical examination, and neurologic examination. Chi square analysis documented that the scoring system was an accurate predictor of those infants with seizure disorders, mental retardation, and motor dysfunction. The score may assist the clinician in making decisions in regard to anticonvulsant therapy during initial hospitalization or at age 3 months.

Anticonvulsants↗

PubMed1979

The vulvar clinic: an eight-year appraisal.

One thousand forty-three patients made 2,750 visits to the Vulvar Clinic at the Milwaukee County Medical Complex from July, 1970, to July, 1978. This experience is analyzed and the various diseases are grouped in order of frequency. The results shed light on those vulvar problems most likely to be encountered in general office practice and point the way toward future areas of research.

Ambulatory Care Facilities↗

PubMed1978

Temperature dynamics of the fertile chicken egg.

Two thermistor temperature probes were mounted in fertile chicken eggs, one at the position normally occupied by an early embryo and the other in the center of the yolk. Temperature changes were constantly monitored while the eggs were removed from holding refrigerator to incubator, incubator to room temperature, or room temperature to incubator. Computer analysis was used to develop a mathematical model of heat fluxes in the egg. Graphs derived from this model are presented which permit any investigator to predict approximate time and temperature variables under conditions commonly encountered when using the chicken egg in biological research. We found that when the egg is moved from an incubator (38 degrees C) to laboratory bench (25 degrees C), there was a very rapid initial heat loss (over 8 degrees C in 10 min) at a site in the egg which would be occupied by an early embryo. Conversely, when the egg is moved from the bench back to the incubator, nearly 2 h is required for the egg to recover 90% of the heat that it had lost while cooling to 25 degrees C.

Animals↗