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If there are any missing answers discount zofran 4 mg symptoms vitamin b12 deficiency, a separate ‘no answer’ category needs to be included in any frequency count table discount zofran 8 mg visa symptoms kidney failure. In the final re- port, some researchers overcome this problem by convert- ing frequency counts to percentages which are calculated after excluding missing data. However, percentages can be misleading if the total number of respondents is fewer than 40. HOW TO ANALYSE YOUR DATA/ 125 EXAMPLE 12: TOM Tom works part-time for a charity which provides infor- mation and services for blind and partially sighted peo- ple in the town. He was asked to find out how many people use the service and provide a few details about who these people are and what they do in life. Tom de- signed a short questionnaire which could be adminis- tered face-to-face and over the telephone by the receptionist. Anyone who called in person or telephoned the centre over a period of a month was asked these ques- tions. If they had already completed a questionnaire they did not have to do so again. Tom did not have access to any computing facilities, so he decided to analyse the questionnaires by hand. He conducted a count of gender, age, occupation, postcode area of residence and reason for attending or telephon- ing the centre. From this information, members of staff at the centre were able to find out that their main custo- mers were women over the age of retirement. This meant that they were able to arrange more activities which sui- ted this age group. Tom found out also that one of the main reasons for contacting the centre was for more in- formation on disability benefits. A Braille booklet and a cassette recording containing all the relevant informa- tion was produced and advertised locally. It took Tom one month to design and pilot the question- naire, another month to administer the questionnaire and two months to analyse the results and write the re- port. Often you will need to find out if there is a connection between one variable and a number of other variables. For exam- ple, a researcher might want to find out whether there is a connection between watching violent films and aggressive behaviour. In multivariate analysis the researcher is interested in ex- ploring the connections among more than two variables. For example, a researcher might be interested in finding out whether women aged 40-50, in professional occupa- tions, are more likely to try complementary therapies than younger, non-professional women and men from all categories. MEASURING DATA Nominal scales To move beyond frequency counts, it is important to un- derstand how data is measured. In nominal scales the re- spondent answers a question in one particular way, choosing from a number of mutually exclusive answers. Answers to questions about marital status, religious af- filiation and gender are examples of nominal scales of measurement. The categories include everyone in the sam- ple, no one should fit into more than one category and the implication is that no one category is better than another. Ordinal scales Some questions offer a choice but from the categories gi- HOW TO ANALYSE YOUR DATA/ 127 ven it is obvious that the answers form a scale. They can be placed on a continuum, with the implication being that some categories are better than others. The occupationally based social scale which runs from ‘professional’ to ‘unskilled manual’ is a good example of this type of scale. In this type of scale it is not possible to measure the difference between the specific categories. Interval scales Interval scales, on the other hand, come in the form of numbers with precisely defined intervals.

The sudden onset after his tennis game on that Sunday many months before was simply coincidental generic zofran 4mg fast delivery symptoms kidney failure. In Brad’s case generic 4mg zofran overnight delivery treatment 12mm kidney stone, the arthritic inflammation of his sacroiliac joint occurred as a reaction to his urinary tract infection, which had also triggered his eye infection. In many men, the infection begins in the genitourinary tract (bladder or urethra) just as it did with Brad. In women, it can be an inflammation of the cervix, fal- lopian tubes, or vulva. Joint symptoms, eye involvement, and mouth ulcers or other rashes can be observed with this ailment. He was genetically predisposed to develop this syndrome from his father. Although it’s just speculation, evi- dence points to the fact that Lydia’s gynecological issues caused Brad’s gen- itourinary infection, which in turn triggered the inflammation of his eyes (conjunctivitis) many weeks later. Brad, like most patients, thought his back pain was the result of an injury from his tennis game. Although there is no cure for Reiter’s syndrome, when Brad’s condition was treated with prolonged use of anti-inflammatory medications, antibiotics, and a supervised strength- ening exercise routine, he improved greatly. But without working through his Eight Step notebook, diagnosing this syndrome would have continued to be extremely difficult. The following case study describes another mystery malady that took an enormous toll on the patient and her family and confused even the best doc- tors. Since it involved chest pain, it did not seem to be musculoskeletal in origin. Yet it just took some basic detective work, using the Eight Steps, to determine that it was not cardiac in nature. Case Study: Anna Anna, a married mother of three, suffered from severe chest pain and feared she might have a heart problem. Several months earlier when the pain first started, she thought it was gas because she was always eating out at the fast- food places her kids enjoyed. But she hadn’t received any relief from antacids or other over-the-counter preparations. She ended up in the emergency department where an electrocardiogram (EKG), arterial blood gases, and a chest x-ray were taken. When the doctors there were unable to find the cause of her pain, she was admitted to the main hospital for observation and eval- uation. She subsequently received a stress test, an echocardiogram, and ulti- mately a cardiac catheterization. When those tests turned out to be normal, her physicians brought in an attending gastroenterologist to evaluate her for a possible abnormality in her stomach, gallbladder, or esophagus. After the 170 Diagnosing Your Mystery Malady gastroenterologist tried certain strong antacids and ulcer medications, he administered nitroglycerin. When these medications failed to relieve her pain, she was placed on narcotics. Her doctors sent her home and suggested to her husband, Tim, that she should see a psychiatrist. Although relieved to know that his wife didn’t have a heart problem, Tim felt more than a little angry about the situation. He had been living with his mother-in-law for the past two weeks, and the kids were acting up without their mother. Anna felt ashamed and embarrassed that she had caused all these prob- lems over what was apparently nothing. Her chest pain continued, but she was simply too humiliated to see a psychiatrist or complain again. She almost left her two-year-old child behind, alone in the house, when she departed for the supermarket. Now, in addition to being in physical pain, she was suffering from a crisis of confidence. Anna was terrified that she was now unable to handle the children or her life. Rosenbaum was the preceptor for the medical resident who was assigned to evaluate Anna after her discharge from the hospital.

At the time of his death he was within an ace of seeing all the reforms and ideas for which he had striven so hard and so long finally accepted and put into practice discount zofran 4mg visa treatment 3 degree heart block. Frank Holdsworth was born and brought up in Bradford and cheap zofran 8mg without prescription medications that cause hair loss, apart from his years of training, first at Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner, and then at St. George’s Hospital in London, he spent the whole of his professional life in Sheffield. So he was a true Yorkshireman, and made no bones about it; which means that he was uncomplicated, direct, transparently honest, 145 Who’s Who in Orthopedics warm hearted, occasionally irascible, utterly reli- where once a week the entire staff presented their able, a bit stubborn (he used to say pig-headed), problem cases for discussion. The particular con- completely loyal and quite incapable of being ference that we attended developed into an almost spoiled either by power or success or anything gladiatorial contest with such orthopedic giants as else. Most people who scale the heights as he did Smith-Petersen, Joe Barr, Bill Rogers and Eddie are affected in some degree by it, but I doubt if Cave taking part. Frank Holdsworth, who had he changed in the slightest during the 30-odd visited many continental clinics where, in those years that I knew him so well. In those days there was no segregation of ferences were open to all orthopedic surgeons and orthopedics and trauma, but within a few years their junior staff in and around Sheffield, and the and with the help and encouragement of Sir atmosphere was delightful. They were completely Ernest, he was elevated to the staff and given informal and friendly, there was no showing off, the job of creating an orthopedic and accident and cases were presented only because they were service. He developed it, as everyone knows, into problems about which advice was needed. He one of the most famous units in Britain and a always insisted on starting the discussion at reg- “must” for every foreign orthopedic surgeon vis- istrar level and working up in order to discourage iting this country. His own that he later introduced the rotating registrar intellectual honesty somehow washed off onto system, an innovation that has since become everybody who became regularly associated with popular all over Britain, and he was justly proud him in this way, and although a little coat-trailing of the fact that in all the years of its operation only or kite-flying was occasionally permitted in order one registrar left the rotation without gaining the to liven up a discussion, the general rule was that, FRCS. He Working as he did in a highly industrialized was a particularly severe debunker of loose think- area of steel and coalmining, he always had a par- ing or armchair theorizing. On one occasion when ticular interest in accident surgery, and being the my own kite had got a little out of control he pref- kind of surgeon who, to use his own words, liked aced his summing up by saying that he had never to see the ball in the back of the net, he became heard me talk quite so much out of my hat and one of an early pioneer group who developed the then proceeded to take me apart and leave the concept of rehabilitation in this country. The juniors loved under the auspices of the then Miners’ Welfare it, of course, but at the end of the conference he Commission, before the advent of the National took me aside and asked if I would go along and Health Service. Later, under the same auspices, he see a patient with him because, as he said: “I think was one of a small group to visit Canada and the I’ve made a pig’s ear of it”—another favorite United States to study the problems of paraplegia, expression of his, which, translated into standard then a scourge in the mining industry. Paraplegia southern English, meant that it was not quite remained one of his major interests throughout coming up to expectations. It was small incidents the rest of his career and he became an interna- of this kind that revealed something of the char- tional authority on the subject. He he succeeded in establishing the spinal injuries had no time for sycophants or for any form of unit at Lodge Moor Hospital in Sheffield, not as insincerity, and every member of his team was a center for dealing with the terrible complica- expected to say what he thought and call a spade tions of paraplegia but as an early transfer unit a spade. He trained many fine surgeons, some of where these complications could be prevented. The unit always remained a team, the staff conference in action, notably in Boston, every member regarding him with great respect 146 Who’s Who in Orthopedics and affection. Indeed, this applied to everyone ugly uncivilised North,” he would say, “or they’ll who worked with him, including the many all come up from the South and spoil it. He left behind his wife Marjorie, herself a York- He was essentially a modest man and although shire woman endowed with many of his own ster- he had so strong a personality and such gifts of ling qualities, his son John and his daughter Mary. Indeed, he was always faintly surprised at finding himself famous and sought after, and although he knew for years that the writing was on the wall, he refused to make any concessions. To the despair of friends and medical advisers alike, he continued to drive himself as hard as ever in the many high offices to which he was called—President of the British Orthopedic Association, Senior Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Examiner to the College and to many universities apart from his own, and a much sought after lecturer in many parts of the world. Even in his last year he visited the United States twice and on the last occasion was made an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons—an honor very rarely awarded to surgeons outside that country. His knighthood in 1967, followed by a professorship in 1969 in his own university, made a fitting climax to a brilliant career. Few people go so far Dame Agnes HUNT without leaving in their wake some enemies and detractors but Frank Holdsworth left none.

Although relatively rare in childhood Guillain–Barre´ syndrome buy zofran 4 mg symptoms iron deficiency, autonomic complications such as hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias need to be watched for and treated appropriately zofran 8mg symptoms kidney disease. Because of denervation supersensitivity, treatment should begin with more conservative measures, and be initiated only when vital func- tions are compromised. For example, sinus tachycardia is relatively common but in Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathies 179 Table 2 Treatment of Neuropathies Associated with Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Childhood Disorder Neuropathy Treatment Mitochondrial cytopathies Large fiber demyelination Putative role dichloroacetate, and axon loss co-enzyme Q, carnitine Globoid cell leukodystrophy Large fiber demyelinating Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Metachromatic Large fiber demyelinating Bone marrow transplantation leukodystrophy Fabry disease Small fiber axonal Recombinant alpha- galactosidase A therapy Refsum disease Large fiber demyelinating Dietary restriction of phytanic acid and phytol Adrenomyeloneuropathy Large fiber demyelination Treatment of adrenocortical and axon loss insufficiency, dietary supplementation with Lorenzo’s oil, restricted dietary intake of very long chain fatty acids, possible role of lovastatin Type 1 primary Large fiber segmental Combined liver–kidney hyperoxaluria demyelination and transplantation axon loss Cerebrotendinous Large fiber demyelination, Oral chenodeoxycholic acid, xanthomatosis secondary axon loss cholic acid, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors Abetalipoproteinemia, Large fiber demyelination High-dose supplementation hypolipoproteinemia and axon loss vitamins A,D,E, and K Ataxia with vitamin E Large fiber axonal High-dose supplementation deficiency vitamin E Tyrosinemia type 1 Large fiber axonal Dietary restriction of tyrosine and phenylalanine, oral hematin, 2-nitro-4-trifluoro- methyl-benzoyl-1,3- cyclohexanedione (NTBC) Acute intermittent Large fiber axonal loss Intravenous heme and porphyria heme arginate the otherwise healthy child usually does not require treatment. Serum sodium levels are frequently disturbed by the presence of ‘‘inappropriate’’ ADH (vasopressin) secretion, but usually conservative treatment with fluid restriction is sufficient. Dysphagia or bulbar paresis may necessitate temporary withdrawal of oral feeding, followed if necessary by parenteral, nasogastric, or gastrostomy feeding. Constipation is common and should be anticipated and treated aggressively. Pain is frequent in childhood Guillain–Barre syndrome and may go unrecognized in small´ children. It is managed with nonsteroidal or narcotic analgesia, gabapentin, and sometimes with intravenous immunoglobulin or corticosteroids. Chest and limb physical therapy is important to clear secretions and maintain limb mobility. Attention to pain control during therapy sessions often 180 Ouvrier et al. Splints may be required to prevent contractures due to chronic foot- and wrist drop. Acute neuropathies caused by iatrogenic, inadvertent, or deliberate exposure to medicines, chemotherapeutic agents, environmental toxins and agents of abuse are, fortunately, relatively rare in childhood. In such cases the mainstay of therapy is ces- sation of exposure to the toxic agent, with or without more specific treatment. Hereditary Neuropathies The genetic polyneuropathies of children are divided into several groups, the most prominent of which are the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies, and the her- editary sensory and autonomic neuropathies. All are characterized by genetically mediated defects in peripheral nerve structure or metabolism. Very rarely such patients develop a second pathology, in the form of an acquired (inflammatory) demyelinat- ing neuropathy, which may be steroid responsive. Most patients with these disorders, however, derive no long-term benefit from corticosteroids or other immunosuppres- sive medications. Management of chronic genetically determined pediatric neuropa- thies mostly consists largely of anticipation and treatment of secondary complications. In addition to these primary genetic neuropathies, there are a number of other disorders in which chronic peripheral neuropathy contributes significantly to functional loss, including Friedreich’s ataxia, some inborn errors of metabolism, and neuropathies that arise as a complication of systemic disease. Children with chronic neuromuscular disorders are best followed in a multidis- ciplinary clinic in which they can undergo regular review by a multiple specialty team that includes specialists in rehabilitation, physical and occupation therapy, orthope- dics, and neurology. As a group, certain complications of chronic peripheral neuro- pathy can be anticipated, and with foresight sometimes mitigated. In certain disorders, some more specific complica- tions can be anticipated as discussed below. Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathies The Foot The foot is involved in the majority of cases of peripheral neuropathy. Both cavus contractures and ‘‘flail’’ type planovalgus feet are encountered. Palliative manage- ment of problematic feet is largely based on approaches adapted from other areas of practice and can be very helpful. More curative approaches are attractive in prin- ciple, especially in younger patients, but often meet with only limited success. Adequate footwear and appropriate orthoses to improve posture and support foot drop are effective in reducing discomfort and=or minimizing the functional impact of peripheral neuropathy. Ankle=foot orthoses (AFOs) limit foot drop dur- ing walking but are cosmetically unattractive and can be unpopular, especially with older children. Strengthening exercises have been shown to result in short-term gains in proximal muscles, but there are no studies evaluating the short- or long-term effect of exercise on the distal musculature, which is most often preferentially denervated in peripheral neuropathy. Passive stretching is thought to prevent contractures in the calf and feet, but a recent controlled trial of night splints in Australian adults and 182 Ouvrier et al. Compliance with night splinting regimens is a major problem, and especially so in children. Many children with peripheral neuropathy will ultimately require surgery to correct structural changes in the feet.