ABSTRACT
Research findings of allied health practitioners' attitudes toward rural practice are limited. The purpose of this study was to identify attitudes of faculty members in a school of allied health toward rural vs. urban living, clinical education, and practice. A survey consisting of demographic and attitudinal questions was mailed to 233 faculty representing five professions. The response rate was 63.5%. The majority viewed rural living as having both positive and negative aspects. Placement of clinical students in rural areas was seen as enhancing rural recruitment. Rural professional issues were viewed as mixed with the most positive aspect being greater intellectual challenge. There were a few significant attitude differences by gender, age, years of experience, profession, hometown location, and practice location site. The findings of this study generally support previous research and contribute additional knowledge regarding attitudes toward rural practice. Further studies of allied health professionals appear warranted.
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Allied Health Personnel/education , Attitude of Health Personnel , Faculty , Rural Health Services , Nebraska , TeachingABSTRACT
This paper reports on 350 pediatric patients who were studied over a 17-month period to determine the efficacy and safety of oral and intramuscular sedation techniques. The protocol using oral chloral hydrate, 50 mgm/kg, for infants under 1 year of age or intramuscular pentobarbital, 5 mgm/kg, for children over 1 year was found to be an effective, safe and fairly simple approach to pediatric sedation. Of the 350 sedated patients, 343 (98 percent) had satisfactory scans on the same day the examination was scheduled after a single dose or an initial dose and supplementary sedation.
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Hypnotics and Sedatives/administration & dosage , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods , Administration, Oral , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Chloral Hydrate/administration & dosage , Humans , Infant , Infusions, Intravenous , Injections, Intramuscular , Pentobarbital/administration & dosageABSTRACT
In this article the standard orthoroentgenograph is compared with computed tomography (CT) scanography in determining bone length discrepancies. Dried femur bones are studied by both methods. The CT scanogram method is found to be more accurate than the orthoroentgenography method.
