Medicine and Health Rhode Island Archives

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION SURGERY FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE: THE ROLE OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Amick, Melissa M
Deep brain stimul…

BEHAVIORAL AND MASSAGE TREATMENTS FOR INFANT SLEEP PROBLEMS
Forbes, Elizabeth A
The regulation and consolidation of sleep are major …

BEATING HEART SURGERY
Lilly, R Eric
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains the most common heart operation with over 300,000…

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION FROM A SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Cooper, George N Jr
For over 20 years I have witnessed the ravages of atrial fibrill…

GASTRIC BYPASS
Roye, G Dean
In the United States, fFrom 1980 to 1999 the percentage of obese people, defined as being greater than 3…

DIRECT CURRENT CARDIOVERSION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND FLUTTER
Buxton, Alfred E
Direct current cardioversion (DC CV) is an establi…

EARLY SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS FOR APPENDICITIS IN RHODE ISLAND
Arsenault, Fred
The surgical treatment of appendicitis was largely an …

HOT TOPICS IN AUTISM: COGNITIVE DEFICITS, COGNITIVE STYLE, AND JOINT ATTENTION DYSFUNCTION
Sheinkopf, Stephen J
Autism is characteri…

latest treatment advances for acute myelogenous leukemia, The
Colvin, Gerald A
A cute leukemia is a stem cell disease that usually f…

CREATINE KINASE: A REVIEW OF ITS USE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF MUSCLE DISEASE
Gasper, Mason C
Measurement of serum enzymes is a widely use…