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- Drug management for acute tonic-clonic convulsions including convulsive status epilepticus in children
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Sep-2010
Tonic-clonic (grand mal) convulsions and convulsive status epilepticus (currently defined as a grand mal convulsion lasting at least 30 minutes) are medical emergencies and demand urgent and appropriate anticonvulsant treatment. Benzodiazepines (midazolam
- Drug therapy for preventing post-dural puncture headache
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 25-Feb-2013
Post-dural (post-lumbar or post-spinal) puncture headache (PDPH) is one of the most common complications of diagnostic, therapeutic or inadvertent lumbar punctures. Many drug options have been used to prevent headache in clinical practice and have also be
- Drug therapy for the management of cancer-related fatigue
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Aug-2010
This review is an update of a previously published review in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Issue 1 2008). Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is common, under-recognised and difficult to treat. There have been studies looking at drug interventions
- Drug treatment for faecal incontinence in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Jun-2013
Faecal incontinence (leakage of bowel motions or stool) is a common symptom which causes significant distress and reduces quality of life.
- Drugs for nocturnal enuresis in children (other than desmopressin and tricyclics)
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Oct-2012
Enuresis (bedwetting) is a socially stigmatising and stressful condition which affects around 15% to 20% of five-year olds and up to 2% of young adults. Although there is a high rate of spontaneous remission, the social, emotional and psychological costs
- Drugs for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Mar-2014
Drugs can prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting, but their relative efficacies and side effects have not been compared within one systematic review.
- Drugs for treating urinary schistosomiasis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Jul-2014
Urinary schistosomiasis is caused by an intravascular infection with parasitic Schistosoma haematobium worms. The adult worms typically migrate to the venous plexus of the human bladder and excrete eggs which the infected person passes in their urine. Chr
- Early intravenous nutrition for the prevention of neonatal jaundice
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Nov-2008
The early institution of enteral feeding in the first few days of life is known to impact on the development of unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia. However, the effect of early intravenous nutrition on neonatal jaundice remains unknown.
- Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Mar-2012
Mother-infant separation postbirth is common in Western culture. Early skin-to-skin contact (SSC) begins ideally at birth and involves placing the naked baby, head covered with a dry cap and a warm blanket across the back, prone on the mother's bare chest
- Early versus late antiepileptic drug withdrawal for people with epilepsy in remission
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Apr-2015
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder which affects millions of people around the world. Antiepileptic drugs (AED) are the main interventions used to prevent seizures and control epilepsy. Although effective in most cases, AEDs are related to long-t
- Effects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet on blood pressure, renin, aldosterone, catecholamines, cholesterol, and triglyceride
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Oct-2011
In spite of more than 100 years of investigations the question of reduced sodium intake as a health prophylaxis initiative is still unsolved.
- Electrical stimulation for faecal incontinence in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Nov-2008
Faecal incontinence is a particularly embarrassing and distressing condition with significant medical, social and economic implications. Electrical stimulation has been used with apparent success in the treatment of faecal incontinence. However, standards
- Electrical stimulation for preventing and treating post-stroke shoulder pain
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Aug-2008
Shoulder pain after stroke is common and disabling. The optimal management is uncertain, but electrical stimulation (ES) is often used to treat and prevent pain.
- Electromagnetic fields for treating osteoarthritis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Dec-2013
This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2002. Osteoarthritis is a disease that affects the synovial joints, causing degeneration and destruction of hyaline cartilage and subchondral bone. Electromagnetic field therapy is currently used b
- Electromechanical-assisted training for walking after stroke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Jul-2013
Electromechanical and robotic-assisted gait training devices are used in rehabilitation and might help to improve walking after stroke. This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in 2007.
- Electrotherapy for neck pain
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Aug-2013
Neck pain is common, disabling and costly. The effectiveness of electrotherapy as a physiotherapeutic option remains unclear. This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2005 and previously updated in 2009.
- EMG biofeedback for the recovery of motor function after stroke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Aug-2008
Electromyographic biofeedback (EMG-BFB) is a technique that is believed to have additional benefit when used with standard physiotherapy for the recovery of motor function in stroke patients. However, evidence from individual trials and previous systemati
- Empirical antibiotics targeting Gram-positive bacteria for the treatment of febrile neutropenic patients with cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Feb-2015
The pattern of infections among neutropenic cancer patients has shifted in the last decades to a predominance of Gram-positive infections. Some of these Gram-positive bacteria are increasingly resistant to beta-lactams and necessitate specific antibiotic
- Enteral tube feeding for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Dec-2010
Enteral feeding (tube feeding) is offered to many people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease experiencing difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) and maintaining adequate nutritional intake leading to weight loss.
- Epidural local anaesthetics versus opioid-based analgesic regimens for postoperative gastrointestinal paralysis, PONV and pain after abdominal surgery
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Nov-2014
Gastrointestinal paralysis, nausea and vomiting, and pain, are major clinical problems following abdominal surgery. Anaesthetic and analgesic techniques that reduce pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and prevent or reduce postoperative ile
