腰椎间盘突出症患者腰腿痛的血循环障碍因素与推拿手法的促循环作用机制

推拿手法长期以来被广泛用于腰椎间盘突出症的治疗．但其疗效机制却不甚明了。腰椎间盘突出症最具特征性的临床症状是不同程度的腰腿痛，其发病机制主要是机械压迫、无菌性炎症刺激以及循环与营养障碍等因素导致受累神经根传导功能的障碍，其中血循环与营养障碍是腰腿痛发病的重要环节。手法治疗对患者腰腿痛的缓解与消除作用应与改善患者的血循环和营养障碍有直接或间接的关系。     

胃肠道恶性肿瘤围手术期肠内免疫营养的临床研究

目的评价肠内免疫营养对胃肠道恶性肿瘤术后免疫功能、炎症反应、营养状态、并发症的影响，探讨I临床推广应用的理论依据。方法将90例胃肠道恶性肿瘤随机分为免疫营养组、普通营养组和对照组，术前5天和术后1、8天分别检测多项指标。结果（1）术后免疫营养组免疫指标明显高于另两组；（2）术后免疫营养组的炎性指标明显低于另两组；（3）术后免疫营养组的前白蛋白明显高于另两组；（4）术后免疫营养组的并发症明显低于另两组。结论围手术期肠内免疫营养可在术后早期提高病人的免疫功能，减轻术后应激反应，降低术后并发症的发生率，并缩短平均住院时间。     

Development and reproducibility of a tool to assess school food-purchasing practices and lifestyle habits of Australian primary school-aged children

Objective: To describe the development and reproducibility of a self‐report instrument, for use with children in years 4–6, to identify sources of food eaten during the day, and type and frequency of food purchases at school. Design: Tool development stages included formulation of content and format, expert review, piloting and a test–retest study. Subjects/setting: The pilot study included school students (n = 20) in years 4 and 5 (seven girls, mean age 9.7 ± 0.7 years) attending an Australian public primary school. The test–retest study was performed in a large metropolitan public primary school (n = 245 children, 52% female, mean age 10.7 ± 0.91 years) including children from years 4 (n = 88), 5 (n = 84) and 6 (n = 73). Statistical analysis: A Kappa statistic was used to assess level of agreement between the two time periods separated by 1 week. The results were analysed using SAS version 8.2 with each question compared at time 1 and 2. Results: The mean kappa was 0.529 using pairings from 17 questions. Values ranged from 0.18 to 0.71 (CI 0.46–0.60). Conclusions and applications: The School Eating Habits and Lifestyle Survey has been developed and pilot‐tested in primary school‐aged children and shown to have moderate stability over time. The results show that each phase of development, particularly those spent in consultation and testing, led to progressive improvement of this instrument. This process improved the quality of information produced and gave insights to self‐report of dietary intake and behaviours among children.     

肝脏外科患者术后输注脂肪乳剂对蛋白质代谢的影响

将32例肝脏外科疾病患者随机分为Ⅰ组（单能源TPN组10例）；Ⅱ组（双能源TPN组11例，其中脂肪乳剂用量为1g·kg－1·d－1）；Ⅲ组（双能，TPN组11例，其中脂肪乳剂用量为2g·kg－1·d－1）。术后按组别给予TPN支持共6天，术前1天、术后第1和第6天测定肝功，糖代谢及蛋白质合成代谢指标。结果：①Ⅱ、Ⅲ组术后第6天肝脏酶学指标明显下降（P＜0．05），而Ⅰ组仍高于术前水平（P＜O．05）；②Ⅱ、Ⅲ组术后糖代谢基本恢复正常，而Ⅰ组出现高血糖症及高胰岛素血症（P＜0．05）；③Ⅱ组肝脏蛋白质合成水平恢复术前水平或略有提高（P＜0．05），而Ⅰ和Ⅲ组术后蛋白质合成功能仍低（P＜0．05）。结果提示：含脂肪乳剂的TPN支持对肝脏外科患者术后的肝功恢复有益，能促进蛋白质合成及肝细胞再生，并且在进行TPN支持时按1g·kg－1·d－1给予脂肪乳剂较为安全合理。     

Serum markers of bone formation in parenteral nutrition patients

Summary Bone gamma-carboxyglutamic acid containing protein (BGP) has been utilized effectively as a serum marker of bone turnover in healthy normals and in individuals with a variety of metabolic bone disorders including postmenopausal osteoporosis and Paget's disease. The utility of this serum marker in other bone disorders, including that associated with the maintenance of patients on long-term parenteral nutrition, still requires definition. Because of our interest in this clinical syndrome and the availability of serum and of bone formation rates (BFR) measured directly from double tetracycline labeling in 11 long-term parenteral nutrition patients, we measured BGP levels in these patients and attempted to correlate this measure with BFR. Serum vitamin D metabolites, immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (PTH), and alkaline phosphatase (alk phos) were also measured. Serum BGP was only weakly and not significantly correlated (r=0.24, p=NS) with bone formation rate for the group as a whole. However, in a subgroup of 10 patients without hyperparathyroidism, there was strong and significant correlation (r=0.81,P<0.01) between BGP and BFR. There was also a strong correlation between bone formation rate and serum 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] levels (r=0.89,P<0.01, n=11). The mechanism of this association could not be established. A correlation of borderline significance was observed between bone formation rate and serum alk phos (r=0.60,P=0.05, n=11). The current data suggest that additional studies may help to more fully define the utility of serum measurements in quantifying bone dynamics in parenteral nutrition patients, and that measures of vitamin D metabolites, BGP, and alk phos may prove useful.     

Pre- and postoperative nutritional care in liver transplantation in children

Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is now a definitive treatment option for most cases of endstage liver disease (ESLD) in children. Efforts now focus on active supportive treatment to maintain, if not improve, the patient's clinical status before OLT and to ensure normal patterns of growth and development after OLT. Malnutrition adversely affects the outcome of OLT and is probably the single area in pre-operative management where the largest potential improvement can be made. Our studies indicate significant abnormalities of protein energy metabolism and body composition in children referred for OLT. We have shown that the use of enteral formulae, enriched with branched-chain amino acids, have significant advantages. Other adjunctive therapy, such as growth hormone, is the subject of current investigation. Following transplantation, catch-up weight and growth does occur with the advent of normal liver functioning, but patients at continuing risk for undernutrition, such as those with rejection and/or chronic infection, need to be targeted for specific nutritional therapy.     

普通外科危重患者围手术期的营养支持

目的：研究普通外科危重患者围手术期营养支持的临床疗效。方法：对1995年以来147例普通外科危重患者围手术期营养支持应用情况进行了分析，腹部手术138例（93.9%)，颈部手术9例（6.1%)，采用以全胃肠外营养（TPN）为主的阶段性营养支持方法补充营养。深静脉置管方法：经颈内静脉置管132例（89.8%)、腋静脉11例（7.5%)、股静脉4例（2.7%)，使用单腔导管127例（86.4%)，双腔20例（13.6%)，41例（27.9%)，放置肠内营养（EN）管。106例（72.1%)为TPN→PN 口服饮食→口服饮食，41例（27.9%)为TPN→PN EN→EN→EN 口服饮食→口服饮食。结果：本组营养支持期间无置管和代谢并发症。142例（96.6%)康复，5例（3.4%)死于原发病。结论：普通外科危重患者围手术期营养支持是重要辅助治疗方法，可保证手术安全，促进术后康复。     

ENTERAL VERSUS PARENTERAL NUTRITION AFTER OESOPHAGOGASTRIC SURGERY: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED COMPARISON

Background: There appears to be an emerging consensus that early postoperative nutritional support benefits the high-risk patient by decreasing septic morbidity, maintaining immunocompetence and improving wound healing. Enteral nutrition via a feeding jejunostomy has been associated with serious complications, with a reported mortality rate as high as 10%. while total parenteral nutrition has also been associated with a wide variety of complications. Methods: Ninety-seven patients undergoing oesophagectomy or gastrectomy underwent pre-operative nutritional assessment and were randomized to receive either total parenteral nutrition (47 patients) or enteral nutrition (50 patients). Results: There was no significant difference in the number of catheter-related complications between the two groups, but 9 (45%) patients in the total parenteral nutrition group had major morbidity (potentially fatal in two patients) requiring active intervention. Conclusions: This study demonstrates enteral nutrition to be safe and associated with mainly reversible minor complications. It is probable that immediate postoperative enteral feeding conserves the gut's integrity. Whether this leads to a reduction in postoperative septic complications has not been demonstrated by this study although there appears to be a trend in this direction, supporting the concept of enteral feeding as ‘primary therapy’. This can be safely, simply and economically achieved using a feeding jejunostomy placed at the time of surgery.     

The Cathlocator: A novel non-radiological method for the localization of enteral tubes

Safe placement of nasogastric tubes requires reliable positioning of the tip of the tube within the stomach. Radiology and aspiration are currently used to confirm tube position, but suffer from significant problems of cost and efficacy, respectively. We have developed a novel method to locate the position of a catheter tip within the body, using the detection of a low energy electromagnetic field generated in a coil located in the catheter with an external hand-held unit (Cathlocator). In vitro, the unit detected the distance of the coil from the detector with an accuracy of 0.1 cm over a range of 4–12 cm. In vivo studies were performed in 11 healthy volunteers using a purpose-built manometric assembly that incorporated the signal generating coil in its tip. In all subjects the Cathlocator showed the position of the signal generating coil to be cranial to the xiphisternum when manometric and transmucosal potential difference criteria showed it to be located above the lower oesophageal sphincter. When the coil was within the stomach, the Cathlocator identified its position within the epigastric, umbilical and left hypochondrial regions of the abdomen. The distance of the coil from the surface was significantly greater when in the duodenum mean (±s.e.m. 7.6±0.3 cm; P<0.001) and oesophagus (8.6±0.2 cm; P<0.002) than the stomach (5.0±0.4 cm). In one subject studied twice there was a close correlation between the location and depth measured by the device on each occasion. The Cathlocator is a novel non-radiological device that has the potential to be useful in the placement of gastrointestinal catheters.     

Artificial nutrition support in intensive care units in Spain

Objective A multicenter survey to study the use of nutritional support in patients admitted to the ICU in Spain.Design The survey was announced during the annual Spanish Society of Intensive Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMIUC) congress meeting.Setting Questionnaires designed to determine current clinical practice concerning artificial nutrition were sent to the 27 ICU who accepted to participate.Patients and participants In each center the 235-question form was filled out individually for each patient admitted to the ICU during the month of March, 1992.Interventions To validate the study a preliminary pilot surveys were conducted to ensure that there was a correct interpretation of the questions. The replies were entered into a database for analysis.Results A total of 1261 patients were studied; 33.9% received artificial nutrition (AN). The administration of AN was significantly higher in the medical group (44%), than in the surgical (37%) and the trauma group (19%). AN was significantly lower in patients admitted to private clinic than public institutions (26.7% versus 34.7%). Among the patients who received AN, enteral nutrition (EN) was administered to 59.7% of the patients, total parenteral nutrition (TPN) to 38.5%, and peripheral parenteral nutrition (PPN) to 18.2%. Medical patients received significantly more EN than surgical and trauma patients. Surgical patients received more PN than medical and trauma groups.Conclusions Nutritional support is a common practice in the treatment of ICU patients in our country. All information concerning its use is necessary to optimize it.