Barbara Swope Turner

Journal article AACN clinical issues · May 2000 Featured Work Airway management procedures are an integral part of caring for the newborn infant with respiratory compromise. Concomitant with these interventions are latrogenic consequences that result in varying degrees of trauma to the tracheobronchial tree. Common i ... Full text Cite

A historical perspective on the discovery of adenyl purines.

Journal article Biological research for nursing · April 2000 Featured Work In 1929, Drury and Szent-Gyorgyi described the effects of a simple extract of heart muscle and other tissues on the mammalian heart. This extract was identified as adenylic acid and found to have profound effects on the cardiovascular system. The discovery ... Full text Cite

Efficacy of saline vs heparin in maintaining 24-gauge intermittent intravenous catheters in a rabbit model.

Journal article Neonatal network : NN · September 1999 Featured Work PurposeThe purpose of this study was to compare saline and heparin flushes in 24-gauge i.v. catheters.DesignA double-blind experiment in four recorded trials was conducted using a rabbit model. Twenty-four-gauge catheters were placed in b ... Full text Cite

Effect of short-duration hyperventilation during endotracheal suctioning on intracranial pressure in severe head-injured adults.

Journal article Nursing research · July 1997 Featured Work A repeated measures randomized within-group design was used to determine the effectiveness of controlled short-duration hyperventilation (HV) in blunting the increase of intracranial pressure (ICP) during endotracheal suctioning (ETS). A multimodal continu ... Full text Cite

How to make research happen: working with staff.

Journal article Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · May 1994 Featured Work Implementing a research project in a clinical nursing unit requires the researcher to gain cooperation and support from administration, physicians, and the nursing staff. In this article the site coordinators from the Transition of the Preterm Infant to an ... Full text Cite

Left handedness.

Journal article BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · December 1993 Featured Work Full text Cite

Viscous fingering of HCl through gastric mucin.

Journal article Nature · December 1992 Featured Work The HCl in the mammalian stomach is concentrated enough to digest the stomach itself, yet the gastric epithelium remains undamaged. One protective factor is gastric mucus, which forms a protective layer over the surface epithelium and acts as a diffusion b ... Full text Cite

The "other" intensive care unit.

Journal article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · September 1992 Featured Work Cite

Endotracheal suctioning in adults with head injury.

Journal article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · November 1991 Featured Work The purpose of this study was to determine the method of endotracheal suctioning (ETS) that resulted in the least compromise to the cerebrovascular status of adult patients with severe head injuries. A two-group (two vs three ETS), two-protocol (100% tidal ... Cite

The physiologic effects of positioning premature infants in car seats.

Journal article Neonatal network : NN · December 1990 Featured Work Cite

Maintaining the artificial airway: current concepts.

Journal article Pediatric nursing · September 1990 Featured Work Artificial airways are a common treatment modality in neonatal and pediatric critical care units. Maintaining the integrity of artificial airways in infants and children requires accurate assessment of endotracheal tube (ETT) position and patency, adequacy ... Cite

Embryologic and physiologic basis of neonatal respiration.

Journal article AACN clinical issues in critical care nursing · August 1990 Featured Work Development of the respiratory system requires the integration of anatomic, physiologic, and biochemical factors. This process is described from 5 weeks gestation until establishment of respirations after birth. ... Full text Cite

Meconium aspiration syndrome: have we made a difference?

Journal article Pediatrics · May 1990 Featured Work Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) and its associated complications are reviewed from the period before the routine use of intubation and suctioning to the present (1973 through 1987). Of the 176,790 neonates born during this period, the amniotic fluid was ... Full text Cite

Different high-frequency ventilator strategies: effect on the propagation of tracheobronchial histopathologic changes.

Journal article Pediatrics · January 1990 Featured Work To assess the role of high-frequency ventilator strategy in the propagation of airway injury, we compared the tracheobronchial histologic alterations in 20 newborn piglets ventilated for 8 hours with high-frequency flow interruption (HFFI). Ten animals wer ... Full text Cite

Ageing, status politics and sociological theory.

Journal article The British journal of sociology · December 1989 Featured Work As a feature of social change and as an aspect of social stratification, ageing and age groups have been seriously neglected by sociological theory. This article attempts to conceptualize age groups in a multi-dimensional model of stratification which cons ... Full text Cite

Determinants of tracheobronchial histologic alterations during conventional mechanical ventilation.

Journal article Pediatrics · August 1989 Featured Work It was hypothesized that diverse mechanisms may influence upper airway injury during mechanical ventilation. To assess the roles of several factors in the propagation of such injury, the tracheobronchial histologic changes in 53 newborn piglets were compar ... Cite

Agency and structure in the sociology of sickness.

Journal article Psychiatric medicine · January 1987 Featured Work Cite

Pulmonary mechanics during rapid mechanical ventilation in rabbits with saline-lavaged lungs.

Journal article Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · October 1986 Featured Work Infants with respiratory failure are frequently mechanically ventilated at rates exceeding 60 breaths/min. We analyzed the effect of ventilatory rates of 30, 60, and 90 breaths/min (inspiratory times of 0.6, 0.3, and 0.2 s, respectively) on the pressure-fl ... Full text Cite

Amniotic band syndrome.

Journal article Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · July 1985 Featured Work Amniotic band syndrome results from a tear in the amnion, due to unknown etiology, which allows amniotic fluid and fetal parts to escape from the amnion into the chorion. Defects resulting from amniotic band syndrome are described. Management of the infant ... Full text Cite