Introduction/Objective. COVID-19 pandemic has changed the rehabilitation
practice across the globe. A sudden transition from in person therapy at the
center to remote therapy challenged the mangers and multi-disciplinary team
members providing pediatric rehabilitation. The main objective of this
research was to assess the provision of services for children with
disabilities during COVID 19 in the UAE. Methods. Two surveys were
developed by the research team, one for the center managers and the others
for multidisciplinary team members. Both surveys were validated through
experts followed by a pilot study. The final versions of the survey were
sent to all the pediatric rehabilitation centers within the United Arab
Emirates in September 2020. A total of 44 managers and 434 multidisciplinary
team members completed the survey. Results. The accessibility of the
pediatric rehabilitation services was reported to be very high with 77%.
Regarding the cost for running the services almost half 46% of managers
reported to be costlier than the normal. Telerehabilitation was the most
common approach utilized with synchronized live video calls (86%), YouTube
video clips (88%) and created own video (65%). Conclusion.
Telerehabilitation appeared to be the most efficient model used for
pediatric rehabilitation during the pandemic. The future investments for the
continued use of telerehabilitation require planning, budgeting, investing
and creating supportive environments for parents, children and
multidisciplinary team members. There is a need for sharing platforms for
educational and therapeutic resources created during the pandemic with
ongoing research on telerehabilitation.
New fossils from the Late Cenomanian-Turonian locality in the Bileca area
are reported. The fossils include a diverse assemblage of snakelike reptile remains, fishes and plants. While fossil snakes have already been found
in this area, the remains of fish and plants are reported for the first
time. Based on the state of fossil preservation, the following were identified: the snake Pachyophis (Simol iophiidae), the pychnodont fish
Coelodus sp., and plant remains of the flowering plants groups
Magnoliidae exc. Lilianae, Arecaceae (palm trees), and Cycadopsida.
This paper presents the first Upper Cretaceous remains of fish in Serbia,
discovered near the village of Struganik. This is also the first described
find of Mesozoic fish in Serbia. A stone slab with visible contours of an
almost complete fish, with a total body length of about 20 cm, was excavated
from the Struganik quarry. Most bones are preserved as imprints. The number
of vertebrae, the shape and position of the cranial bones, the type of
teeth, and the position of the first dorsal fin all indicate that the
studied specimen belongs to the genus Enchodus known from several Upper
Cretaceous localities in the Tethys domain.
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