Pediatrics
Clinical
CPAP safety for infants with bronchiolitis on the general pediatrics floor
SEATTLE – “Very, very few” hospitals do bronchiolitis CPAP outside of the ICU.
Career
Pediatric hospitalist certification beset by gender bias concerns
Over 1,400 sign petition to American Board of Pediatrics.
News
FUO, pneumonia often distinguishes influenza from RSV in hospitalized young children
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – “These findings open new possibilities for antimicrobial stewardship in these groups of...
Clinical
Treating children with Kawasaki disease and coronary enlargement
An important new study reveals a treatment protocol that decreases the rate of aneurysm enlargement.
News
Short-term parenteral antibiotics effective for bacteremic UTI in young infants
No significant differences in urinary tract infection recurrence or hospital reutilization between short- and long-term parenteral antibiotic...
News
Differential monocytic HLA-DR expression prognostically useful in PICU
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – European pediatric “study of the year” paves way for novel sepsis immunotherapies.
News
Presepsin can rule out invasive bacterial infection in infants
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – Novel test addresses unmet need for biomarker for invasive bacterial infection.
News
‘Substantial burden’ of enterovirus meningitis in young infants
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – “Not a single one of the patients with enterovirus/human parechovirus meningitis had a secondary bacterial infection – and...
Clinical
How to nearly eliminate CLABSIs in children’s hospitals
One hospital went 6 months without a central line–associated bloodstream infection after quality improvements.
News
Novel score spots high-risk febrile children in ED