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HFNC 12 L/min on floor cuts down on bronchiolitis ICU transfers
September 2, 2019
Switching from 6 L/min makes a difference.
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Use hospital MRSA rates to guide pediatric osteomyelitis treatment
August 28, 2019
SEATTLE – If your hospital MRSA rate is less than 10%, cefazolin is a reasonable empiric choice for acute pediatric hematogenous osteomyelitis.
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Blood test may reveal brain injury
August 27, 2019
Levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) are lowest in patients with nonconcussive body trauma, higher in patients with nonconcussive head trauma, and highest in patients with concussion.
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CPAP safety for infants with bronchiolitis on the general pediatrics floor
August 26, 2019
SEATTLE – “Very, very few” hospitals do bronchiolitis CPAP outside of the ICU.
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Pediatric hospitalist certification beset by gender bias concerns
August 23, 2019
Over 1,400 sign petition to American Board of Pediatrics.
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FUO, pneumonia often distinguishes influenza from RSV in hospitalized young children
August 22, 2019
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – “These findings open new possibilities for antimicrobial stewardship in these groups of virally infected children.” Dr. Cihan Papan.
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Treating children with Kawasaki disease and coronary enlargement
August 22, 2019
An important new study reveals a treatment protocol that decreases the rate of aneurysm enlargement.
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Short-term parenteral antibiotics effective for bacteremic UTI in young infants
August 20, 2019
No significant differences in urinary tract infection recurrence or hospital reutilization between short- and long-term parenteral antibiotic groups.
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Differential monocytic HLA-DR expression prognostically useful in PICU
August 19, 2019
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – European pediatric “study of the year” paves way for novel sepsis immunotherapies.
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Presepsin can rule out invasive bacterial infection in infants
August 16, 2019
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – Novel test addresses unmet need for biomarker for invasive bacterial infection.
