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Children and teenagers take longer to recover from a concussion if they’ve had one before, especially within the past year, Boston Children’s Hospital emergency department physicians found in a study of 280 of their concussed patients published June 10 in Pediatrics. The median duration of... »
Striking rise in accidental marijuana poisonings
The number of unintentional marijuana poisonings in children rose markedly in Colorado after medical marijuana was decriminalized in 2009, with visits to one emergency department climbing from zero to 2.4% of all poisoning cases in just 2 years, according to a report published online May 27 in JAMA... » WASHINGTON – A rapid viral testing panel decreased the odds of inappropriate antibiotic use by 67% in children hospitalized with an acute respiratory illness, allowing about 6% of the children taking them to discontinue them.
Use of such a test could be part of a facility’s overall antibiotic... » LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – Ultrasound expedites clinical decision making and often dictates the next step to pursue when managing children in the emergency department.
"It makes sense to use ultrasound for pediatric patients, but there’s been a delay in picking up this idea. Only now is (the... » SAN ANTONIO – Overweight and obese children in need of epinephrine for anaphylaxis should be injected in the calf or in the lower thigh, rather than upper half of the thigh, to ensure intramuscular administration, according to findings from an ultrasound study of 93 children.
Ultrasound... »
Viral testing cut antibiotic use in children with respiratory illness
Ultrasound expedites pediatric emergency evaluations
For overweight children, inject epinephrine in lower thigh
Children and teenagers take longer to recover from a concussion if they’ve had one before, especially within the past year, Boston Children’s Hospital emergency department physicians found in a study of 280 of their... »
Medical myth busting: Its time has comeLAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – What’s in a myth? Maybe just a fanciful explanation of how the elephant got his long nose. Or maybe a long-standing medical mind-set whose time has come and gone, according to Dr. Sean... »
EBSOS implementation improves asthma guideline compliance
SAN ANTONIO – More of the children who present to the pediatric emergency department with asthma exacerbation received recommended care when the staff had instituted a nurse-initiated, evidence-based, standardized order set,... »
A pediatric migraine diagnosis starts with a thorough patient history. I start by having the child or adolescent characterize their headache. What is its location, what does it feel like, how long does it last, and is there... »
COVINGTON, KY. – A healthy 2-year-old is admitted for incision and drainage of a MRSA thigh abscess and is given intravenous clindamycin during a 1-day hospital stay before being discharged home with a prescription for oral... »
Cost Sharing Linked to Rise in Asthma Hospitalizations
Private health plans’ use of cost sharing for prescription drugs – the practice of shifting more of the expense of medications onto the patient – apparently has led parents of children with asthma to reduce their use of... »