Pediatrics
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Gene panel identifies residual neuroblastoma metastases
Major finding: In a multivariate analysis, patients negative for minimal residual disease had about a fourfold increased rate of progression-free...
Practice Economics
Handoff intervention cuts medical errors in hospitalized children
Major finding: The rate of medical errors decreased from 33.8/100 to 18.3/100 admissions after the handoff intervention was implemented, and the...
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Ready or not? Most ICUs not as prepared for disaster as they think
Major finding: Although 78% of ICU staff had never performed a vertical ICU evacuation drill, only 23% admitted to feeling "inadequately trained"...
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Study shows antireflux procedures are overused in infants
Major finding: The proportional hazard ratio of undergoing antireflux surgery was markedly decreased for patients aged 7 months to 4 years (0.63)...
Conference Coverage
Increasing proportion of musculoskeletal infections involve MRSA
Major finding: The proportion of musculoskeletal infection cases involving MRSA vs. MSSA increased from 12% to 35% between 2001 and 2010.Data...
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Repeat CT selectively in children with traumatic brain injuries
Major finding: Two of 106 children with mild TBI who had repeat CT scans underwent craniotomy (2%), 1 of whom had worsening clinical symptoms.Data...
Case Reports
Traumatic Obturator Hip Dislocation in a 9-Year-Old Boy
Traumatic hip dislocation is a rare but potentially devastating injury in a child. Although most hip dislocations are posterior, other variants...
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Managing blunt abdominal trauma in children tricky business
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A mitral valve replacement that may grow with the child
Major finding: Eight infants with irreparable mitral valve disease underwent mitral valve replacement with the Melody valve, which offers the...
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Hypoglycemia linked to increased morbidity risk in pediatric burn patients
Major finding: Severely burned children are almost three times more likely to die if they have even one hypoglycemic episode.Data Source:...