The Decrease in Surgical Paediatric Death Rate

Death rate mystery

Knowing the true rate of death from covid-19 will help us fight the pandemic, but for the moment it eludes us, reports Michael Le Page.  

Decrease in the prevalence of paediatric adiposity in Switzerland

OBJECTIVE: A national study in Switzerland in 2002 suggested nearly one in five schoolchildren was overweight. Since then, many programmes have been introduced in an attempt to control the problem. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of childhood overweight in Switzerland five years later. DESIGN: In both studies a cross-sectional, three-stage, probability-proportional-...

Surgical navigation in paediatric orthopaedics

Computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery was born in the 1990s. Nowadays, computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery is used for transpedicular screw fixation and for total knee arthroplasty.Patient-specific instrumentation is one type of computer-assisted surgery based on volumetric images, such as computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging.In this article, possible applications of patient-spec...

Nutrition in the Paediatric Surgical Patient

Paediatric liver transplantation: the surgical view.

Liver transplantation is the accepted treatment for a wide variety of liver diseases in children. Over the past 10 years a number of innovative surgical techniques have been developed to overcome the shortage of size matched donors particularly in children less than 5 years of age. Graft and patient survival at one year after liver transplantation has continued to improve, and is now over 85% a...