Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; All Children’s Hospital, The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida, Pediatric Cardiology Associates/Pediatr...

OBJECTIVES The study assessed dexmedetomidine utilization and practice variation over time in ventilated pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) patients; and evaluated differences in hospital outcomes between high- and low-dexmedetomidine utilization hospitals. STUDY DESIGN This serial cross-sectional analysis used administrative data from PICU admissions in the pediatric health information sys...

1 Specialist in Pediatry; Pediatric Infectology Resident, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Parasitological and Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Universitário Materno-infantil, UFMA, São Luís, MA, Brazil 2 Specialist in Neonatology, UFMA, Neonatology Service, Hospital Universitário Materno-infantil, UFMA, São Luís, MA, Brazil 3 MSc in Health Sciences, Universidade de Brasília (UnB);...

The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Neurology Division, Nemours Children's Health System, Jacksonville, Florida Clinique Pediatrique, Centre Ho...

Background: Fever and neutropenia (FN) is a common complication of pediatric cancer treatment, but hospital utilization patterns for this condition are not well described. Methods: Data were analyzed from the Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID), an all-payer US hospital database, for 2009. Pediatric FN patients were identified using: age ≤19 years, urgent or emergent admit type, non-transferred, and...

Georgia Sarquella-Brugada, MD, Oscar Campuzano, PhD, Anna Iglesias, MSc, Josefina Grueso, MD, PhD, David J. Bradley, MD, Gunter Kerst, MD, PhD, Daniel Shmorhun, MD, PhD, Josep Brugada, MD, PhD, Ramon Brugada, MD, PhD From the Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit, Cardiology Service, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Cardiovascular Genetics Center, University of Girona-I...

Objective. The purpose of this study was to review inpatients undergoing tracheostomies at a tertiary care pediatric hospital in a 24-month period and to identify the indications, comorbidities, hospital course, patient complexity, and predischarge planning for tracheostomy care. The goal was to analyze these factors to highlight potential areas for improvement. Study Design. Case series with c...

1Department of Neurological Surgery, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; 2Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey; 3Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and 4Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; 5De ­ part ment of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hos­ pital, Boston, ...

Address: 1Department of Pediatric Physical Therapy & Paediatric Exercise Physiology, Het Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis, University Children's Hospital, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2Department of Pediatric Physiotherapy, Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, 3Department of Physiotherapy (HO-Q), Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Hollan...

For best survival and quality of life, pediatric basic life support (BLS) should be part of a community effort that includes prevention, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), prompt access to the emergency response system, and rapid pediatric advanced life support (PALS), followed by integrated post– cardiac arrest care. These 5 links form the American Heart Association (AHA) pediatric Cha...