The practice of pediatric/neonatal interfacility transport continues to expand. Transport teams have evolved into mobile ICUs capable of delivering state-of-the-art critical care during pediatric and neonatal transport. The most recent document regarding the practice of pediatric/neonatal transport is more than a decade old. The following article details changes in the practice of interfacility...

340. Household (HH) outbreak of ESBL-producing E. coli sequence type 131 (ST131) infection with high rate of ST131 intestinal colonization and extensive strain sharing among HH members Theresa Madigan, MD; James R. Johnson, MD; Connie Clabots, BS MT(ASCP); Brian D. Johnston, BA; Stephen B. Porter, MS; Billie S. Slater, MA; Ritu Banerjee, MD, PhD; Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,...

Dose reduction has been a work in progress in pediatric imaging for nearly a decade. A 1996 report indicated that the long-term risk of carcinogenesis due to ionizing radiation in atomic bomb survivors was higher than had been previously estimated. For solid tumors, representing about 75% of excess cancer mortality, the likelihood of a radiation-induced malignancy after exposure to ionizing rad...

In response to demographic and other trends that may affect the future of the field of pediatrics, the Federation of Pediatric Organizations formed 4 working groups to participate in a year’s worth of research and discussion preliminary to a Visioning Summit focusing on pediatric practice, research, and training over the next 2 decades. This article, prepared by members of the Gender and Genera...

There is inadequate knowledge about acute poisoning as a common problem in children. Acute poisoning in children, , is one of the health problems, requiring immediate treatment. Case report: A two-month-old male infant with discoloration of the nails was admitted to the Emergency Pediatric Unit of Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad, Iran in 2014. Following clinical evaluations, the blood lead level w...

Author Affiliations:Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (Agwu); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (Agwu, Voss); Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC (Neptune); Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Uni...

Signa Vitae is an international peer-reviewed open access journal, which currently indexed in SCIE, scopus, etc. It covers many aspects of adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, anesthesia emergency medicine

1 Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, 2 Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Peoria, IL, USA, 3 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel, 4 Office of the Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental...

Masatoshi Imamura, Bao Luo, Jennifer Limbird, Andrea Vitello, Masahiko Oka, D. Dunbar Ivy, Ivan F. McMurtry, Chrystelle V. Garat, Michael B. Fallon, and Ethan P. Carter Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver; Department of Internal Medicine and Liver Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alab...

Vanderbilt-Meharry Sickle Cell Center for Excellence, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Department of Radiology, Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Department of Radiology, Divisions of Emergency Radiology and Neuroradiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center , Nashville, TN ; Rodeghier Consultants, Chicago, Illinoi...