OBJECTIVE The goal was to identify criteria that would allow low-risk infants presenting with an apparent life-threatening event to be discharged safely from the emergency department. METHODS We completed data forms prospectively on all previously healthy patients <12 months of age presenting to the emergency department of an urban tertiary care children's hospital with an apparent life-threa...

OFDM is employed in numerous existing standards for local and metropolitan area

Foreign body aspiration is a potentially life-threatening event especially in those who are younger than 5 years old. Aspiration could be presented as a spectrum, ranging from absolutely asymptomatic event to more sever events including choking, respiratory distress and cyanosis or even death. Although foreign bodies in lung may not be visualized on X-ray, X-ray radiography is considered as a f...

OBJECTIVES To study variations in the way pediatricians would evaluate and manage an infant with an apparent life-threatening event. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A survey was mailed to the chief residents of all pediatric residency training programs in the United States in which respondents were presented with a simulated case and asked how they would manage an infant who had experienced an apparent ...

Apparent life-threatening events account for 0.6% to 0.8% of all emergency department visits for children aged < 1 year. Risk factors for serious underlying pathology in a well-appearing infant have been identified as prematurity, underlying medical conditions, age < 60 days (considered controversial), suspicion of child abuse, possible seizure activity, and recurrent apparent life-threatening ...

conclusions small dose of clopidogrel (75 mg) may lead to rare, life-threatening dah, so physicians should be aware of the possibility of dah after neurointervention in patients who have respiratory distress, worsening alveolar infiltrates accompanied by hemoptysis. introduction diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (dah) is a very rare complication but acute and life-threatening event. clopidogrel has g...