Pediatric Call

Biomarkers for Pediatric Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension – A Call to Collaborate

Therapeutic approaches in pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are based primarily on clinician experience, in contrast to the evidence-based approach in adults with pulmonary hypertension. There is a clear and present need for non-invasive and objective biomarkers to guide the accurate diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of this disease in children. The multifaceted spectrum of dise...

Challenges of existing pediatric dyslipidemia guidelines: call for reappraisal.

Existing guidelines for screening and managing lipoprotein abnormalities in children and adolescents are based on a consensus document published over 15 years ago by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Blood Cholesterol Levels in Children and Adolescents.1 This document was based on evidence that elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are high...

Please don't call my mom: pediatric consent and confidentiality.

Acute asthma management by a pediatric after-hours call center.

To describe an asthma management protocol used in a nurse-staffed pediatric After-Hours Call Center (AHCC) that incorporates severity-based home treatment recommendations and follow-up call assessments. Call records for asthma advice from January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2004 were identified retrospectively and reviewed. Descriptive statistics were used to report patient demographics, frequencies of...

The importance of sleep in pediatric chronic pain--a wake-up call for pediatric psychologists.

Historically, sleep problems were not commonly considered as a core component of pediatric chronic pain, in contrast to other well-established correlates, such as physical disability, depression, anxiety, and family disruption. At best, when they were considered, sleep disturbances were viewed as a secondary problem with questionable impact on pediatric pain management. It has been only recentl...