Pediatrician’s Viewpoint

Does Routine Antibiotic Therapy Benefit Children With Severe Acute Malnutrition?: Pediatricians Viewpoint.

In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, the authors randomly assigned children (age 6-59 mo) with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to receive amoxicillin or placebo for 7 days. The primary outcome was nutritional recovery at or before week 8. A total of 2412 children were randomized, and 2399 children were included in the analysis. Nutritional recovery occurred in 65.9% of ...

Postgraduate education for pediatricians.

Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...

A Guide for Pediatricians

Hearing: a pediatricians approach.

UNLABELLED Hearing plays a fundamental role in a child's global development; however, some professionals do not realize how much they may contribute to mitigate the sequelae caused by hearing impairment. AIM to collect data on pediatricians approaches in a city in the country side of Santa Catarina State, regarding the early detection of hearing impairment and identify the methodology utilize...

The trouble with pediatricians.

Rarely, as far as I can discern, do the pediatric departments of the six medical schools in Chicago come together to address an issue in health care. There are certainly many issues available: pediatric AIDS, infant mortality, prematurity, access to care, health care finances, funding pediatric education, and probably others. But the Chicago area pediatric department chairmen have come together...