1Departments of Hematology and Oncology, University Children’s Hospital, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany 2 Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Cell Therapeutics and Hemostaseology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany 3Clinic of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Ham...

Department of Cardiology, University of Pavia and IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.; The Children’s Heart Program of South Carolina, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, U.S.A.; Pediatric Arrhythmias Center, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy; Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, C...

Methods A prospective study was conducted in January until December 2011 period. The initial measurement were made by residents in charge. The nutritional status was defined according to CDC 2000 guidelines. Exclusion criteria including children with fluid retention, organomegaly, obesity, and tumours. HM was defined as weight decreased ≥ 2% for LOS (length of stay) less than 7 days, ≥ 5% for L...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with research productivity among pediatric hospitalists. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional online survey of pediatric hospitalists recruited from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine from May to August 2009. We used abstract presentations at a national meeting (intermediate outcome) and 22 first-author peer-reviewed manu...

OBJECTIVES To review the management and outcomes of pediatric patients treated for descending mediastinitis at a single institution and contribute to an updated mortality rate. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary care pediatric hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This study is a 19-patient case series of all patients treated for descending mediastinitis at a tertiary p...

The pathological processes of the esophagus within the pediatric age group had been little studied and valued until recently, when evolution in diagnostic methods such as upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGIE) made advancements in knowledge possible. Today we know that cow’s milk allergy, dysmotility, certain infections, traumas, caustic substances and gastroesophageal reflux (GER) can cause e...

PURPOSE Hospital-acquired Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia) infection are not commonly recorded in patients without underlying lung disease, such as cystic fibrosis and chronic granulomatous disease. However, in 2014, B. cepacia appeared more frequently in pediatric blood samples than in any other year. In order to access this situation, we analyzed the clinical characteristics of B. cepacia in...

Pierre-Henri Rolland, Pascal de Lagausie, Euletheris Stathopoulos, Olivier Leprètre, Gilles Viudes, Guillaume Gorincour, Géraldine Hery, Catherine de Magnée, Olivier Paut, and Jean-Michel Guys Physiopathology and Vascular Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of the Mediterranean Sea, Marseilles; Departments of Pediatric Surgery Department, Pediatric Reanimation, and Pediatric Radiology,...

A number of intraoperative anaphylactic reactions to latex occur in pediatric patients. To determine the frequency and characteristics of latex reactions in pediatric dental patients, a 32-item survey was completed by consenting parental interview at three pediatric dental clinics. Two were hospital-based, specializing in dental care for chronically ill or disabled children. The other was a den...

During each winter period hospital emergency rooms and pediatric wards are often overwhelmed by high patient influx with infectious diseases leading to chaotic conditions with poor quality of care (QoC) delivery as a consequence. The conditions could be improved if we were able to better control the influx by introducing for instance better prevention strategies against some of the most frequen...