OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of SIGN Pediatric and Fin nails in treating pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Level I trauma center from 2010 to 2013. PATIENT/PARTICIPANTS Eighteen patients (13 male and 5 female) with pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures who did not achieve skeletal maturity. INTERVENTION...

Capsule endoscopy (CE) avoids the ionizing radiation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia required by other imaging modalities, making it particularly valuable in the evaluation of gastrointestinal disease in pediatric patients. In examining the use of CE in pediatric and adult patients through a review of the literature, it was observed that CE is most frequently indicated for the evaluation...

This study reviews patients aged 21 and younger, who presented to the Ochsner Medical Center's Pediatric Emergency Department during COVID-19 pandemic. A retrospective analysis was completed comparing demographics, symptomology, laboratory between COVID positive negative patients.

Background About 40 to 60% of all patients admitted to pediatric intensive care unitsundergo mechanical ventilation and 10 to 20% will fail to be extubated. We aimed to determine the role of the rapid shallow breathing index (RSBI) in predicting successful weaning of pediatric patients with respiratory failure.   Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study, was performed on 72 mechanical...

INTRODUCTION To establish disease severity at admission can be performed by way of the mortality prognostic. Nowadays the prognostic scores make part of quality control and research. The Pediatric Risk of Mortality is one of the scores used in the pediatric intensive care units. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is the utilization of the pediatric risk of mortality to determine mortality r...

Background: NT-proBNP is a marker that is released from ventricles in response to pressure and volume overload. Raised plasma level of NT-proBNP is seen in ventricular dysfunction, ventricular muscular mass reduction or ventricular ischemia. Anthracyclines are widely used in treatment of pediatric cancer but their use is associated with cardiotoxicity which increases mortality and morbidity. We...

Surgical stress responses cause an array of endocrinological, metabolic and immunological changes in patients. The landmark studies in the 1980s showed that adequate anesthesia dramatically improved the outcomes of pediatric surgical patients by attenuating stress hormonal responses, pointing out the harm of 'inadequate' anesthesia. Subsequent studies questioned the role of administering very h...

objective: epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder requiring long term therapy using antiepileptic medications. reports have incriminated long term antiepileptic drugs use in deficiency of vitamin d and bone diseases in all age groups. to investigate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels and pediatric epilepsy in indian patients.           methods& methods: we prospective...

background: the graduated dentists who are working for the community health services are considered to be better judges to comment on the educational needs in accordance with the society prerequisites. the aim of this study was to investigate the educational provisions of the department of pediatric dentistry from the viewpoints of the graduated dentists of shiraz dental school. methods: a tota...

BACKGROUND Despite growing number of intraocular lens power calculation formulas, there is no evidence that these formulas have good predictive accuracy in pediatric, whose eyes are still undergoing rapid growth and refractive changes. This study is intended to compare the prediction error and the accuracy of predictability of intraocular lens power calculation in pediatric patients at 3 month ...