OBJECTIVES The objective was to evaluate the accuracy of pediatric emergency physician (EP) sonography for infants with suspected hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS). METHODS This was a prospective observational pilot study in an urban academic pediatric emergency department (PED). Patients were selected if the treating physician ordered an ultrasound (US) in the department of radiology for t...

Eduardo Mekitarian Filho, Werther Brunow de Carvalho, Sérgio Cavalheiro, Nelson Kazunobu Horigoshi, Norberto Antonio Freddi, Gil Kruppa Vieira I Pediatrics and Sciences Applied to Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Pediatric Emergency Department, University Hospital of Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and Admissions Unit of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Pediatric Inte...

Current American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) liver transplant evaluation guidelines include both adult and pediatric patients. While pediatric liver transplants account for 7.8% of all liver transplants in the United States, sufficient differences between pediatric and adult patients seeking liver transplantation (LT) now require independent, yet complementary documents....

A 12-year-old, previously healthy girl presented to the Pediatric Emergency Department with back pain and decreased sensation and tingling in her bilateral lower extremities. She had back pain for the past 2 months; the initial episode lasted 2 to 3 days. At that point, she had missed 1 day of school. The pain disappeared, and she returned to her normal activities, including playing soccer and ...

Purpose: The Objective of the study is to know and record effect lockdown in outpatient emergency services pediatric ophthalmology department Kedia Eye Hospital.Method: Comparison children attending Pediatric Department Hospital during before lockdown. Data February 16 2021 April 15 was compared with June 2021. Collection data done from Outpatients Emergency Register.Results: Children below yea...

From the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology (Hasosah), King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, and the Departments of Pediatric Gastroenterology (Al-Sunaid), and Medical Imaging (Al-Shaalan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Address correspondence to: Dr. Mohammed Y. Hasosah, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterolo...

1. Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, Physician Assistant, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute of the Medical School Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo (INCOR-HCFMUSP), Sao Paulo , SP, Brazil. 2. Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of Pe...

The factors of integral importance to run any pediatric emergency department efficiently are the ability to process a high volume of patients quickly and a sensitive triage system that identifies the sickest children. Achieving these aims in a low- to middle-income country setting is more complex as a result of scarce resources and data on which to base systems. In this article, we discuss exis...

1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON; 2Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 3Stroke Program, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Pediatric and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB; 4Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON; 5Department of Medical Imaging...

340. Household (HH) outbreak of ESBL-producing E. coli sequence type 131 (ST131) infection with high rate of ST131 intestinal colonization and extensive strain sharing among HH members Theresa Madigan, MD; James R. Johnson, MD; Connie Clabots, BS MT(ASCP); Brian D. Johnston, BA; Stephen B. Porter, MS; Billie S. Slater, MA; Ritu Banerjee, MD, PhD; Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,...