Infection: a pediatric ambulatory surgery cohort study Christina Irace, BS; Heather Brouwer, BS; Rachael Ross, MPH; Matthew Miller, BS; Robert Grundmeier, MD; Susan Rettig, BSN, CIC; Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD; Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; General Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Infection Prevention a...

Department of Pediatrics (C.J.K., L.E.K., F.P., N.H., W.L.M., A.A.P.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143; Pediatric Nephrology (A.S.), MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; and Department of Pediatrics (Y.C.), Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, Seoul 110-74...

1 Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan 2 Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 11217, Taiwan 3 Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 4 Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11031, Taiwan 5 China M...

From the Departments of Pediatrics (A.H., R.W.H., E.R.W.) and Radiology (M.C.), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University and Columbus Children’s Hospital, Columbus (R.W.H.); the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, Boston (M.B.); and the Division of Gene...

Introduction: Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging modality that produces 3-D cross-sectional images of tissues using several X-ray projections at different angles. Since its introduction in the 1970s, CT usage has been on the increase for both adults and pediatrics. A major challenge of this modality is the high doses of radiation exposure to patients, especially in p...

370. The Impact of Early Life Antibiotic Exposure on Childhood Weight Gain Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD; Elizabeth Prout, MD, MSCE; Rachael Ross, MPH; Matthew Bryan, PhD; Robert Grundmeier, MD; Evanette Burrows; Carrie Daymont, MD, MSCE; Virginia Stallings, MD; Theoklis Zaoutis, MD, MSCE; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelp...

Introduction In radiography, dose and image quality are dependent on radiographic parameters. The problem is caused from incorrect use of radiography equipment and from the radiation exposure to patients much more than required. Therefore, the aim of this study was to implement a quality-control program to detect changes in exposure parameters, which may affect diagnosis or patient radiation do...

Background: Breast cancer is a common disease in radiation oncology. We evaluated the radiation dose received by breast cancer patients, an often-neglected concern. Materials and Methods: The total effective radiation dose in 101 breast cancer patients was calculated by summing the effective doses of individual diagnostic imaging tests from the first hospital visit to the initiation of radiothe...

introduction: midazolam has turned into a common drug for pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia. however, there is not much data regarding its proper dose and potential side effects in the iranian children population. therefore, the present study was done to compare 2 doses of iv midazolam in this regard. methods:  the present clinical trial was performed to compare 0.1 and 0.3 mg/kg dose...

1Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Department of Pediatrics and 3The Cytogenetic Laboratory, The University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 4Department of Pediatrics, The University Hospital Linkjöping, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Pediatrics, The University Hospital Umeå, Stockholm, Swede...