INTRODUCTION A pediatric hospital may aim to show governmental agencies, charitable organizations, and philanthropic individuals how its clinical services differ from those of nonpediatric surgical facilities and of other pediatric hospitals. Yet, it is unknown how to use existing databases to quantify where infants and young children undergo surgery, and to use that information to differentiat...

BACKGROUND Hospital-acquired respiratory viral infections can result in morbidity and mortality of hospitalized patients. This study was undertaken to better understand the magnitude of the problem of nosocomial respiratory viral infections in adult and pediatric patients. METHODS This was a retrospective study at a tertiary care adult and pediatric teaching hospital. Study patients met a pri...

Our goal in this paper was to use the 2006-2013 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) database to describe trends of annual patient number, patient demographics and hospital characteristics of pediatric traumatic brain injuries (TBI) treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs); and to use the same database to estimate the available sample sizes for various clinical trials of pediatric T...

Paediatric Intensive Care, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants, 15 av JJ Crocq, Brussels, Belgium Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK Zentrum Anaesthesiologie, Rettungsund Intensivmedizin, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany Pediatric Intensive Care Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Complutense University of M...

1Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology Unit, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Clinical Medicine, Prevention and Biotechnologies, Section of Medical Statistics, Uni...

A pediatric transport system should be capable of rapidly delivering advanced pediatric skilled critical care to the patient’s bedside at the referring hospital and of maintaining that level of care during transport to the receiving hospital. Physicians and others with special expertise in pediatric transport have developed specific recommendations for pediatric transport systems.19 The Committ...

OBJECTIVES Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is an uncommon event with measurable short-term survival to hospital discharge. For those who survive to hospital discharge, little is known regarding duration of survival. We sought to evaluate the arrest circumstances and long-term survival of pediatric patients who experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and survived to hospital disch...

Conclusion Our data showed a relatively higher prevalence of cryptorchidism in children older than 2 years of age, which may be caused by late diagnosis. We need to increase the awareness of this condition among public population and medical providers. Authors’ details Pediatric Endocrinology Division, Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatr...

Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn Giulia Rubin, Giulia Spagnut, Francesco Morandi, Enrico Valerio & Mario Cutrone Department of Women and Children’s Health, Medical School, Padua University Hospital, Padova, Italy Department of Pediatrics, “Santa Maria della Misericordia” Hospital, Udine University, Udine, Italy Pediatric Unit, “Sacra Famiglia” Hospital, Erba, Como, Italy Pediatric Derma...