Temporal artery thermometry utilization in pediatric emergency care.

abstract：:The authors conducted a chart review of all febrile infants between 28 and 90 days of age who presented to the emergency department (ED) between December 1 and March 31 during 2004-2006. The objectives of the study were to describe the practice patterns of pediatric ED physicians caring for these infants and to determ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Ferguson CC,Roosevelt G,Bajaj L

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential to the management of the sick, low birth weight infant is maintenance of a neutral thermal environment by use of convection incubators and radiant warmers. Manipulation of the infant in preparation for transfusion and the transfusion of cold blood could theoretically lower the infant's body temperature, subs...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Luban NL,Mikesell G,Sacher RA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between lipids, lipoproteins, total homocysteine, and lipoprotein (a) was studied in hypercholesterolemic and normocholesterolemic children. In hypercholesterolemic children, concentrations of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, and triglycerides were signif...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Laskowska-Klita T,Szymczak E,Radomyska B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the current study was to develop syndrome-specific standardized growth curves for growth hormone-treated Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) individuals aged 0 to 18 years. Anthropometric growth-related measures were obtained on 171 subjects with PWS who were treated with growth hormone for at least 40% of thei...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Butler MG,Lee J,Cox DM,Manzardo AM,Gold JA,Miller JL,Roof E,Dykens E,Kimonis V,Driscoll DJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated possible changes in the incidence of acute mastoiditis. A retrospective review of children discharged with a diagnosis of acute mastoiditis was undertaken to describe the epidemiology, clinical presentation, microbiology, and treatment of acute mastoiditis over past years. Demographic his...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Nussinovitch M,Yoeli R,Elishkevitz K,Varsano I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid antibiotics are often substantially more expensive than their pill counterparts, representing an opportunity for substantial cost reductions. Children can be taught to swallow pills at about age 6 years. The objective of this study was to calculate the potential cost saved by replacing liquid antibiotics with c...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Hori KS,Siu AM,Yamamoto LG

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. The available literature on pulmonary disease in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease is limited. We evaluated the prevalence of pulmonary manifestations in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease and their association with disease severity. Methods. Patients completed the St. George's Respiratory Questionnai...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Barfield E,Deshmukh F,Slighton E,Lentine J,Lu Y,Ma X,Christos PJ,Sockolow RE,Loughlin G,Pillai S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal was to determine if breastfeeding provides any protection against urinary tract infection (UTI) and if vitamin D supplementation imposes any additional risks for UTI in infants < 3 months of age. In this study, 40% of the children who had urine cultures were breastfed, and 18.7% of the children were exclusive...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Katikaneni R,Ponnapakkam T,Ponnapakkam A,Gensure R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old boy with an endocardial cushion defect who had skull erosion as well as widening of the diploe is described. This was accompanied by thickening of the tables, "hair-on-end" striations in the skull, and cortical thinning and medullary cavity expansion in the femora. The skull erosion is attributed to venou...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Hegde HR,Tyrrell MJ,Wilson DR,Leung AK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much attention has been focused on the natural history of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in neurologically normal infants which generally resolves by two years of age. In contrast, little is known of the outcome of GER diagnosed in normal older children. The charts of 32 children (21 males) without neurologic or esopha...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Treem WR,Davis PM,Hyams JS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital right diaphragmatic hernia can present a difficult diagnostic problem. An illustrative case is reviewed in which the diagnosis was not considered during the initial hospitalization because chest radiographs were interpreted as showing an atelectatic and pneumonic process. Once suspected, the diagnosis was m...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Stahl GE,Warren WS,Rosenberg H,Spackman TJ,Schnaufer L

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript reviews the basic and most common types of congenital hand anomalies seen by the pediatrician. Each disorder is categorized into the standard classification system used, and the main highlights of each condition are detailed with representative illustrations. Other system anomalies associated with cong...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Smith JG,Weiss AP,Weiss YS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pancreatitis is unusual in pediatric patients, and chronic pancreatitis is even less common. Between 1983 and 1988, we diagnosed 24 patients in late childhood and adolescence with chronic pancreatitis. Our review revealed that chronic pancreatitis presents as recurrent abdominal pain in late childhood and adoles...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Mathew P,Wyllie R,Caulfield M,Steffen R,Kay M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of nonoperative treatment of esophageal perforation (EP) in children. Between 1999 and 2004, 13 episodes in 12 patients were evaluated. The treatment program consisted of broad-spectrum antibiotics, nasopharyngeal aspiration, parenteral and/or enteral nutri...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Demirbag S,Tiryaki T,Atabek C,Surer I,Ozturk H,Cetinkursun S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefotaxime, a third generation cephalosporin antibiotic, was evaluated in 26 infants and children for the treatment of documented or suspected bacterial infections, including pneumonia (10 cases), soft tissue skin infection (13 cases), and urinary tract infection (3 cases). An average daily dose of 60 mg/kg in 3 to 4 ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Varghese M,Khan AJ,Kumar K,Schaeffer HA,Pierro M,Evans HE

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pediatricians are increasingly aware of the problem of undernutrition in children with neurologic disabilities, many of these children remain poorly nourished despite prolonged attempts at oral feedings. We studied the effects of tube feeding on such children, using either nasogastric (NG) or gastrostomy (GT)...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Naureckas SM,Christoffel KK

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature delivery is common in pregnancies complicated by maternal diabetes. However, the outcome of very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBWI) born to mothers with diabetes is not known. Employing a matched double-cohort design, we investigated the influence of maternal diabetes on the outcome of VLBWI born in Winnipeg f...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Rehan VK,Moddemann D,Casiro OG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present three case studies of patients referred to Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, for evaluation of possible eating disorders. The atypical manifestations of the cases warranted further investigation, which revealed an organic basis for their weight loss. The authors summarize...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Wright K,Smith MS,Mitchell J

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An online survey was administered through the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section of Emergency Medicine Survey Listserv in Fall, 2017. Overall compliance was measured as never using chest X-rays, viral testing, bronchodilators, or systemic steroids. Practice compliance was measured as never using those modali...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Rivera-Sepulveda AV,Rebmann T,Gerard J,Charney RL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children presented with autoimmune alternating hypo- and hyperthyroidism related to the presence of blocking and stimulating thyroid antibodies. It was difficult to control their thyroid function adequately with an appropriate single drug regimen, and both children underwent total thyroidectomy with subsequent sta...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Mathew RP,Moore DJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand why congenital dislocated hip (CDH) was diagnosed late (mean age: nine months) in children admitted to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), 714 consecutive CHOP admissions, aged zero to two years, and 947 consecutive newborns delivered at the Hospital, University of Pennsylvania (HUP) were exa...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Kadkhoda M,Chung SM,Adebonojo FO

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of sonography in assessing chronic abdominal pain (CAP) in children, the characteristics of CAP, and the local pediatrician's practice in evaluating CAP are reported. Fifty-seven patients with CAP had abdominal and/or pelvic sonography; 56 were normal. One sonogram showed an ovarian cyst on the side opposite...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Schmidt RE,Babcock DS,Farrell MK

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old girl with sickle cell disease was admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of the acute chest syndrome. The laboratory findings and the radionuclear lung scan supported a diagnosis of pulmonary infarction rather than pneumonia. She improved with intravenous fluids, oxygen, penicillin, and theophylline....

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Babiker MA,Obeid HA,Ashong EF

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Families of 49 hearing-impaired children responded to a questionnaire requesting information about the identification of their child's hearing loss. Parents were the first to suspect the hearing loss in 48 cases but more often than not were told that the child would outgrow it or was too young to test. When profession...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Thompson MD,Thompson G

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adolescent female with occult cystic medial necrosis died following spontaneous aortic rupture. A large saccular aortic aneurysm that had ruptured into the pericardial space was demonstrated by two-dimensional echocardiography and confirmed at surgery. Echocardiographic screening of the patient's family members rev...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Schaffer MS,Nouri S,Chen SC,Waggoner AD,Pennington DG,Monteleone PL

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextromethorphan hydrobromide (DXM), a constituent of more than 125 patent cough/cold remedies, is the most popular antitussive medication in the United States. Cough syrups or capsules also contain additional ingredients such as acetaminophen, chlorpheniramine maleate, guaifenesin, and/or pseudoephedrine, and toxicit...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Schwartz RH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:Published data regarding outcomes of pediatric behavioral weight management are mainly from research interventions. The authors wished to explore outcomes from a clinical program. METHODS:A retrospective analysis of data from obese adolescents enrolled in the Michigan Pediatric Outpatient Weight E...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Woolford SJ,Sallinen BJ,Clark SJ,Freed GL

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This is a retrospective chart review of autistic patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) in a tertiary care pediatric center during the year 2011. RESULTS:There were 160 ED visits by 130 patients, 25% of visits were repeated, and 20% were admitted to the hospital. There were 126 (79%) male and ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Cohen-Silver JH,Muskat B,Ratnapalan S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for exchange transfusion was analyzed retrospectively using several different methods (total bilirubin binding capacity, birth weight, plasma protein level, and two published charts). These predictive methods were applied to 175 jaundiced infants for whom all the data were available and to 19 infants who were...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Robertson AF,Karp WB,Davis HC,Catterton WZ,Bunyapen C

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure the willingness and ability of primary care pediatricians (PCPs) to accept children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) into their practices. METHODS:Surveys were mailed to 1441 members of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics practicing primary care. RESULTS:In...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Agrawal R,Shah P,Zebracki K,Sanabria K,Kohrman C,Kohrman AF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00