Validity of mass blood pressure screening in children.

abstract：:The oral absorption and elimination of quinidine in pediatric patients was studied. Single oral doses of quinidine sulfate were administered to 13 patients ranging in age from 4 to 22 years of age. Serum quinidine concentration reached a peak within 30 minutes to two hours after drug administration. The serum half-lif...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Szefler SJ,Pieroni DR,Gingell RL,Shen DD

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians have been faced with much publicity and contradictory scientific evidence regarding a recently described condition termed pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS). It has been proposed that children with PANDAS experience tics, obsessive-compulsive beh...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kurlan R,Kaplan EL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2000, the American Diabetes Association issued recommendations for type 2 diabetes mellitus screening among children. They recommended testing children > or =10 years of age who have a body mass index (BMI) of >85th percentile for age and at least 2 other risk factors (family history of type 2 diabetes, h...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Drobac S,Brickman W,Smith T,Binns HJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical to providing cancer therapy to children in rural areas is finding dependable sources of therapy near the patients' homes. In this study, comparison was made of 668 visits by 24 patients to nearby private practitioners, who carried out 70% of the therapy, with 712 visits by 22 other patients for whom all care ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kisker CT,Strayer F,Wong K,Clarke W,Strauss R,Tannous R,Janco R,Spevak J

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mother and daughter with Campylobacter jejuni-associated hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) are discussed. The mother was hospitalized with bloody diarrhea and HUS; C jejuni was isolated from her stool. The 2-year-old daughter had been admitted five days prior to her mother with HUS following a three-day prodrome of vo...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chamovitz BN,Hartstein AI,Alexander SR,Terry AB,Short P,Katon R

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with a poorly differentiated lymphoma developed varicella while being treated with maintenance chemotherapeutic agents. He received a transfusion of nonirradiated leukocytes from 1 unit of whole blood donated by a healthy volunteer who had recently recovered from varicella. The clinical course of varicella was...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Betzhold J,Hong R

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite high per capita health care expenditure, the United States has crude infant survival rates that are lower than similarly developed nations. Although differences in vital recording and socioeconomic risk have been studied, a systematic, cross-national comparison of perinatal health care systems is lac...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Thompson LA,Goodman DC,Little GA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one patients with chronic sinusitis who were referred for an allergy evaluation were evaluated for immunologic competence including assessment of quantitative serum immunoglobulin levels, IgG subclass levels, and response to pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae vaccines. In addition to chronic sinus disease, ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shapiro GG,Virant FS,Furukawa CT,Pierson WE,Bierman CW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet syndrome) is rare in children and is regularly associated with underlying malignancies or inflammtory diseases. A 5-year-old girl with glycogen storage disease type Ib, neutropenia, and recurrent infections developed characteristic skin eruption of Sweet syndrome after 2 ye...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Garty BZ,Levy I,Nitzan M,Barak Y

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children and adolescents who have systemic hypertension may be at risk for complications when exercise causes their blood pressures to rise even higher. The purpose of this statement is to make recommendations concerning the athletic participation of individuals with hypertension using the 26th Bethesda Conference on ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors：

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early sexual intercourse among American adolescents represents a major public health problem. Although early sexual activity may be caused by a variety of factors, the media are believed to play a significant role. In film, television, and music, sexual messages are becoming more explicit in dialogue, lyrics, and beha...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Public Education, American Academy of Child and Adolescent psychiatry, American Psychological Association.

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are not enough pediatric neurologists to meet the many needs of pediatric neurology patients. The Hospital for Sick Children has responded by expanding the nursing role in the pediatric neurology outpatient clinic. The objective of this study was to examine the use of a telephone nursing line in this ho...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Letourneau MA,MacGregor DL,Dick PT,McCabe EJ,Allen AJ,Chan VW,MacMillan LJ,Golomb MR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maintaining adequate organ blood flow is the target of vasopressor treatment, but the impact of these measures on cerebral perfusion has not yet been evaluated systematically in a randomized, blinded, clinical trial. OBJECTIVES:To explore the effects on brain hemodynamics of 2 different inotropic agents use...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Pellicer A,Valverde E,Elorza MD,Madero R,Gayá F,Quero J,Cabañas F

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children who are alleged to have been sexually abused often go through gruelling interrogations to relate their experiences to adults and, even then, most are not viewed as reliable sources of information. The Victim Sensitive Interviewing Program (VSIP) was initiated to decrease the number of interviews endured by a ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Jaudes PK,Martone M

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To obtain reliable and accurate predictions of adult stature in white American children who are free of disease without using skeletal age. DESIGN:Apply a modification of the Roche-Wainer-Thissen stature prediction model to a sample of white American children. SETTING:Longitudinal data (every 6 months...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Khamis HJ,Roche AF

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many studies have noted that uninsured children have poorer access and quality of health care than do insured children, few studies have been able to demonstrate the direct benefits of providing health insurance to previously uninsured children. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP),...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Szilagyi PG,Dick AW,Klein JD,Shone LP,Zwanziger J,McInerny T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bronchiolitis is a major cause of infant morbidity and contributes to millions of dollars in health care costs. Care guidelines may cut costs by reducing unnecessary resource utilization. Through the implementation of a guideline, we sought to reduce unnecessary resource utilization and improve the value of c...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Akenroye AT,Baskin MN,Samnaliev M,Stack AM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was done to assess the necessity of hospital care for poisoning episodes in children less than 5 years old and to evaluate the impact of a regional poison center on the use of emergency rooms for pediatric poisonings. Of the pediatric patients seen in emergency rooms for acute poisonings, 63% did not require t...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chafee-Bahamon C,Lovejoy FH Jr

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that giving newly born preterm infants sustained lung inflation (SLI) may decrease their need for mechanical ventilation (MV) and improve their respiratory outcomes. METHODS:We randomly assigned infants born at 25 weeks 0 days to 28 weeks 6 days of gestation to receive SLI (25 cm H2O for 15 ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lista G,Boni L,Scopesi F,Mosca F,Trevisanuto D,Messner H,Vento G,Magaldi R,Del Vecchio A,Agosti M,Gizzi C,Sandri F,Biban P,Bellettato M,Gazzolo D,Boldrini A,Dani C,SLI Trial Investigators.

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the epidemiology of foreign-body ingestions (FBIs) of children <6 years of age who were treated in US emergency departments from 1995 to 2015. METHODS:We performed a retrospective analysis using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for children <6 years of age who were tr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Orsagh-Yentis D,McAdams RJ,Roberts KJ,McKenzie LB

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary hyperlipidemia is a common laboratory finding in children with nephrotic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, and hypothyroidism. However, clinical signs of hyperlipidemia are extremely rare in childhood. We report on an 11-year-old girl who presented with a disseminated yellow papulomatous rash on the lower limbs a...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dötsch J,Zepf K,Schellmoser S,Rascher W,Dörr HG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired respiratory illness in the adolescent population. Stevens-Johnson syndrome is an extrapulmonary manifestation that has been associated with M. pneumoniae infections. Three adolescent males presented within a 1-month period with M. pneumoniae respiratory ill...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ravin KA,Rappaport LD,Zuckerbraun NS,Wadowsky RM,Wald ER,Michaels MM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with lung injury in preterm infants. In these infants, weaning from synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation may be delayed by their inability to cope with increased respiratory loads. The addition of pressure support to synchronized intermittent mandator...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Reyes ZC,Claure N,Tauscher MK,D'Ugard C,Vanbuskirk S,Bancalari E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine factors that would predict the development of subglottic stenosis (SGS) and tracheomalacia (TM) in preterm infants. The utility of a semiquantitative measurement of airway dimensions was assessed in relation to signs of airway complications. We also sought to determine from a high-risk...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Downing GJ,Kilbride HW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with homozygous sickle cell anemia is the youngest known to have died from acute splenic sequestration crisis. A cord blood screening program might have prevented this infant's death. ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Walterspiel JN,Rutledge JC,Bartlett BL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine complaints for which children were referred to a pediatric rheumatology service and to determine whether there are specific complaints that are more likely to indicate the presence of chronic arthritis or chronic, systemic inflammatory disease. METHODS:A retrospective chart review of 414 children ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McGhee JL,Burks FN,Sheckels JL,Jarvis JN

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant has a massive intracranial hemorrhage. She is neurologically devastated and ventilator-dependent. The prognosis for pulmonary or neurologic recovery is bleak. The physicians and parents face a choice: withdraw the ventilator and allow her to die or perform a tracheotomy? The parents cling to hope for recover...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Blumenthal-Barby JS,Loftis L,Cummings CL,Meadow W,Lemmon M,Ubel PA,McCullough L,Rao E,Lantos JD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of selective nontreatment of extremely premature, critically ill, or malformed infants among all infant deaths in a level III intensive care nursery (ICN) and to determine the reasons documented by neonatologists for their decisions to withdraw or withhold life support. METHODS:Thi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wall SN,Partridge JC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Circumcision is a common neonatal surgical procedure routinely performed without the use of anesthesia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of topical lidocaine cream as an anesthetic for circumcision. METHODS:Thirty newborns were studied in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-c...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Weatherstone KB,Rasmussen LB,Erenberg A,Jackson EM,Claflin KS,Leff RD

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to determine the impact of different volume-targeted levels on the work of breathing and to investigate whether a level that reduced the work of breathing below that experienced during ventilatory support without volume targeting could be determined. METHODS:The transdiaphr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Patel DS,Sharma A,Prendergast M,Rafferty GF,Greenough A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00