Pediatric patients self-presenting with injuries consistent with major trauma typically have external signs of injury, notably boggy swelling to the head, abdominal bruising, and thigh swelling, according to a study presented at theEuropean Emergency Medicine Congress, held from Oct. 13 to 16 in Cop...
. This result indicates the use of first generation TRK inhibitor therapies, with recent regulatory approvals, that have exemplary response rates (75%) and are generally well tolerated by patients [41]. Although the patient has no evidence of disease following gross total resection and treatment w...
Limbic and primal portions of brain have a different vasculature. So when using a quick inhalational anesthetic, the primal part of the brain will wake up faster than the logical part of the brain. The net result is pretty much a "wild animal". As patients get older, the entire brain wa...
Typically, deaths have occurred when prescriptions for chloral hydrate were not clear, or when untrained individuals, either staff or parents, were involved. This all proves that one who does not know about medi...
These large increases and the observed changes in the proportion of hospitalizations of male patients, patients with bulimia nervosa, and patients with other eating disorders have implications for health system capacity and service provision. Previous international research has reported increases in eating ...
Sedated patients typically receive continuous IV fluids both prior to and during the examination. As a result, the bladder may become quite full and in small children, as well as in children with pelvic neoplasms, excreted FDG in a very full bladder can obscure areas of interest and concern,...
To be included in this evaluation patients had to have had their GT removed. Age was at the time of initial GT placement. IQR: Interquartile range; GT: gastrostomy tube. Empty CellGastrocutaneous Fistula Closure Required (n = 11)No Gastrocutaneous Fistula (n = 21)p-value Age, months –...
A Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) research team has found that pediatric patients with sessile osteochondroma have a higher risk of having lower extremity deformities.Osteochondroma, a benign tumor characterized by an outgrowth of bone
Asthma, which occurs in adult and pediatric patients, is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by an obstruction of airflow. Among children and adolescents aged 5-17 years, asthma accounts for a loss of 10 million school days annually and costs caretakers $726.1 million per...