urgent medical care is necessary. While most allergy-related care occurs in a doctor's office, severe reactions require immediate attention.Children tend to have more food allergies than adults, but many outgrow them as they age. Adults are more likely to be allergic to pollen than young childr...
urgent carelength of stayalbuterolmetered-dose inhalerMDIObjectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate ordering of albuterol via metered-dose inhaler with spacer (MDI-spacer), length of stay (LOS), and 72-hour return rates before and after publication of an internally developed pediatric...
Child trauma represents 25 – 40% of trauma center patients and are the main cause of death between the ages of 1 year and 14 years, accounting for about half of the fatalities in this age group [7, 15, 25, 28, 31,44]. Trauma in children differs in many ways from that seen in a...
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Although the role of emergency departments (EDs) may seem clear by its title, U.S EDs are overcrowded with patients presenting nonurgent symptoms. A significant population of nonurgent ED users are pediatric patients presenting nonspecific upper respiratory symptoms and uncomplicated colds. Findings ...
(e.g., simple blood tests, radiography, andnebulizertreatment for acute asthma); a new challenge for the pediatric medical home is the utilization by parents ofurgent careclinics for common illnesses such as ear pain,coughand sore throat. More serious acute illness is treated inemergency ...
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care, no specific therapy is linked to the ANHL04B1 study. Instead, its aim is to collect diagnostic, treatment, and outcome data on these rare diseases in children and adolescents. Meanwhile, as new therapeutics are continually tested in adults, it is likely that extrapolation from these ...
Conclusions: Children identified as having poor asthma control using the pediatric ATAQ instrument had significantly higher rates of asthma-related hospitalizations, ER or urgent care visits, and doctor visits than those with good control. This asthma control measure may be useful in identifying childre...
care, no specific therapy is linked to the ANHL04B1 study. Instead, its aim is to collect diagnostic, treatment, and outcome data on these rare diseases in children and adolescents. Meanwhile, as new therapeutics are continually tested in adults, it is likely that extrapolation from these ...