Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2012
Impact of physicians' characteristics on the admission risk among children visiting a pediatric emergency department.
This study aimed to assess the impact of physicians' gender, work experience, and training on hospitalization among children visiting a pediatric emergency department (ED). ⋯ Individual physician's admissions proportions vary widely. Providers' experience and specialization in pediatric emergency medicine are weak predictors of admission, whereas gender was not associated.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2012
Case ReportsInterpeduncular fossa lipoma: a novel cause of oculomotor nerve palsy in childhood.
Oculomotor nerve palsy is a rare finding in children and, when reported, is most frequently either congenital or acquired from postnatal trauma, infection, aneurysm, or migraine. Intracranial lipomas also represent an uncommon finding in children, and although their development is not completely understood, they are now thought to be congenital in nature. Here, we describe the case of a 23-month-old boy presenting to the emergency department with left-sided, complete, pupil-involving oculomotor nerve palsy. ⋯ In addition, we did not find any reports of intracranial lipomas as a cause of complete, pupil-involving oculomotor palsy, although they are known to cause other cranial nerve pathology. We conclude that intracranial lipomas, although rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis for oculomotor nerve palsy in children. Further investigation is needed to determine the true incidence of this association.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2012
Case ReportsPosttraumatic pulmonary pseudocysts as a manifestation of child abuse.
Posttraumatic pulmonary pseudocysts (PTPPCs) are air-, fluid-, or blood-filled spaces in the lung parenchyma. They are rare findings and are associated with substantial blunt force trauma to the chest. ⋯ There has not been a case of PTPPC reported in the child abuse literature. This case report describes a child with a PTPPC secondary to inflicted abusive injury.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2012
Profile of patients visiting the pediatric emergency service in an Egyptian university hospital.
The emergency department (ED) is an essential component of the medical service offered in any hospital. Yet, the published information about patients' profile and utilization of emergency services in both developing and developed countries is scarce. ⋯ Appropriate and ongoing data collection and analysis could guide more efficient utilization of pediatric emergency services to achieve better outcomes.
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The authors created a computer-based, interactive atlas of pediatric chest radiographs to facilitate (1) understanding of normal variants and (2) interpretation of pediatric chest radiographs in the acute setting. ⋯ Improved interpretation of pediatric chest radiographs in the acute setting may be facilitated by a comprehensive, computer-based, pediatric chest atlas.