Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2022
A Workplace Procedure Training Cart to Augment Pediatric Resident Procedural Learning.
Our primary aim was to describe pediatric residents' use of a workplace procedural training cart. An exploratory aim was to examine if the cart associated with increased resident procedural experiences with real patients. ⋯ A workplace procedural training cart was used mostly by pediatric interns. The cart cultivated residents' perceived confidence in real procedures but was not used by all residents or influenced residents' procedural behaviors in the pediatric emergency department.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2022
What Are We Missing?: Evaluating an Intimate Partner Violence Screening Program in a Pediatric Emergency Department.
Our study sought to explore and assess pediatric emergency department (ED) health care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding an existing intimate partner violence (IPV) screening program 4 years after initial implementation. ⋯ Our study indicates that more research must be done to assess root causes of provider barriers to IPV screening in pediatric ED settings because trainings and a long-standing program do not seem to be changing screening practices. Addressing these issues may lead to truly sustainable and effective IPV screening programs in pediatric ED settings.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2022
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Examining Emerging Data and Identifying Key Knowledge Gaps.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a syndrome of abnormal immune response after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection that can result in organ dysfunction including severe cardiovascular compromise in children. Increased evidence supports a clinical and laboratory profile in MIS-C distinct from Kawasaki disease, with MIS-C typically occurring in older children and with more prominent gastrointestinal and neurologic symptoms, as well as increased inflammation, lymphopenia, and cardiac injury on laboratory testing. However, high-level evidence regarding best practices for treatment and long-term outcomes in MIS-C is limited.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2022
Seasonal Trends in Pediatric Respiratory Illnesses: Using Google Trends to Inform Precision Outreach.
Google Trends is an emerging tool that allows users to analyze search queries, showing when certain topics are searched most often. Multiple studies have compared Google Trends to epidemiological data of health conditions, but pediatric specific illnesses have not yet been investigated. An association between disease incidence and Google Trends data may help facilitate precision outreach in the form of digital resources and promotion. We sought to examine the relationship between Google Trends data and measured incidence of bronchiolitis and croup. ⋯ Google Trends correlates with both laboratory-based and hospital incidence of respiratory viral diagnoses. This novel data source has implications for tracking disease epidemiology, tailoring health information, and providing precision outreach tools to patients and their families.
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2022
Case ReportsPoint-of-Care Ultrasound to Evaluate the Acute Abdomen: A Case of Bowel Perforation After Unknown Single Magnet Ingestion.
We report the case of a 3-year-old boy who presented to the pediatric emergency department in undifferentiated shock with an acute abdomen. Point-of-care ultrasound revealed viscous perforation with a large amount of free fluid. Intraoperatively, a single magnet was discovered as the likely cause of bowel perforation and the resulting state of shock.