Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie
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The setting up of the so-called "decrees on perinatal safety" on October 1998 has been associated with many difficulties which were apparently related to the lack of beds for intensive care units, special care units and neonatal medicine. This led to a national survey. ⋯ Finally, the main deficit was not related to the number of beds but to the equipment and number of care-givers. The status of overseas departments and territories was particularly worrying.
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Whooping cough is a respiratory infection particularly severe for infants. The agents of the disease are the bacteria Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertussis. Before vaccination, the disease affected majority of the children. ⋯ They can be infected and contaminated infants are too young to be vaccinated. Clinical symptoms in adolescents and adults, previously vaccinated or infected, are very variable and for this reason biological diagnosis are now necessary to confirm the infection. These diagnostics are culture, PCR and serology.
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Case Reports
[Systemic infantile mastocytosis: about a case with respiratory and digestive involvement].
Systemic mastocytosis is rare in children and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation and infiltration of mast cells in different tissues. ⋯ Respiratory manifestations and nodular infiltration of the digestive tract are rare in systemic mastocytosis. The prognosis is conditioned by complications such as malignancy and the persistence of the disease till the adult age.
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Multicenter Study
[Multicentric study on neonatal medical pain management in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais].
The aim of this study was to describe pain management for newborn infants in neonatal intensive care units and neonatal units in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. ⋯ At the time of study, the interest in the pain of the physicians working in neonatal intensive care units and neonatal units was inadequate to guarantee an optimum management of pain in newborn infants. Physicians' approach remained heterogeneous.