OBJECTIVES: To identify the annual prevalence of tracheostomized children over an 11-year span in Minnesota. Secondary objectives included decannulation and mortality rates. METHODS: Retrospective review from 2008 to 2018 of a pediatric home care company database that provides home care services for ≥95% of tracheostomized children in Minnesota. The study group was divided into 2 cohorts:…
Abstract. Although necrotizing enterocolitis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among preterm infants, its underlying pathophysiology is not fully understood. Gut dysbiosis, an…
Abstract. Despite the advancement of medical therapies in the care of the preterm neonate, in the management of short bowel syndrome and the control of…
A 3-week-old late preterm male infant weighing 3.9 kg presents to the emergency department with a 2-day history of forceful nonbloody, nonbilious emesis, and tachypnea.…
Abstract. Nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, and epistaxis are common presenting concerns in primary care clinics. Nasal disorders affect the quality of life for many children and…
A 37-year-old gravida 7, para 2-0-4-2 woman presented for outpatient consultation at 12 weeks’ gestation because of a history of myasthenia gravis (MG). After the…
A 9-month-old girl is brought by her parents for an initial pediatric dermatology consultation for presumed atopic dermatitis. The parents report subtle “hardening” of the…
A full-term female infant is transferred from an outside hospital at 3 days of age for further evaluation of a diffuse maculopapular and nodular rash…
Abstract. The incidence of diabetes in children and adolescents has increased during the past decades, with a 1.9% increase per year in type 1 diabetes…
Diana Montoya-Williams, MD, MSHP, is an attending neonatologist in the division of Neonatology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a physician scientist in CHOP’s PolicyLab,…
For the neurodevelopmentally vulnerable adolescent brain, any amount of alcohol use has risks and consequences and may lead to serious harm. Although overall rates of…
