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Mashup Score: 5
Decisions about staying home when sick should balance the risk of spreading a disease with children’s educational, social and mental health needs.
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Mashup Score: 1The Trauma of Malpractice Litigation - 2 day(s) ago
Dr X is a pediatric hospitalist, having finished his residency 3 years ago. In the past year, he had been involved in the care of a young child who had passed away unexpectedly, despite receiving adequate care. In the month after the child’s death, Dr X had felt immense grief…
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Mashup Score: 3Urinary Tract Infections in Children - 2 day(s) ago
Despite the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for the evaluation, treatment, and management of urinary tract infections (UTIs), UTI diagnosis and management remains challenging for clinicians. Challenges with acute UTI management stem from vague presenting signs and symptoms, diagnostic uncertainty, limitations in laboratory testing, and selecting appropriate antibiotic therapy in…
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Mashup Score: 8
There have been 57 confirmed measles cases associated with the shelter, but modeling shows that figure could have been significantly higher without quick work to vaccinate residents and investigate suspected cases.
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Mashup Score: 0A Case of Neonatal Encephalopathy - 2 day(s) ago
A 27-year-old gravida 3, para 2-0-0-0 woman, married to her cousin, presents at 37 weeks’ gestation with decreased fetal movement. Her 2 prior pregnancies had resulted in term deliveries but both infants died in the first week after birth following lethargy, encephalopathy, and respiratory failure. The cause of death in…
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Mashup Score: 1Ecchymotic Skin Lesions and Hand Edema in a 10-month-old Boy - 3 day(s) ago
A 10-month-old boy presents to the emergency department with a 24-hour history of worsening targetoid papules and plaques over the face, trunk, and limbs. Some of the older lesions have become ecchymotic in appearance, and his hands are swollen. The eruption is nonpruritic and nonpainful. The patient is otherwise clinically…
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Mashup Score: 16Conference preps pediatricians to advocate for child health issues in nation’s capital - 3 day(s) ago
The AAP Advocacy Conference culminated in meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for children’s online safety and access to emergency medical care.
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Mashup Score: 0Severe Influenza in Pregnancy: Neonatal Implications - 3 day(s) ago
A 35-year-old gravida 2, para 1 previously healthy pregnant woman at 30 2/7 weeks’ gestation was transferred from an outside hospital with influenza A pneumonia. The previous evening she presented to her local emergency department with cough, congestion, and worsening dyspnea. She was tachycardic, with a heart rate of 120…
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Mashup Score: 282024 Red Book created on ‘shoulders of the giants’ - 3 day(s) ago
The 33rd edition of the Red Book is out, with updates to every chapter that provide the latest clinical guidance on more than 200 childhood infectious diseases.
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Mashup Score: 0Nosocomial Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - 4 day(s) ago
Nosocomial infections are relatively common in the NICU. These infections increase morbidity and mortality, particularly in the smallest and most fragile infants. The impact of these infections on long-term outcomes and health-care costs is devastating. Worldwide efforts to decrease the incidence of nosocomial infections have focused on implementing specific prevention…
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The @CDCgov has released new guidance on preventing infections in schools. https://t.co/UNJDdL2ZA3.