News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: November 4, 2014
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 30, 2014
Key clinical point: Pediatric hospitalists are treating more acutely ill children than ever before.
Major finding: Nearly half of pediatric hospit...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 30, 2014
Key clinical point: Regardless of stage, clinicians are doing more postdiagnosis imaging of thyroid cancer patients than they were in the 1990s.
M...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 30, 2014
Key clinical point: Regardless of stage, clinicians are doing more postdiagnosis imaging of thyroid cancer patients than they were in the 1990s.
M...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 30, 2014
Key clinical point: Animal-related trauma is a significant cause of morbidity in children.
Major finding: Nearly half of children admitted to the ...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 30, 2014
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 28, 2014
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 22, 2014
Key clinical point: Cranial nerve injury occurred in fewer than 5% of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy.
Major finding: About one-third o...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 21, 2014
Key clinical point: Length of hospital stay is associated with a bronchiolitis risk of admission score (BRAS).
Major finding: In infants with acut...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 21, 2014
Key clinical point: Bronchodilator use by young children hospitalized with bronchiolitis had no effect on duration of hospitalization.
Major findi...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 21, 2014
Key clinical point: Prolonged hemodynamic instability after carotid artery stenting is associated with increased incidence of TIA, but not MI or d...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 15, 2014
Key clinical point: Outcomes of carotid stenting were similar whether performed by surgeons or interventionalists.
Major finding: Adjusted multiva...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 15, 2014
Key clinical point: Routine preoperative ultrasound is not reliable for predicting the success of arteriovenous fistulas.
Major finding: Among pat...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 14, 2014
Key clinical point: Bone health promotion in children should encourage physical activity in girls and optimization of calcium intake in boys.
Maj...
News Author: Doug Brunk Publish date: October 13, 2014
Key clinical point: Blood cultures in children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are not free of harm.
Major finding: Children in the blood ...