An overview of the available objective monitoring tools and their effectiveness in the management of childhood asthma, as well as practical guidance on incorporating the tools into clinical practice.
Ingested button batteries are usually charged and quickly cause severe symptoms, but ingesting a discharged battery is very rare. Unspecific symptoms can complicate and delay diagnosis, risking long-term complications.
Children with preschool wheeze experience a significantly greater reduction in wheeze severity 4 hours after treatment with the oral corticosteroid prednisolone versus placebo.
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Ingested button batteries are usually charged and quickly cause severe symptoms, but ingesting a discharged battery is very rare. Unspecific symptoms can complicate and delay diagnosis, risking long-term complications.
APRV was used successfully in a child with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome after a falling injury, for whom prone positioning ventilation was contraindicated due to multiple fractures.
Septic pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombophlebitis, and acute osteomyelitis form a triad that is usually associated with trauma on long bones, but diagnosis is frequently delayed, risking life-threatening complications.
Worldwide, over 2 billion children under the age of 5 experience stunting, wasting, or are underweight. Malnutrition contributes to 45% of all deaths in this age group (approximately 3.1 million deaths) [1]. Poverty, food insecurity, suboptimal …
RSV is an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus that can cause mild clinical manifestations among adults, including rhinitis, cough, and fever, or progress to complications such as pneumonia and chronic heart and lung disease exacerbations, which …
Asthma is a common chronic childhood disease, affecting approximately one in fifteen children in the United States [ 1 ]. Characterized by airway inflammation, bronchospasm, and airflow obstruction, it presents with clinical symptoms such as …
In liver disease, there is derangement of appetite, digestion, absorption, assimilation, storage and metabolism of both macro and micronutrients. These derangements have an impact on mortality and morbidity associated with liver diseases. In …
In people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF), chronic bacterial colonization of the respiratory tract by opportunistic pathogens is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality [ 1 ]. Pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus or Pseudomonas …
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are previously recognized as non-pathogenic environmental bacteria, and the clinical significance of their associated diseases was neglected until the mid-twentieth century. Methodological advances in the …
RSV is an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus that can cause mild clinical manifestations among adults, including rhinitis, cough, and fever, or progress to complications such as pneumonia and chronic heart and lung disease exacerbations, which …
We aimed to describe differences in the epidemiology, management, and outcomes existing between centers located in countries which differ by geographical location and economic status during to post-pandemic bronchiolitis seasons. This was a …
