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https://read.qxmd.com/read/21357332/fever-and-antipyretic-use-in-children
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REVIEW
Janice E Sullivan, Henry C Farrar
Fever in a child is one of the most common clinical symptoms managed by pediatricians and other health care providers and a frequent cause of parental concern. Many parents administer antipyretics even when there is minimal or no fever, because they are concerned that the child must maintain a "normal" temperature. Fever, however, is not the primary illness but is a physiologic mechanism that has beneficial effects in fighting infection. There is no evidence that fever itself worsens the course of an illness or that it causes long-term neurologic complications...
March 2011: Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/10608376/differentiating-between-septic-arthritis-and-transient-synovitis-of-the-hip-in-children-an-evidence-based-clinical-prediction-algorithm
#22
COMPARATIVE STUDY
M S Kocher, D Zurakowski, J R Kasser
BACKGROUND: A child who has an acutely irritable hip can pose a diagnostic challenge. The purposes of this study were to determine the diagnostic value of presenting variables for differentiating between septic arthritis and transient synovitis of the hip in children and to develop an evidence-based clinical prediction algorithm for this differentiation. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the cases of children who were evaluated at a major tertiary-care children's hospital between 1979 and 1996 because of an acutely irritable hip...
December 1999: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume
https://read.qxmd.com/read/15280086/the-not-so-simple-process-of-sickle-cell-vasoocclusion
#23
REVIEW
Stephen H Embury
Traditional concepts of sickle cell disease as a monogenically inherited disorder that is understood completely on the basis of polymerization based pathophysiology are more simple that what clinical observations allow. Detailed explications of the determinants of polymerization can be counted, but these do not account for all aspects of sickle cell disease. Neither can all perturbations that count in the course of sickle cell disease be counted as determinants of polymerization. The polymerization based theory that has been extrapolated to describe clinical disease often is not identical to clinical reality...
March 2004: Microcirculation: the Official Journal of the Microcirculatory Society, Inc
https://read.qxmd.com/read/23439909/the-diagnosis-and-management-of-acute-otitis-media
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Allan S Lieberthal, Aaron E Carroll, Tasnee Chonmaitree, Theodore G Ganiats, Alejandro Hoberman, Mary Anne Jackson, Mark D Joffe, Donald T Miller, Richard M Rosenfeld, Xavier D Sevilla, Richard H Schwartz, Pauline A Thomas, David E Tunkel
This evidence-based clinical practice guideline is a revision of the 2004 acute otitis media (AOM) guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Academy of Family Physicians. It provides recommendations to primary care clinicians for the management of children from 6 months through 12 years of age with uncomplicated AOM. In 2009, the AAP convened a committee composed of primary care physicians and experts in the fields of pediatrics, family practice, otolaryngology, epidemiology, infectious disease, emergency medicine, and guideline methodology...
March 2013: Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20421261/patent-ductus-arteriosus-of-the-preterm-infant
#25
REVIEW
Shannon E G Hamrick, Georg Hansmann
A persistently patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants can have significant clinical consequences, particularly during the recovery period from respiratory distress syndrome. With improvement of ventilation and oxygenation, the pulmonary vascular resistance decreases early and rapidly, especially in very immature infants with extremely low birth weight (<1000 g). Subsequently, the left-to-right shunt through the ductus arteriosus (DA) is augmented, thereby increasing pulmonary blood flow, which leads to pulmonary edema and overall worsening of cardiopulmonary status...
May 2010: Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22048053/accuracy-and-precision-of-the-signs-and-symptoms-of-streptococcal-pharyngitis-in-children-a-systematic-review
#26
REVIEW
Nader Shaikh, Nithya Swaminathan, Emma G Hooper
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review to determine whether clinical findings can be used to rule in or to rule out streptococcal pharyngitis in children. STUDY DESIGN: Two authors independently searched MEDLINE and EMBASE. We included articles if they contained data on the accuracy of symptoms or signs of streptococcal pharyngitis, individually or combined into prediction rules, in children 3-18 years of age. RESULTS: Thirty-eight articles with data on individual symptoms and signs and 15 articles with data on prediction rules met all inclusion criteria...
March 2012: Journal of Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21323542/clinical-practice-streptococcal-pharyngitis
#27
REVIEW
Michael R Wessels
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February 17, 2011: New England Journal of Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21226577/a-placebo-controlled-trial-of-antimicrobial-treatment-for-acute-otitis-media
#28
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Paula A Tähtinen, Miia K Laine, Pentti Huovinen, Jari Jalava, Olli Ruuskanen, Aino Ruohola
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of antimicrobial treatment in children with acute otitis media remains controversial. METHODS: In this randomized, double-blind trial, children 6 to 35 months of age with acute otitis media, diagnosed with the use of strict criteria, received amoxicillin-clavulanate (161 children) or placebo (158 children) for 7 days. The primary outcome was the time to treatment failure from the first dose until the end-of-treatment visit on day 8. The definition of treatment failure was based on the overall condition of the child (including adverse events) and otoscopic signs of acute otitis media...
January 13, 2011: New England Journal of Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/23276435/fluid-and-electrolyte-management-of-very-low-birth-weight-infants
#29
REVIEW
William Oh
Recent advances in medical knowledge and technology have markedly improved the survival rates of very low birth weight infants. Optimizing the neuro-developmental outcomes of these survivors has become an important priority in neonatal care, which includes appropriate management for achieving fluid and electrolyte balance. This review focuses on the principles of providing maintenance fluid to these infants, including careful assessment to avoid excessive fluid administration that may increase the risk of such neonatal morbidities as necrotizing enterocolitis, patent ductus arteriosus, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)...
December 2012: Pediatrics and Neonatology
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