BACKGROUND Print Section Listen With medicine’s increasing capabilities, situations arise in which possible interventions will not serve the patient’s or the family’s goals of care. Under such circumstances, the decision…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen In the United States, as many as 1% of all pediatric visits to emergency departments during the summer months are for the treatment of human or…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Infant botulism, the most common form of botulism encountered in the United States, has a unique pathogenesis. Unlike food-borne botulism, which results from the ingestion of…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen The care of children with medical complexity (CMC) is an increasingly central component of pediatric hospital medicine. While there is no consensus definition for this population,…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Bites and envenomations account for 3% of phone calls to poison control centers.1 In North America, venomous animals vary by specific region and include varied terrestrial…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen In the United States, hypothermia should be a preventable disease, yet between 1999 and 2011, an average of 1301 people per year die of excessive natural…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Heat disorders such as heat exhaustion and heatstroke result from a failure of the body’s regulatory mechanisms to maintain a constant body temperature. Individuals at the…
LEAD Print Section Listen Lead is a highly toxic metal, and exposure to it can produce a wide range of adverse health effects.1,2 It is a soft, pliable metal that…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Fire-related injuries constitute a major health hazard in the United States. It is estimated there is a civilian fire death every 175 minutes, and a civilian…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Drug withdrawal is a physiologic response to an effectively lowered drug concentration in a patient tolerant to the drug in question. Withdrawal results in a predictable…
