The Role of “Smart” Infusion Pumps in Patient Safety
“Smart” infusion pumps are medication delivery devices that use a combination of computer technology and drug libraries to limit the potential for dosing errors. The evidence for their impact is…
Computerized Provider Order Entry and Patient Safety
Medication errors can lead to significant morbidity and mortality for patients. Children are particularly vulnerable to medication errors. A strategy for reducing medication errors and the harm resulting from these…
The Heart of Health Care
Behind the wall of silence in health care are the unanswered questions of parents whose children experienced harm at the hands of their caregivers. In an industry where information and…
Safe Pediatric Care Delivery
Brian R. Jacobs, MD, MS, FAAP, Guest Editor Max J. Coppes, MD, PhD, MBA, Guest Editor This is the second publication of The Pediatric Clinics of North America dedicated to…
Circumstances when Breastfeeding is Contraindicated
This article reviews risks of illness or exposures to breastfed infants. Galactosemia in an infant is a contraindication to breastfeeding. There are no medical conditions in the mother that are…
Maternal Medication, Drug Use, and Breastfeeding
This article reviews the necessary skills required for clinicians to make informed decisions about the use of medications in women who are breastfeeding. Even without specific data on certain medications,…
Nutritional Management of the Breastfeeding Dyad
Milk is successfully produced by mothers regardless of their nutritional status. Nevertheless, the concentrations of some nutrients, specifically vitamins A, D, B1, B2, B3, B6, and B12, fatty acids, and…
Donor Human Milk Banking and the Emergence of Milk Sharing
Donor human milk has emerged as the preferred substrate to feed extremely preterm infants, when mother’s own milk is unavailable. This article summarizes the clinical data demonstrating the safety, efficacy,…
“Breastfeeding” by Feeding Expressed Mother’s Milk
This article provides the pediatric community with a practical overview of milk expression and an update on the recent literature. Approaches for working mothers, preterm infants, critically ill infants, and…
Supporting Breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The translation of the evidence for the use of human milk (HM) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) into best practices, toolkits, policies and procedures, talking points, and parent…
