ENTEROSTOMY TUBE FEEDING Print Section Listen If the gastrointestinal tract is functioning adequately, enteral nutrition is preferable to parenteral nutrition in the child with medical complexity. When compared with parenteral…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Children with severe neurologic impairment comprise a diverse group from an etiological perspective. Yet despite this diversity, there are predictable commonalities in many of the comorbidities…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Children with medical complexity are growing in number in children’s hospitals. They are at the highest risk for medical errors1,2 and for readmission after discharge.3 A…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Under normal homeostatic conditions, the human body is at a constant balance between clot formation and destruction. Physiologic hemostasis occurs as a result of a complex…
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…
