Experts discuss the various imaging modalities for children who require diagnostic workup beyond urine culture, as well as the consequences of overusing antibiotics and antibiotic route of administration.
Children from lower-income households are more likely to report recent childhood GI and respiratory illnesses but are less likely to miss any school days.
Continuous infusion of vancomycin, compared with intermittent infusions, was linked to earlier and improved attainment of target concentrations in infants.
Children who develop acute bacterial sinusitis secondary to viral upper respiratory infections (URIs) have higher symptom severity scores and more frequent URI episodes.
Hospitalization for vaccine-preventable infections occurs in more than 15 percent of pediatric solid organ transplant recipients in the first five years after surgery.
In pediatric patients aged 2-17 years, the live attenuated vaccine was less effective against influenza A/H1N1pdm09 compared with the inactivated vaccine.
The Area, Systemic features, Swelling, Eye, Tenderness Score shows reliability, and applicability for use of IV antibiotics in a child with cellulitis.
