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.
For many PICO questions, the literature review failed to identify sufficient data to develop strong recommendations for children with septic shock or other sepsis-associated organ dysfunction.
One in three children are prescribed antibiotics at children’s hospitals, and 25.9% prescribed antibiotics for infectious use are receiving at least one suboptimal antibiotic
4CMedB, a new multi-antigen vaccine designed to control group B meningococcal disease, had no effect on carriage of disease-causing meningococci in adolescents.
During the period from 2010 to 2016, parents of children from low-income households were more likely to report recent childhood GI and respiratory illnesses than parents with a higher income.
The DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB vaccine has safety profile consistent with licensed comparator vaccines and has been included in the federal Vaccines for Children program.
Updated recommendations for the use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine have been developed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Nebulized normal saline, which is often used as a placebo in clinical trials evaluating therapies for acute viral bronchiolitis, may be an active treatment for this condition.
There are no major differences in pregnancy outcomes for women with HIV related to receipt of protease inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, or integrase strand transfer inhibitors.
The FDA has approved fidaxomicin for the treatment of Clostridioides difficile-associated diarrhea in adult and pediatric patients aged 6 months and older.
In an observational cohort study, details are presented for an outbreak of enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) neurological disease in children who presented to a Colorado hospital for treatment.
