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May 13, 2021
Violence-related medical visits open the door for early intervention
A substantial number of kids visit a medical professional each year in the wake of exposure to violence, presenting physicians with an opportunity to treat and assist patients and stave off further physical, mental, and social consequences, researchers found.
Between cases of family maltreatment, peer assault, sex crimes, and community violence, kids and teens experience high rates of assault and violence, prompting visits to health professionals, emergency departments (EDs), pediatricians, family physicians, and social health services, David Finkelhor, PhD, and Heather Turner, PhD, and Deirdre LaSelva, MA, of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, explained in
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May 10, 2021
Is overuse of high-flow nasal cannula therapy to blame?
From 2010-2019, the proportion of children admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for bronchiolitis doubled, an increase that was accompanied by a seven-fold increase in the use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV). Despite these increases, however, the rates of invasive mechanical ventilation did not change during the same period, researchers found.
Bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory illness in young kids, making up nearly 20% of U.S. hospitalizations in children less than 2 years of age. However, as interest in NIV and particularly high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy has grown in recent years, care patterns for pediatric bronchiolitis seem to be shifting, with drops in hospitalization rates and simultaneous increases in ICU admission. And, as Jonathan H. Pelletier, MD, of the Department of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and coll