1 Çukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, 01330, Adana, Turkey 2 Çukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division ...

Department of Pediatrics, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the clinical significance and prognosis of ...

Fluid therapy restores circulation by expanding extracellular fluid. However, a dispute has arisen regarding the nature of intravenous therapy for acutely ill children following the development of ...

Correspondence to Dr Vic Larcher, Consultant in Paediatrics and Clinical Ethics, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; larchv{at}gosh.nhs.uk Competence is ...

Aims: To determine, in sick neonates and children requiring admission to a hospital in the highlands of Papua New Guinea: (1) the incidence and severity of hypoxaemia; (2) the proportion with ...

AIM To assess the potential for administering catch up and scheduled immunisations during hospital admission. METHODS Immunisation status according to the child’s principal carer was checked against ...

Objective To study the impact of body mass index (BMI) SD score (SDS) improvement through lifestyle modification on metabolic risk and body composition over 12 months. Design Prospective cohort study.

Correspondence to: Associate Professor Susan Prescott School of Paediatrics and Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, PO Box D184, Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, WA 6840, ...

Objectives Deliberate overdose is a common cause for presentation to emergency departments in the UK, and paracetamol is by far the most common drug implicated in these presentations. 1 The national ...

Correspondence to Dr Tal Marom, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Zerifin 70300, Israel; ...

MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Royal Free & University College Medical School, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Richards MRC National Survey of Health and ...

Aims: To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. Methods: An all language literature search up to 2004.