November 13, 2024

AHA/AAP Update Pediatric Drowning Response Protocols

When respiratory arrest is corrected by rescue breathing that interrupts the drowning process, the death rate is 44% compared to 93% when full CPR is needed—a stark difference highlighting the critical importance of early intervention in pediatric drowning cases.

Conexiant

November 04, 2024

New UTI Guidelines Reveal Major Evidence Gaps

Despite reviewing 914 articles, an international panel of 54 experts could only make 6 clear evidence-based recommendations for UTI management.

Conexiant

October 31, 2024

New TBI Guidelines Add Biomarker Screening

New ACS guidelines establish rapid VTE prophylaxis timelines and introduce validated blood-based biomarkers GFAP and UCH-L1 that could eliminate unnecessary CT scans in mild TBI cases.

Conexiant

October 29, 2024

New Data Challenges Pediatric Sinusitis Treatment Guidelines

A JAMA review revealed that only 26% of pediatric ABRS patients treated with placebo required subsequent antibiotic therapy, prompting questions about current guidelines recommending first-line antibiotic use in children with sinusitis.

Conexiant

September 04, 2023

Transforming Toast with Tech: Modernizing Ketogenic Therapy

For centuries, dietary manipulation, including fasting, has been used for the treatment of epilepsy. In the early 1920s, physicians at Mayo Clinic discovered that a low carbohydrate diet provided similar effects to fasting and coined the term “ketogenic diet,” which is still in use today. Ketogenic therapy (KT) is a diet with high fat, low carbohydrate and adequate protein intake. The KT program at the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s is a robust clinical program staffed by experienced dietitians, psychologists, pharmacists and epileptologists

Phoenix Children's Medical Connection

April 21, 2023

Benevis Spotlights Diversity in Dentistry and Dental Health Disparities this Minority Health Month

Benevis Spotlights Diversity in Dentistry

Inside Dentistry

June 15, 2023

Eisenmenger Syndrome & Pulmonary Hypertension in Congenital Heart Disease

Dr. Alexander Ellis describes the origin of Eisenmenger syndrome and disease specific therapies for congenital heart patients.

Sentara

September 28, 2023

Screening Clinical Trial Points the Way to Treatments Informed by Genomic Sequencing

A screening clinical trial underway at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and other centers across the U.S. will take the next step toward determining the effectiveness of cancer treatments informed by genomic sequencing of the tumor.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

August 25, 2023

New ADA guideline recommends acetaminophen, NSAIDs to manage pain in pediatric patients

The guideline is available in the September issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association.

ADA News