Debora Porter

Data sharing source https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)01121-0/fulltext?rss=yes

To evaluate in a pre-planned secondary analysis of our parent randomized controlled trial predictors of intensive care admission in infants with bronchiolitis and analyze if these predictors are equally robust for children receiving high-flow or standard-oxygen. source https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)01122-2/fulltext?rss=yes

You may have heard there is a nationwide shortage of antibiotics and over-the-counter medications formulated especially for children this fall. Lisa Mulcahy explains why these medicines parents depend on to help their sick kids feel better are in short supply: The main reason: Kids are simply getting sick more often. “What I’m seeing is that kids didn’t get sick as much over the past couple of years because of masking and social distancing,” says Meghan Martin, MD, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. “Now, it’s like they’re playing catch-up — getting sick multiple times.” For example, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that more than 2 million kids under the age of 5 get outpatient treatment for RSV every fall and winter. This year’s numbers are expected to soar much higher. We can already see it in action: In November 2021, a little more than 18,000 patients were diagnosed with RSV in the United State...

  Two years ago this week, the United States lost 18,508 people in 7 days to COVID-19. (Weekly deaths from SARS-CoV-2 would reach a pandemic peak a month later at 23,366, for an average of 3,338 per day.) A year later, with COVID vaccines and boosters widely available, 9,572 Americans succumbed to the infection the week of December 12, 2021. Just last week, the CDC COVID Data Tracker counted 2,981 deaths over the previous 7-day period (on average, that’s 425 dying from COVID-19 every day). We seem to be in a better place at the end of 2022, mostly due to high overall public immunity resulting from effective vaccines and natural infections. But we’re not out of the woods yet. With new cases of influenza and RSV still slamming clinics and hospitals, COVID-19 infections are rising as predicted after the recent Thanksgiving holiday and two weeks to go until Christmas, The New York Times reports : Conditions are worsening across the country, with reported cases and hospitali...

In South Korea, 67.5% of infants are bottle fed and at the age of 18 months up to 82% fall asleep with a bottle without proper care for oral hygiene (6, 7). bottle- or breastmilk-feeding to sleep increase the risk for dental caries (8), sleep disorders (9), otitis media (10), and childhood wheezing (1). source https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)01116-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Cleats by T Lewis and Michael Fry ( GoComics.com )             source http://www.thepediablog.com/2022/12/11/sunday-funnies-535/

JUTLAND II Breath of the Seasons from Jonas Høholt on Vimeo : The countless hours spent on locations made me see and feel the difference of all four seasons. It opened my eyes to how similar nature actually is to humans; As nature takes a single breath all four seasons play before our eyes until she’s ready for the next breath and it all starts over again. Energy is everywhere and nothing is at a standstill.     source http://www.thepediablog.com/2022/12/10/cool-video-of-the-week-536/