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A protocolized handover process correlates with a sustained reduction in the number of errors for children being transferred to the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery

Protocolized Handover Process Sustainable for Reducing Errors

Improved handover process is sustainable for children being transferred to ICU after cardiac sx
Overall

Most Pediatricians Satisfied With Professional Responsibilities

Women, those without academic appointment are more likely to be working part time
Guidelines have been developed for the care of 2- to 5-year-old children with cystic fibrosis. The clinical practice guidelines were published online March 23 in Pediatrics.

Guidelines Developed for Preschoolers With Cystic Fibrosis

Recommendations relate to routine surveillance for lung disease, therapeutics, nutritional and GI care
Among U.S. high school athletes

Wrestling Wins for Most High School Athletic Skin Infections

Overall rate of skin infections is 2.27 per 100,000 athlete exposures; mostly bacterial and tinea
Physicians can help to identify and assist trafficking victims

AMA Encouraging Physicians to ID, Assist Victims of Trafficking

Physicians should be aware of warning signs such as bruises, cuts, scars; looking fearful or anxious
Intra-arterial chemotherapy appears to be promising for intraocular retinoblastoma

Intra-Arterial Chemo Promising for Intraocular Retinoblastoma

Global salvage achieved for 66 percent of all eyes across 12 single-arm cases series studies
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to ban most powdered medical gloves

FDA: Most Powdered Medical Gloves Should Be Banned in U.S.

Side effects include airway and wound inflammation, agency says
A rare case of immobility-induced hypercalcemia in an infant has been documented in a case report published online March 18 in Pediatrics.

Case Report: Immobility-Induced Hypercalcemia in Infant

Infant presented with fatigue, irritability, failure to gain weight after prolonged immobilization
A case before a state supreme court could potentially expose physicians to large fines based on a legal technicality relating to what they should have known

Case Before Supreme Court May Expose Doctors to Large Fines

Case surrounds whether liability under IFPA can be based on what a practice should have known
For infantile hemangiomas

Propranolol for Hemangiomas Doesn’t Impair Infant Growth

Only four of 76 patients' growth curves dropped off more than 20 percentiles during therapy